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Another moment, and a wild cheer from the boys announced that the fish was safe in the canoe. "We're entitled to dinner now, father," said Dan, laughing. "Not a bit of it, you lazy boys; that fish is only big enough for the girls. We want something for the men and child'n. Be off again."
It fell with a bursting squeak, and retired in grumpy silence to ruminate over the dire consequences of a too earnest gaze in the face of a child. "Well done, child'n!" cried John Adams. "Sarves him right. Come, now, to grub, all of you." Even though the Pitcairn children had been disobedient by nature, they would have obeyed that order with alacrity.
"Iss sur, they are," replied Trevarrow, in the quiet tone that was peculiar to him; "but, thank God, we do manage to live, though there are some of us with a lot o' child'n as finds it hard work. "I suppose that you have frequent changes of fortune?" said Oliver.
If it wasn't murder, it feels awful like it; an' yet I can't see that they could call it murder. If we hadn't done it he would certainly have killed both me an' Mr Young, for Matt never threatened without performin', and then he'd have gone mad an' done for the women an' child'n as well. No, it wasn't murder. It was necessity."
Die man here wid de dog, him say dat de child'n was play in de square of dis fort, an' one o' dem trow stone and broke a window. It was de son ob dis man what do it, an' him say he most awful sorry an' all de people sorry, so dey bring de dog to pay for de broken window." "I'm glad it's nothing worse," cried Stanley, much relieved.
"Sometimes I think child'n has too hard a time now, all the responsibility is put on to 'em, since they take the lead o' what to do an' what they want, and get to be so toppin' an' knowin'. 'Twas happier in the old days, when the fathers an' mothers done the rulin'." "They say things have changed," said Aunt Cynthy; "but staying right here, I don't know much of any world but my own world."
"Do you suppose," said the captain, who, being full of anxious thought was for the moment irascible, "do you suppose that I am a baby?" "Oh! dear no, sir. From appearances I should say you've bin weaned some little time only a penny, sir. A nice little gift for the missus, sir, if you ain't got no child'n."
First she used to make out to knit, a-layin' there, for the store, but her hands got crippled up with the rest of her; 't is the wust kind o' rheumatics there is. She had me go round to the neighborin' schools and say that if any of the child'n was backward an slow with their lessons to send 'em up to her.
I know I've fell f'm grace mo' d'n once, but I've done made my peace wid Him in dis here jail-house, suh, an' I ain't 'feared ter die ef I haf ter. I ain' got no wife ner child'n ter mo'n fer me, an' I'll die knowin' dat I've done my duty ter dem dat hi'ed me, an' trusted me, an' had claims on me.
He opened it and looked out. The sentinel instantly raised his carbine and ordered him to shut it. "Hullo! Silas, is that you?" cried Jake in surprise, but paying no attention to the threat, "I thought you had quit for Heaven durin' the last skrimidge wi' the Reds down in Kansas? Glad to see you lookin' so well. How's your wife an' the child'n, Silas?"
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