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"Hallo! there," shouted Joe, in a voice that would have been creditable to a boatswain, "come on deck if ye don't want to be drownded." "Hooroo!" added Malone, "we're goin' to the bottom! Look alive wid ye." "Ay, an' bring up the childers," yelled Mrs Lynch. "Don't lave wan o' thim below." Of course, the poor emigrants were not slow to obey these startling orders.
In 1875 he succeeded the Right Hon. Mr. Childers, as second commissioner under the Prince Edward Island Land Purchase Act. He was nominated as one of the arbitrators in the Ontario and North-West Boundary Commission, but did not live long enough to act in that capacity.
"A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift;" so ethereal, so bird-like, that it is no wonder that the horse about whom those old story-tellers lied so stoutly, telling of his running a mile in a minute, was called Flying Childers. The roses in Mrs. Pfeiffer's garden were hardly out of flower when I lunched with her at her pretty villa at Putney. There I met Mr. Browning, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mrs.
The Government was checked, however, in its policy in the Transvaal, and Mr. Childers' action in regard to the Suez Canal. Mr. Gladstone attended, in March, the celebration of the inauguration of the National Liberal party, predicting for it a useful and brilliant future, if it remained faithful to its time-honored principles and traditions.
These were, of course, drenched with water, but had for the most part remained firm in their places. They now pulled round to the spot where Frank and Ruthven were awaiting them. "Childers must have been pretty nearly done," Frank said. "He must be lying in the bottom of the boat." Childers gave a smile of pleasure as his schoolfellows jumped on board.
It was found by the Financial Relations Commission that Ireland contributed a revenue in excess of her relative capacity. Mr. Childers, in his draft report, suggested that practical steps might possibly be taken to give Ireland relief or afford her equitable compensation in three different ways
Bounderby put in with a loud laugh. 'No, by the Lord Harry! Nor I! 'Her father always had it in his head, resumed Childers, feigning unconsciousness of Mr. Bounderby's existence, 'that she was to be taught the deuce-and-all of education. How it got into his head, I can't say; I can only say that it never got out.
They could get thirty or forty yards, but felt sure that they would be able to render but little assistance to Childers, and in fact scarcely liked to round the point alone. For some time they debated the question, the sea every minute rising and pushing them farther and farther from the point. "Look here, Frank," Ruthven said at last; "you are not sure you can carry me.
But I didn't know So you've started in the engineering school at the University of Washington," Saxton was purring. "Have you met Gid Childers there son of old Senator Childers charming people." "I've seen him. He has a Stutz no, his is the Mercer," sighed Milt. He hated himself for it, but he couldn't quite keep the awe out of his voice. People with Mercers Claire seemed to be trying to speak.
Childers also said, 'By Jove, old Fitz knocks spots out of 'em every time, but I don't know what he meant. I'm trying to learn to talk like Childers. When I can do that, I shall buy a tie-pin like Fitzmaurice's, only mine will be paste. Streater's is paste; he's another nice man." "He certainly is. In fact, Margery, you really are not particular enough about the company you keep.
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