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"Aye, 'twas a terrible place for ye," replied the skipper. "I bes Dennis Nolan, skipper o' Chance Along; an' now I bes takin' ye to my granny, Mother Nolan, an' a grand, warm house. Ye'll have Father McQueen's own bed, for he bes away till June, an' a fire in the chimley all day." Her only answer was to gaze at him with a look of calm, faint interest for a moment and then close her eyes.
"Before this little company breaks up we will sing a hymn and hab a word ob prar. But we mus' use de right means in dis worl' an' conform ter de inexorable law ob de universe. Here's de law and dar's de gospel, and dey both have dar place. If a brick blow off a chimley it alus falls ter de groun'. Dat's one kin' ob law. Water runs down hill, dat's much de same kin' ob law.
"At exactly twenty-three minutes to six, sir," said the Sergeant, consulting his large silver watch, "I were sitting in my usual corner beside the chimley, sir, when in comes Grimes like a thunder-cloud. Calls for a pint of ale in a tankard. Tom draws pint which Tom is the landlord, sir. 'Buy anything at the sale, Mr.
He said something of the duty of my attending the evening service; but added with a causticity natural to him, that "in troth, if folk couldna keep their legs still, but wad needs be couping the creels ower through-stanes, as if they wad raise the very dead folk wi' the clatter, a kirk wi' a chimley in't was fittest for them."
But, Tammas, if a a minister was fond o' a particular flower say a rose and you destroyed it by an accident, when he wasna looking, what would you do?" "I would gie him another rose for't." "But if you didna want him to ken you had meddled wi't on his chimley, what would you do?" "I would put the new rose on the chimley, and he would never ken the differ."
I'm sure I never wish to see a choicer half-dozen of hams than he's got there in his chimley; and the cider I tasted was a very pretty drop, indeed; none could desire a prettier cider." "They be for the love and the stalled ox both. Ah, the greedy martels!" said grandfather James. "Well, may-be they be.
My companion arose and kicked together the logs in the fireplace. This fireplace was one of the great room's comforts as well as ornaments. The logs leaped into much accession of flame, and crackled into sparks, and these went gossiping up the mighty chimney, their little fiery voices making a low, soft roaring like the talk of bees. "This chimley draws plenty successful," commented my friend.
They took the hint, and after they were all inside, Sandytop closed the door and the shutters of the unglazed windows. "Thar's my shanty," said Buffle, as they neared it from one side; "that one with two bar'ls fur a chimley. You jest go right in. I'll be thar ez soon ez I put up the hosses." As they reached the front, both men started at the sight of the cradle.
There was a very bonny-painted cloth alang the chimley what they call a mantelpiece border, I warrant." "Sal, I've often wondered what they was." "Well, I assure ye they winna be ill to mak, for the border was juist nailed upon a board laid on the chimley. There's naething to hender's makin' ane for the room." "Ay, we could sew something on the border instead o' paintin't.
"Within the week, sir, but then beer down the neck is rather unpleasant!" and here the Sergeant uttered a short laugh, and was immediately grave again. "It isn't," he went on, "it isn't as I mind the inconvenience of moving, sir though I shall be mighty sorry to leave the old place, still, it isn't that so much as the small corner cup-board, and my bookshelf by the chimley.
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