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Let 'em come," he said, with a sudden look of sagacity, "we'll circumwent 'em. There's nothin' like circumwention w'en you've got into a fix. See here. We'll dig a hole in a sandbank big enough to hold us all, an' we'll cut a big bush an' stick it in front of the hole so as they'll never see it.
"The short an' the long of it is, that I see'd from the first the on'y way to humbug them yellow-faced baboons was to circumwent 'em. So I set to work at the wery beginnin'." "Ah, by takin' a header," said Simkin, "into one o' their bread-baskets!" "No, no!" returned the seaman, "that, I confess, was a mistake. But you'll admit, I've made no more mistakes o' the same sort since then.
"I've heard of ghosts ashore, and sometimes on board of a ship, but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly-boat," said Coble, spitting under the gun. "Specially when there were hardly room for the corporal," added Spurey. "Yes," observed Short. "Well, we shall know something about it to-night, for the corporal and I am to have a palaver." "Mind he don't circumwent you, Jimmy," said Spurey.
I'd have you to know, sir, that I'm no more a hass than you are, sir; and as for introducing the Captain, I did no such thing." "Well, well, he's got a-poaching into our preserves somehow. He's evidently sweet upon the young woman, and is a more fashionable chap than either of us two. We must get him out of the house, sir we must circumwent him; and THEN, Mr.
"I've heard of ghosts ashore, and sometimes on board of a ship, but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly-boat," said Coble, spitting under the gun. "'Specially when there were hardly room for the corporal," added Spurey. "Yes," observed Short. "Well, we shall know something about it to-night, for the corporal and I am to have a palaver." "Mind he don't circumwent you, Jimmy," said Spurey.
You go right straight over there to that there Board meetin' and circumwent 'em! Before they're got TIME to wote you off your job, you up and throw their old William Penn in their Dutch faces, and tell 'em be blowed to 'em! Tell 'em you don't WANT their blamed old school and you're goin' to EUROPE, you are! To EUROPE, yet!" He seized her hand as he spoke and almost pulled her to the store door.
But we must keep a sharp eye on 'em, or they'll be too many for us, I'm afraid. They're the sort as it don't do to be easy with, sir, because if you are, they only think you're feared on 'em." "There shan't be much easiness with them, Tom," said Mark, firmly. "They're prisoners, and prisoners they shall stay." "If they don't circumwent us, sir, and get out," said Tom; and the discussion closed.
Mose, yo's gwine to be a married man one of dese days yo'self, an' yo' wants a little cabin of yo' own; and ef yo' hoe dis row to de end an' circumwent dese 'spiring men, p'haps Mas'r LeMonde gwine give yo' de cabin an' Miss Viola gwine put lots o' nice tings in it. Dat's de proposition; an', Mose, yo' got to keep yo' wooly head mighty cool an' calc'lating.
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