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Raw carrots eaten are also very good for the scurvy; and during a voyage, they should be packed up in casks of sand and kept for use. If the limbs be swelled, or joints stiff, it will be proper to foment them with warm vinegar, or bathe them in lukewarm water. A valuable ointment may be made of a pound of fresh lard, and as much cliver or goose-grass as the lard will moisten.
"Why, messmates," he was wont to say, "it bait everything the way he tuk it out. `Open yer mouth, says he, an' sure I opened it, an' before I cud wink, off wint my head so I thought but faix it wor only my tuth a real grinder wi' three fangs no less och! he's a cliver lad intirely." But Will did not confine his inquiries to the objects contained within his wooden home.
It's there ye must have larned to be so oncommon cliver. Don't you iver be persuaded for to go to school, Bumble, if ye iver git the chance. It's a mighty lot o' taichin' they'd give ye, but niver a taste o' edication. Tin to wan, they'd cram ye till ye turned white i' the face, an' that wouldn't suit yer complexion, ye know, King Bumble, be no manes."
Adam 'ud ha' done for thee I know he would an' he might come t' like thee well enough, if thee'dst stop. But he's as stubborn as th' iron bar there's no bending him no way but's own. But he'd be a fine husband for anybody, be they who they will, so looked-on an' so cliver as he is. And he'd be rare an' lovin': it does me good on'y a look o' the lad's eye when he means kind tow'rt me."
Grieve he's made of quite different stuff, and, if I may say so, it will pay you very well to recognise it in good time. That boy will read books now which hardly any grown man of his class about here, at any rate would be able to read. Aye, and talk about them, too, in a way to astonish you! 'Yes, I know 'at he's oncommon cliver wi his books, is Davy, Reuben admitted. 'Oh! it's not only that.
M'Cosh, "he's been in a trap, but he's gotten out. Peter's a cliver lad." Jock and Mhor had no words. They lay on the linoleum-covered floor while Mrs. M'Cosh fetched hot milk, and crushed their faces against the little black-and-white body they had thought they might never see again, while Peter licked his own torn paw and their faces in turn.
Clarke says she ought to stay in bed, but of course she won't." "They're a-goin' to try 'im Thursday?" said Mrs. Jellison, inquiringly. "Yes." "An' Muster Wharton be a-goin' to defend 'im. Muster Wharton may be cliver, ee may they do say as ee can see the grass growin', ee's that knowin' but ee'll not get Jim Hurd off; there's nobody in the village as b'lieves for a moment as 'ow he will.
So I listened a goodish bit, and somehow everythin' seemed unnathural quiet, till I heard Katty fidgettin', and I went over to see would she take a dhrink of wather. The Lord presarve us and keep us, ma'am, if all the rest of them hadn't quit quit out of it they have, and left us cliver and clane." "Ah, now, don't be romancin' man," said the widow, remonstrantly.
"Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it." "What a capital dodge!" said Fred, crouching behind the hummock, and watching the movements of the Esquimau with deep interest. "West, hand me the little telescope; you'll find it in the pack." "Here it is, sir," said the man, pulling out a glass of about six inches long, and handing it to Fred. "How many is there, an ye plaze?"
But he promptly replied, "Yis, but owd Edwards were a soight too cliver; he were that mean he slew nobbutt a wankling cauf as were bound to deny anny road; if he had nobbutt tekken his best cauf it wud hev worked reight enuff; 'tain't in reason that owd skrat 'ud be hanselled wi' wankling draffle."
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