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"It was well for him," said Dalton, immediately after he had left them, "that I hadn't a loaded pistol in my hand but no, dear Mave," he added, checking himself, "the hasty temper and the hasty blow is the fault of our family, an' so far as I am consarned, I'll do everything to overcome it."
"'Cap'n Symes, says I, 'you can take them prime Havana seegars an' that best o' Lawrence's aould Medford New England rum, says I, 'an' stick 'em overboard as fur as I'm consarned. All I asks is common sea-vility; an' that o' the gol-darndest commonest kind!" Ben told me this story while he ate. He was the liveliest kind of a companion.
"An' nobody has a better right to know nor yourself, wherever larnin' and education's consarned," said the father. "Why, it's not long since I examined him myself; I say it sitting here, and I believe every one that hears me is present; and during the course of the examination I was really astonished.
However, it didn't seem to matter so much, so far as the ship was consarned, for the Yankee second mate turned out to be a first-rate navigator, and he in a way took charge of the craft. "Well, gentlemen, how it all came about, I can't say, for I never noticed anything wrong.
Fetch the boy along into my Counting House, You and me must have a talk about this in fact, I want a word with everybody consarned." Tilda considered for a moment, and then announced a compromise. "Tell you what," she said, "I don't mind comin' along with you first not if you let 'Dolph come too." "I shan't let him murder me, if that's in your mind." Mr. Hucks grinned.
They brung me sich 'counts uv the goin's-on thet at last, thinks I, I'll go an' see fur myse'f. I knowed you an' Henry could tek keer uv yo'se'ves; but I wuz consarned 'bout Cissy, an' felt it high time to be lookin' artah her. I soon found her, an' when I seed she still hed her haid on her shouldahs, I wuz easier in my mind; but I'll nevah fergit thet fust visit.
Their hearts were so filled with joy that they could think of little but their own overflowing happiness. "Yes," Samson at length began, "I have seen some wonderful sights, an' no mistake. I ain't no artist nor poet as fer as puttin' things on paper or canvas is consarned. But it's all here," and he tapped his breast with the fingers of his right hand.
He's the finest bird I ever set eyes on; an' as for singin', he's dropped the weather, an' he's askin' folks to his housewarmin' to-day. He's been there alone for a week, an' his singin's been first-class; but to-day he's picked up a mate, an' he's as tickled as ever I was. I am really consarned for fear he'll burst himself." Maria sniffed.
Buck Fuson is the wrong kind o' man to have round. He's ben a stealin' my co'n now fer two weeks and mo'. Ef I kin ketch him right out, and give him a fa'r shamin', he'll quit the Turkey Tracks fer good. So fer as Elmiry and the chaps is consarned, they'll be better off without Buck 'n what they is with him."
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