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"All right; that's a bargain," agreed Rogers. Then, turning to the rest of the mutineers, he ordered them to fetch all hands on deck to witness punishment, "All hands exceptin' the ladies, I mean; they'd be shocked at the sight, pretty dears, and we must take care as they don't see nor hear nothin' as'd shock 'em, sweet, delicate creeturs," he added with a contemptuous laugh, which was echoed by his comrades as they staggered forward to drag the male passengers on deck.
'I think a cove had better have to do with lions than them little creeturs, for they're always flying back in your face when you least expect it. Well, how d'ye do and what do you want? These polite inquiries the Grinder uttered, as it were under protest, and with great exasperation and vindictiveness.
"It's very kind of you to take all this trouble for nothing," ses Mrs. Burtenshaw as Silas got up to go. "Don't mention it," ses Silas. "It ain't the fust time, and I don't suppose it'll be the last, that I've put myself out to help my feller- creeturs. We all ought to do wot we can for each other." "Mind, if he finds it out," ses Mrs. Burtenshaw, all of a tremble, "I don't know nothing about it.
'I wouldn't, cried Miggs, folding her hands and looking upwards with a kind of devout blankness, 'I wouldn't lay myself out as she does; I wouldn't be as bold as her; I wouldn't seem to say to all male creeturs "Come and kiss me" and here a shudder quite convulsed her frame 'for any earthly crowns as might be offered. Worlds, Miggs added solemnly, 'should not reduce me. No. Not if I was Wenis.
She was quite fond of Rilla in her own melancholy way; but young creeturs had to be kept down. If they were not kept down society would be demoralized. "Do you remember your walk home from the light two years ago tonight?" whispered Gertrude Oliver to Rilla, teasingly.
By this time the new-comer stood on the threshold, sighing. "How do you do, you pretty creeturs?" said she, with a dreary smile. "Yes, 'um," replied Katie; "is you the Polly, and does you feel drefful?" The sad woman kissed the little girls, for she was fond of children, sighed more heavily than ever, asked if their grandmother was at home, and passed through the kitchen on her way to the parlor.
"But, Uncle Remus," said the little boy, dolefully, "that was cheating." "Co'se, honey. De creeturs 'gun ter cheat, en den fokes tuck it up, en hit keep on spreadin'. Hit mighty ketchin', en you mine yo' eye, honey, dat somebody don't cheat you 'fo' yo' ha'r git gray ez de ole nigger's."
Briggs, left alone, sauntered to a looking-glass hanging on the wall and studied with some solicitude a pimple that had recently appeared on his clean-shaven face. "Mischief!" he soliloquized. "I des-say! Whenever a lot of women gets together, there's sure to be mischief. Dear creeturs! They love it like the best Clicquot. Sprightly young pusson is Mamzelle.
'There are some happy creeturs, Mrs Gamp observed, 'as time runs back'ards with, and you are one, Mrs Mould; not that he need do nothing except use you in his most owldacious way for years to come, I'm sure; for young you are and will be.
"ONE time," said Uncle Remus adjusting his spectacles so as to be able to see how to thread a large darning-needle with which he was patching his coat "one time, way back yander, 'fo' you wuz bomed, honey, en 'fo' Mars John er Miss Sally wuz bomed way back yander 'fo' enny un us wuz bomed, de animils en de creeturs sorter 'lecshuneer roun' 'mong deyselves, twel at las' dey 'greed fer ter have a 'sembly.
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