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Here Joel sneezed, repeating the word "and" several times, in hopes the chaplain would supply the name he so much wished to hear. "But you saw no savages? I know the captain is out, and you will be careful not to mention it, lest it get to Mrs. Willoughby's ears, and make her uneasy. You saw nothing of the savages?" "Not a bit the critturs lie cluss enough, if they haven't actually tramped.
"The commodore says that the critturs are to be treated delicately," said Macy, laughing, as he lanced his first seal that morning, a young one of the fur species; "so take up the pet, lads, and lay it in its cradle, while I go look for its mamma."
"Some buys up these yer old critturs, and ses there's a sight more wear in 'em than a body 'd think," said the man, reflectively. "No go, 't all," said Haley; "wouldn't take her for a present, fact, I've seen, now." "Wal, 't is kinder pity, now, not to buy her with her son, her heart seems so sot on him, s'pose they fling her in cheap."
To gie her her due, she's cracky, and as for her being a cuttie, you've said yoursel, Mr. Dishart, that we're all desperately wicked, But we're sair tried. Has it ever struck you that the trouts bites best on the Sabbath? God's critturs tempting decent men." "Come alang," cried the Tilliedrum man, impatiently. "I'm coming, but I maun give Mr. Dishart permission to pass first. Hae you heard, Mr.
"And a blow from his heavy hand such a blow as he's given me many a time when he's been tipsy would go near to killing them tender sort o' fairy-like critturs," said the boy to himself, shuddering in his turn. "He's been extra sober for a good bit, but onst he gets to the fair there's no saying."
"There's no sich rope in the ship." "I know that well enough; but an amphibby, as I understand it, is a new sort of whale, that comes up to breathe, like all of that family, as old Dr. Mitchell, of Cow Neck, calls the critturs. So the furrin officers thought we must be of the amphibby family, to live so much under water, as it seemed to them.
"Drefful notional critturs traout be," he said, "olluz bitin' atwhodger haaent got. Orful contrairy critturs, jess like fimmls. Yer can cotch a fimml with a feather, ef she's ter be cotched; ef she haaent ter be cotched, yer may scoop ther hul world dry an' yer haaent got her. Jess so traout." The misogynist bored us with his dull philosophy.
"You couldn't do it." "Oi wouldn't thry! Oi'd rather tackle a railroad train going at full spheed thin wan av thim runaway critturs." "Get down from there," hissed my brother so close to my ear that it made me bite my tongue. I obediently scrambled down. Ted's face was very red. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself to enter into immediate conversation with a man like that.
They were interrupted at this moment by the appearance of Jake Wheeler and Sam Price, who came gaping out of the darkness of the store. "Was that Jethro, Mose?" demanded Jake. "Guess we'll go along up and see if there's any orders." "I suppose the humblest of God's critturs has their uses," Moses remarked contemplatively, as he watched the retreating figures of Sam and Jake.
"Wal, so old Cack he got out his tin lantern, and went with Cap'n Eb back to the bars to help him fetch along his critturs. He told him he could put 'em under the mill-shed. So they got the critturs up to the shed, and got the cart under; and by that time the storm was awful.
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