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O'Keeffe's fingers played uneasily with her bosom's cross. "No, but I should feel happier about you. It it settles people." "It certainly does," Eileen laughed, and her celebrated ditty, "The Marriage Settlement," flashed upon her. "Oh, dear," and her laugh changed to a sigh. "The marriages I see around me!" "What! Isn't Mrs. Lee Carter happy?" Eileen flushed.
"Ever occur to you, Thee, that they have to be on time close enough to MAKE TIME? The Dispatcher up there must have a long head." Pleased with his similitude, Ray went back to the lookout. Going into Denver, he had to keep a sharp watch. Giddy came down, cheerful at the prospect of getting into port, and singing a new topical ditty that had come up from the Santa Fe by way of La Junta.
On receiving these direful tidings, the valiant Peter started from his seat dashed the pipe he was smoking against the back of the chimney thrust a prodigious quid of tobacco into his left cheek pulled up his galligaskins, and strode up and down the room, humming, as was customary with him when in a passion, a hideous north-west ditty.
"That's their motto, 'Semper fidelis. They have lived up to it in every war. They antedate the navy, you know." "How's that?" asked the "Kid," who was willing to absorb knowledge at times. Tommy produced an ancient book from his ditty box, and proceeded to read an extract in a loud, sonorous voice.
"But all the same he means to stick us with it," chuckled Bob; "for you can see he's got his hand in his shirt right now, as if searching for something so valuable that he won't even carry it in his ditty bag." "That's right, Bob." "And now he's got in touch with that old letter," grunted Bob. "I suppose we'll just have to read it to please him." "You can if you care to," remarked Frank.
There was no one in sight, but Aggo heard the words quite plainly, and as he suspected the ditty to be the work of his enemies, the buffalos, he hopped home as fast as his one leg could carry him. Meantime, the daughter had no sooner been left alone in the lodge than she thought with herself: "It is hard to be thus forever kept in doors. But my father says it would be dangerous to venture abroad.
Then she looked out of doors and rushed back again, and put on that crazy woollen cap you crocheted for her, and opened the door to the kitchen, where Susie was singing some hoarse ditty of her own, and told her that she was going out again to see that child, and that she would be back in a few minutes. That Susie showed her sense, and I'm going to give her a big tip.
They made such a noise with the chorus of this ditty that Mr. Jermyn was able to refresh my memory in the message to be given to Mr. Blick. The rain had ceased before we started. When we came into the square, we saw that cressets, or big flaming port-fires, had been placed along the wharf, to give light to some seamen who were rolling casks to the barquentine.
They ate all they wanted, for the food was more plentiful than water, and they knew if worst came to worst they could live for several days without victuals, but not without water. Slowly the time dragged on. Nobody aboard the craft knew what to do. Once Bob tried to cheer up and hum a ditty, but the effort was a dismal failure.
Through the back bow-window of the Phoenix, there pealed forth faint in the distance and rain a solemn royal ditty, piped by the tuneful Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, and neither unmusical nor somehow uncongenial with the darkness, and the melancholy object of the doctor's walk, the chant being rather monastic, wild, and dirge-like.
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