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"The dratted Portygee's gone off to Paulmouth. He left word that he couldn't sail with us this trip." "Then he'll never sail on the Seamew again," declared the skipper grimly. "And that won't bother him none," said the boatswain gloomily. "I'll get breakfast for all hands," said Tunis. "I'm not above that. Where are the hands?" "As far as I know, Cap'n Tunis, they are where Johnny Lark is.
Come along, Tad, er these dratted youngsters 'll eat all yer grub fer ye." This as the fellows seated themselves about the table. Tad, by the aid of a crutch, hobbled from the lean-to kitchen and took his seat at the table nearest the fire.
"It is longer, but easier. But tell me how you came down that gully, you and Queenie?" "I'm sort of ashamed to tell you, Tunis, and that's a fact," the old captain said, wagging his head. "And don't you ever tell Prudence." "I'll not say a word to Aunt Prue," promised the captain of the Seamew. "Yet," grumbled the old man, "that dratted Queen of Sheby is too much for Prudence.
Johnson. "Elfrid, pass the mustid down." Miriam leaning across the table: "Elfrid!" "Once she got us all kept in. The whole school!" Miriam, more insistently: "Elfrid!" Uncle Pentstemon, raising his voice defiantly: "Trounce 'er again I would if she did as much now. That I would! Dratted mischief!" Miriam, catching Mr. Polly's eye: "Elfrid! This lady knows Canterbury.
I want you to go for them young roosters at once, and get 'em into shape in short meter. Marching orders may come any day, and then we want everybody up and dressed. There'll be no time for foolishness. Those dratted little rats were all over camp last night, and into more kinds of devilment than so many pet crows. I've been hearing about nothing else this morning."
It ain't our fault she went. She left us in the night stole out with just a bundle of clothes and things. Left, Prudence says, every enduring thing she'd got since she come here that we give her." Tunis groaned. "Yes, she's gone. And she's left that other dratted girl in her place.
"I'm not going!" I declared firmly. "It's it's dratted idiocy, that's all. Plain water would do well enough. There's a lot of people think whisky is poison with water, anyhow. Where's the pitcher?" Oh, yes, I went. I put on some stockings of Mrs. Moody's and a petticoat and a shawl and started. It was when I was in the pharmacy looking for the peppermint that I first noticed my joint again.
And it lays back from the road wi' a pair o' gates iron gates as is also ruinated, atween two stone pillars wi' a lion a-top of each, leastways if it ain't a lion it's a griffin, which is a fab'lous beast. And talking of beasts, sir, I do believe as that theer dratted child don't never mean to sleep no more.
"And you thought you were stealing your own letters!" I cried. "The ones she carries fire insurance on! Oh, Mr. Dick, Mr. Dick!" "How was I to know it wasn't Ju Miss Summers' room?" he demanded angrily. "Didn't I follow the dratted dog? And wouldn't you have thought the wretched beast would have known me instead of sitting on its tail under the bed and yelling for mother?
Y'r the dratted measly sapsucker that bounced me 'bout takin' likker inter camp. What bizniss wuz hit o' your'n whether I tuk likker in or not? Jest wanted t' be smart, didn't ye? Jest wanted t' interfere with a lone, lorn widder lady makin' a honest livin' for herself and 10 children. My ole man ketched the black ager layin' out in the brush to dodge the conscripters.
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