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But as I sez to Josiah, he got his come-up-ance for his heartless cruelty, he got plagued enough and drownded in the bargain. He's a mummy now. Yes, as Josiah sez when he looked on him: "You've got to be mum now, no givin' orders to your poor overworked hired help in your brick-fields, not lettin' 'em have even a straw that they begged for to lighten their burden.
But, to return from this digression to the story of Robinson Crusoe. It must not be supposed that Adams exhausted that tale in one night. "Now, child'n," he concluded, "that'll do for one night; and as it's of no manner of use sending you all to bed to dream of bein' shipwrecked and drownded, we'll finish off with a game of blind-man's-buff."
"I heared of a man oncet that would go to a picnic in the rain, and he got struck so bad it burned his shoes plump off." "Must have been the same man that got drownded, when he was little, fer goin' in swimmin' on Sunday," answered Mrs. Wiggs, wiping her hands on her apron. "Mebbe 't was," said Miss Hazy. Lovey Mary vibrated between the door and the window, alternating between hope and despair.
They've found her in the brook as the waters went down. Drownded theer the awnly sunshine as ever smiled at Drift. Oh, my good God! 'tis a miz-maze to drive us all out of our senses. An' you, mother my dear, dear sawl, my heart bleeds for 'e." "I caan't cry for her my tears be dried at the roots o' my eyes. I be down-danted to the edge o' my awn graave.
"Oh, well," said the other, and sighed and shook his head discouragingly. "I took a little notice of 'er," repeated Captain Barber, "and then to spare her feelings I 'ad to sort o' let 'er know that I could never marry for Fred's sake, d'ye see? Then on top of all that poor Fred goes and gets drownded." "But have you promised to marry her?" asked Nibletts, with a cunning look.
"Everything," she answered. "I never had a case like yours. I never had a patient who was run away with, and kicked on the head, and drownded. So I says to Tip, I says, 'I'll do everything. I'll treat for asthmy, erysipelas and pneumony, rheumatism and snake-bite, for the yallers and " "Hold on," I pleaded. "I haven't had all that." "You mought have had any one of 'em," she said firmly.
"You ought to give him one too," ses Mrs. Mitchell, pointing to George. George wiped 'is mouth on the back of his 'and, but Gerty pretended not to 'ear. "Fancy if you'd been drownded!" she ses, hugging Bob agin. "He was pretty near," ses George, shaking his 'ead. "I'm a pore swimmer, but I made up my mind either to save 'im or else go down to a watery grave myself."
The words were these: MYSELF: This land wanted draining, didn't it? THE OTHER MAN: Ah! MYSELF: It seems to be pretty well drained now. THE OTHER MAN: Ugh! MYSELF: I mean it seems dry enough. THE OTHER MAN: It was drownded only last winter. MYSELF: It looks to be good land. THE OTHER MAN: It's lousy land; it's worth nowt.
"Well, I never!" panted out Jupp as he raced down the incline at a headlong speed towards the spot where he had seen Teddy disappear, and whence had come his choking cry of alarm and the splash he made as he fell into the water. "The b'y'll be drownded 'fore I can reach him!"
Sorrow, said she, 'is I showin' of my ankles, said she, 'rollin' about so like mad? "'Little bit, sais I, 'Missus. "'Den put dat scarf ober my feet agin. What on earth does you mean, Sorrow, bout not sleepin' too close to de Yankees? "'Missus, sais I, 'does you recollect de day when Zeno was drownded off de raft?
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