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'Stop you here, sir, he said; 'Bill's off, and he's the youngest and spryest, and sure enough there was Williams already within a few yards of Mr. Vane. 'I don't take it there's much danger of no drownding and Bill knows the deep part. But it's cold for the gentleman, so delicate as he is we two had best stay dry and be ready to give 'em a hand when they get in.
Even Nancy was subdued to meekness, as she sped on to be one of the busiest in preparing remedies; and old Roy, though somewhat inclined to regard it in the light of a judgment upon proud Rachel for slighting his son, felt some twinges of pitying regret. "I have knowed cases where people, dead from drownding, have been restored to life," said Roy, as they walked along.
Well, what's the mighty difference 'tween them air, and a passel of citizens that'll set by and see their feller citizens go straight inter that air hole and say nothin? I believe in men's minding their own business, and I hold its a man's business to save a drownding feller critter if he ken. I hev now come to my last pint. It is this.
He could outswim any horse I ever saw, but I drowned him in the Washita two weeks later. Yes, tangled his feet in some vines in a sunken treetop, and the poor fellow's light went out. My own candle came near being snuffed. I never felt so bad over a little thing since I burned my new red topboots when I was a kid, as in drownding that horse.
"'Wow-ow, says I, givin' the distress signal so that the windows rattled, and reachin' for my holster. I'd 'a' got them both, only the gun caught in my suspender. You see, not anticipatin' any live bird shoot I'd put it inside my pants-band, under my vest, for appearances. A forty-five is like fresh air to a drownding man generally has to be drawed in haste and neither one shouldn't be mislaid.
"I released it, and it flowed I mean flew up the chimbley." With the shamefaced air of a man detected in the performance of a noble action, he passed out of the room. Husband and wife eyed each other. "That's Alf that's Alf all over," said Mr. Teak, with enthusiasm. "He's been like it from a child. He's the sort of man that 'ud dive off Waterloo Bridge to save the life of a drownding sparrow."
He found Jerry sitting on the steps, though it was long past bedtime, his chin on his hand, and his unblinking gaze fixed upon the stars, as if he were trying to stare them out of countenance. "I don't b'lieve you've heard about the drownding." "What d'ye mean?" Jerry's head lifted, yet his response was less dramatic than Elisha had hoped for. "You know that Raymond girl, up to the Cottage.
Such a meeting! the kissing and the greeting drownding the noise of the music, and the old men and the little children dancing. The prophet himself came out, and shook hands with 'em all, his brass band blowing in front of him, and he standing up in his carriage. Where else would you travel to, I'd like to know, and find such a welcome at the end of your journey?
"Just jumping in and swimming out again is not quite the same as saving a drownding man," he said, with a sneer. In a flash the mate saw a chance of escape. "Why, there's no satisfying you," he said, slowly. "If I do go in I can see that you won't own up that you've been lying." "He'll 'ave to," said Mr. Smith, who, having made up his mind for a little excitement, was in no mind to lose it.
The young lady's little scollop the one as is called Naughty Tillus is sent away for the winter." "Stop your cursed croaking," cried Harcourt, excitedly, "and help me out with this boat. If I can't save her, I can at least drown with her." "Divil a lift will I give ye. It will do the master and young lady no good, and I'll not have your drownding on my conscience."
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