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"I should think," the lightkeeper declared over and over again, "that you'd had salt water soak enough to last you for one spell; a feller that come as nigh drownin' as you done!" Seth did not care for swimming; the washtub every Saturday night furnished him with baths sufficient.
If anybody wants to know what it's like to be drowned, send 'em to Job Hesketh. If I'd as mony lives as an owd tom-cat, I'd get shut on 'em all wi' drownin'." Job's spirits were evidently restored, so I urged him to get on with his story.
Things like this, besides lots of other things, my grandpa's prayers and other things, had made me think a lot of religion, so as to be ready if I was to be took by lightnin' or drownin' or anything suddent. And some of the boys said that if you was drowned and didn't have nothin' on, you'd be kept out of heaven, and sent to a place of punishment.
I guess he's over head and ears in 'em, and the old man's gone in after him, and he's got a drownin' man's grip round his neck. There seems to be a kind of a lull kind of a dead calm, I call it in the paint market just now; and then again a ten-hundred-thousand-dollar man don't build a hundred-thousand-dollar house without feeling the drain, unless there's a regular boom.
Suddenly Tedge realized a vast malevolent pleasure he couldn't hope to gain from his perishing cargo; and he began to gloat at the agony spread below his wheelhouse window, and the cattleman's futile pity for them. "They'll rot on Point Au Fer! We'll heave the stink of them, dead and alive, to the sharks of Au Fer Pass! Drownin' cows in dyin' lilies "
"I ain't never 'ad it put on me, Miss," she said, with the air of a martyr trying to make himself comfortable up against the stake, "not as a regler thing, I ain't, but wotever I'm asked to do in the line of duty whiles I'm dwellin' in this sufferin' and dyin' world, I aims to do the best wot I can, w'ether it's milkin' a cow, drownin' kittens, or buryin' a cat wot can't stay buried."
"Him's not drownin' yet," answered the matter-of-fact native. "Me 'vise you to let Jakolu go. Hims can sweem berer dan you. See, here am bit plank, too, me take dat."
"Mary Quinn and I, with the assistance of others, of course." "Are you sure that you know which is the business end of a nursing-bottle? Could you put a safety-pin where it would do the most good? Could you wash a baby without drownin' it?" "Of course I have not had much experience," Virginia replied in a dignified and lofty way, "but Mary Quinn has, and she could teach me."
Den Brer Tarrypin begin fer ter holler: "'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me. "Brer Fox he holler back: "'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you. "Brer Tarrypin he keep on holler'n: "'Ketch holt er me I'm a drownin' I'm a drownin' tu'n loose de stump root en ketch holt er me.
What's all this 'bout your jumpin' overboard t'other day and savin' him from drownin'?" and the mariner fairly beamed upon her. "Oh, uncle, you mustn't believe everything you hear!" "No? But Bet Gallup says 'tis so. You air a hi-mighty plucky girl, I guess. I allus have thought so and so did Abe.
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