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"Of course you don't, uncle; but I shan't hurt. Old Dumpus says I can manage a boat as well as he can." "He's a wooden-legged, wooden-headed old fool for saying so. Look here, Aleck; you'd better stop at home to-day." "Uncle!" cried the boy, in a voice full of protest. "The weather's going to change.
Miss Dumpus, that's Mrs Crammer's sister, told us the other day, that I was wrong to talk about a man being handsome; but that must be nonsense, aunt?" "I don't see that at all, my dear. If she told you so, you ought to believe that it is not nonsense." "Come, aunt; you don't mean to tell me that you would believe all that Miss Dumpus says.
But it was nothing of the sort, being only his pigtail carefully bound with ribbon, and the thickest and longest pigtail in the "Ryal Navee." Tom Bodger, or as he was generally known by the Rockabie boys Dumpus, trotted down the slope in a wonderful way, for how he managed to keep his balance over the rough cobbles and on the storm-worn granite stones of the pier was a marvel of equilibrium.
Remarks were made, too, on his personal appearance and the cut of his clothes, but there was nothing more than petty annoyance till the quarry was on his way back to where he would be under the protection of the redoubtable Dumpus, who did not scruple about "letting 'em have it," to use his own words, it being very unpleasant whatever shape it took.
Miss Dumpus says that girls should never laugh above their breath when they are more than fourteen years old. How can you make a change in your laughing just when you come to be fourteen? And why shouldn't you say a man's handsome, if he is handsome?" "You'd better go to bed, Susanna." "That won't make Mr Rubb ugly.
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