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Ducats and doubloons, princesses and plum-cake, swords awave and cannon blazing, great galleons with crimson sails no wonder that they were smiling in their sleep when George Dunkin held a lantern over the bunk at the change of the watch. The day came in dark with fog, which changed a little after noon to driving scud.
As indicated by two marble date stones set in the third-story front wall just below the cornice, this house was begun in 1786 and finished in 1787 by John Reynolds. Some years later it was purchased at a sheriff's sale by Ann Dunkin, who sold it in 1817 to Luke Wistar Morris, the son of Captain Samuel Morris.
Landing at the ferry where a small scow or flat-boat was resting upon the firm land, the ferryman, Mr. Daniel Dunkin, would not permit me to camp out of doors while his log-cabin was only one mile away on the pine-covered uplands.
And any infringement of this property right he looked upon with distinct disfavour. So that it was with no pleasant countenance that he greeted Mr. Dunkin when he called on a certain night. "Mr. Scatters is gone out," he said, as the old man entered and deposited his hat on the floor. "Dat's all right, Isaac," said Mr. Dunkin slowly, "I didn't come to see de gent'man. I come to see you."
A formidable opponent, too, was Christopher Dunkin, an independent Conservative, inspired, it may be supposed, by the distrust of constitutional change entertained by his immediate fellow-countrymen, the English minority in Lower Canada.
I have often warned you, Morris, against drinking, and told you it would end in some terrible catastrophe. I should think you would now reform." "God helping, I will." Dr. Dean was a very strong temperance man, and had been an active supporter of the Dunkin Act.
"He got a hun'ed an' fifty dollahs f'om me," said Dunkin. "I let him have fifty," added Jackson weakly. "He got a hun'ed an' fifty dollahs f'om thews. Dat's how I come to git 'spicious. He tol' him de same sto'y." Again that pregnant look flashed between them, and they both rose and went out of the house. They hurried down to Matthews' grocery. The owner was waiting for them there.
I made the boy get some water, and after bathing his face for a few moments, I succeeded in rousing him. "Is that you, Mist' Dunkin?" he asked, faintly. "Yes. How do you feel, Thomas?" "Dey's tuhibul times down-street," he gasped. "I like to got kilt." A pause.
As bo's'n, it was not only his right but his duty to lay in with a rope's end occasionally. He was one of the fairest men in Bonnet's company and Jeremy had never felt any great injustice in the treatment Dunkin had accorded him.
There was a Quaker saddler who made for himself an electrical machine and mechanical models, in which young Davy took keen interest, and from that saddler, Robert Dunkin, came the first impulse towards experiments in science. At fifteen Davy was placed for further education at a school in Truro. A year later his father died, and John Tonkin apprenticed him, on the 10th of February, 1795, to Dr.
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