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Folks says you know more 'bout the robbery at the Dutchman's than you orter. But I don't believe them. Fer them as says it is liars and thieves theirselves. 'Ta'n't fer none of that. And I shan't tell you what it is fer. So now, if you won't travel, why, take off your coat and git ready fer a thrashing." The master took off his coat and showed his slender arms.
Fruit globular, of a bright red, smooth and shining. This is a native shrub, being found in Scotland, northern England and Ireland. A. ALPINA. Black Bearberry. Scotland. This is confined to the northern Highlands of Scotland, is of smaller growth, with toothed deciduous leaves, and small drooping flowers of two or three together. ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. Dutchman's Pipe. North America, 1763.
The plumy dicentra, or Dutchman's breeches, seems so feminine as to be grossly misnamed until we remember that it was first discovered in the Rip Van Winkle country.
"They'll never come for us in the launch in that," said Katherine after a few moments' silent gazing, voicing the fears of the others. "We should never have started out on a day like this," said Hinpoha. "Why did you insist so on our coming, Gladys?" "Well," Gladys defended herself, "Katherine said there was enough blue to patch the Dutchman's breeches and "
"And then, of course, you know what's next, it left the Dutchman's shore With those that in the Mayflower came, a hundred souls and more, Along with all the furniture, to fill their new abodes, To judge by what is still on hand, at least a hundred loads.
Moreover, the loss of his jibs caused him to miss stays and hang in the wind so long that, taking advantage of the opportunity, Captain Vavassour bore up, and, passing close athwart his stern, raked him most effectively with our starboard broadside, receiving only four shot from the Dutchman's stern-chasers in return.
Petersen's cosey room, the poor old seaman heard the story in all its details, half bewildered by the good Dutchman's broken English, but fully able to extract from it all the painful and shameful particulars of his grandson's rascality.
"French Pete and that thar feller that keeps the Dutch grocery hev hed a row over it; emptied their six-shooters into each other. The Dutchman's got two balls in his leg, and the Frenchman's got an onnessary buttonhole in his shirt-buzzum, and hez caved in." This concise, local corroboration of the conflict of remote nations, however confirmatory, did not appear to excite any further interest.
And from the spirit of this remark it will be seen that kindliness and fellowship had gone by the board. Hugo Van Diest struggled to his feet gasping for breath and stroking his chin with sympathetic fingers. Comparatively speaking, Richard's blow had been a light one, but the Dutchman's training had not fitted him for taking punishment. He was hurt, outraged and resentful.
Just then the German's FIANCEE reached us. Robertson introduced Harry and myself to her, and then said good-bye. She stood there in the broiling Fijian sun with a dainty sunshade over her face, looking so lovely and cool in her spotless muslin dress, and withal so innocent, that I no longer wondered at the Dutchman's "chronic state of silly." Allan the Stalwart stood by waiting for his dollar.
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