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Five minutes of unalloyed bliss followed and we were just draining off the last dregs and cleaning up the crumbs, when a bullet-headed boy stuck his head in at the door. "Dorg's 'ere again," he said, laconically. "Nosin' abaht in the gabbage 'eap." "Tie a can on 'is tile," said the grocer.
Two glasses at dinner and two at supper is my allowance, and if I chance to miss it, why I jest seems to fall all of a 'eap like, an' I 'ears my in'ards a gnawin' and a gnawin' and a cryin' out for stout." I felt quite overcome at this charming picture of my future self, if only I followed Mrs. Wattles's advice.
"'Where are you for, lady? he said. "The lady did not move, and the guard stepped into the carriage, thinking that perhaps the lady was asleep. He touched her arm lightly and looked into her face. In his own poetic language, he was 'struck all of a 'eap. In the glassy eyes, the ashen colour of the cheeks, the rigidity of the head, there was the unmistakable look of death.
"I've took a 'eap o' trouble to find yer," she said. "An' now I've done it, all depends on our gettin' out o' this. Ain't there no way? Do try to think a bit!" The boy shook his head. "There isn't any way. You let me alone, and clear." "He can't do worse'n kill us," said Tilda desperately, with a look back at the house. "S'help me, let's try!" But her spirit quailed. "He won't kill you.
Dave, who had been studying the shore with the glass, handed it to Jarvis: "Do you see something like a village?" "Sure I do!" exclaimed the other excitedly. "Sure, there's a village, a 'ole 'eap of bloomin' 'eathen live up 'ere, h'only they hain't dull and stupid like them down below." "It's a strange-looking village." "Sure, it is. Made all of reindeer skins and walrus pelts.
"Well, since you mention it but it's givin' you a 'eap of trouble. If you 'ave such a thing as a bun, it don't matter 'ow stale." "I can do better 'n that." Mrs. Damper dived into the inner room, and re-emerged with a plateful of scraps. "There's always waste with children," she explained, "and I got five. You can't think the load off one's shoulders when they're packed to school at nine o'clock.
"That" said he, turning a blackened thumb over his shoulder, "is a 'eap of gunpowder. It's just a going to be hexploded." There was no need to "clear everybody out." They went. And we found ourselves alone with the soldiers, who were laughing, and saying that the crowd had taken a big cast-iron tank for the heap of gunpowder.
"Only think, ma'am," said Mrs Brown, who was not usually judicious in her remarks, "only think if they've been an' fell hover a precipice." "Shocking!" exclaimed poor Mrs Sudberry, with a little shriek, as she clapped her hands on her eyes. "Poor Jacky, ma'am, p'raps 'e's lyin' hall in a mangled 'eap at the foot of a "
You go and play 'em somewhere else. "'It ain't a game, ses John Biggs; 'the tiger's in your 'ouse and we're going to kill it. Now, then, lads. "They all went in in a 'eap, pushing Bob Pretty in front of 'em, till the room was full. Only one man with a scythe got in, and they wouldn't 'ave let 'im in if they'd known. It a'most made 'em forget the tiger for the time.
He saw in succession the islands of Marileu, Falulu, Faïu, Namuniuto, Magur, Faraulep, Eap, Mogmog, and found at Manilla the sloop, the Möller which was waiting his arrival. The Caroline Archipelago embraces an immense space, and the Marianne Islands, as well as the Radak group, might fitly be included in it, as containing a population perfectly identical in race.
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