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He laughed in every key, did my worthy host, and laughed until his sided ached, and his eyes streamed. "At me! hark at that! Did ye 'ear 'im say that they'd be upsettin' my opinions? Eh? Lud love you, sir, but you do say some queer things." "Well, Mr. Jellyband," said Mr. Hempseed, sententiously, "you know what the Scriptures say: 'Let 'im 'oo stands take 'eed lest 'e fall."
Go an' put your wicked 'ead under the pump this instant, you bad boy. As for you, my pore lamb, never 'eed 'im; 'e bean't so bad when 'e's sober. Come your ways along o' me, dearie." And folding me within one robust arm she brought me into that room that was half bar and half kitchen. "There!" she exclaimed, leading me to the great settle beside the fire.
"That'll be no sugar in your tea t'night, old viciousness! But, sir, I'd rayther not " "Don't 'eed 'im, Guv don't 'eed the flappin' flounder. If 'e wont obleege ye in a little matter like thirty dollars, I will I'll always obleege you " "That's enough from you, old tombstones."
"Zey are nod children; zey are nod 'igh an' well-born," said the baroness in rasping tones. "Then you must find some high and well-born children for me to play with," said the princess. "Moost? Moost?" cried the baroness in a high voice. "Bud eed ees whad I know ees goot for you." "They're good for me," said the princess firmly. "And you must find them."
Miss Lambart started in her chair; the baroness uttered a gasping grunt; she blinked; she could not believe her ears. "But whad but whad " she said faintly. "Old red peeg," said the princess, somewhat pleased with the effect of the words, and desirous of deepening it. "Bud whad ees eed zat 'appen?" muttered the bewildered baroness.
The baroness was taken aback by this so sudden and unexpected display of firmness in her little charge; her face darkened to a yet richer crimson; and she cried in a loud blustering voice: "Bud eed ees eembossible whad your royal highness ask! Zere are no 'igh an' well-born children 'ere. Zey are een Loondon."
I'm down at the heel o' my service An' when I am laid on the shelf, My very wust friend from beginning to end By the blood of a mouse was myself! Chorus. Ho! don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer: But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere, "Ay, listen to our little man now, singin' an' shoutin' as tho' trouble had niver touched him.
"Ghost, indeed!" And withering scorn was expressed in the very tone of her ejaculation. "When you're my hage you'll have learned to take no 'eed of such nonsense! There's no such a thing; and I'm surprised as a Catholic girl, born and bred, should be that superstitious! You mustn't believe such rubbish!"
Ho! don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer; But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere. 'Ay, listen to our little man now, singin' an' shoutin' as tho' trouble had niver touched him.
Beale amusedly, "blowed if the old cat didn't give one jump, and move in quick time up the chimney, where 'e now remains, paying no 'eed to the missis' attempts to get him down again." Sensation, as they say in the reports. "But he'll be cooked," cried Phyllis, open-eyed. "No, he won't. Nor will our dinner. Mrs. Beale always lets the kitchen fire out during the afternoon.
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