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'Pray, can you direct me to Billy Egg's? I asked, dropping the Mr altogether, and adopting the familiar term which had been used to me. 'Och, then, to be shure I will, an' welcome, if it was a mile off; but there it's just furnint ye that big grand shop there, wid the big letthers gilt wid goold over the big windees.
'Seems like a parson somehow. But he ain't a parson. 'Not he, said the other laconically. 'Knows better. Most of 'em as comes down 'ere stuffs all they have to say as full of goody-goody as an egg's full of meat. If he wur that sort you wouldn't catch me here.
Egg set down the milk glass swiftly, saying, "Why, Sadie!" "He he says he's your father, Mis' Egg." After a moment Mrs. Egg said, "Stuff and rubbidge! My father ain't been seen since 1882. What's the fool look like?" "Awful tall kinda skinny bald " A tremor went down Mrs. Egg's back. She walked through the sitting room and into the sunny hall. The front door was open.
So strongly did the old feeling still prevail that only three or four of her friends could be persuaded by the nuns to accompany the coffin up the trail. Exploding Egg's consignment of Aumia to Havaii, the underworld, spoke strongly of the clinging of his people to their old beliefs in the destiny of the spirit after death.
I had been told by two or three persons that Billy Egg's was the best shop in the place; for that, he being a general dealer on a very large scale, I should be sure to get 'everything in the world' there. Moreover, I had been instructed that he sold good articles at a cheap rate; and being a stranger, I felt truly glad that I had been recommended to a tradesman on whom I could confidently rely.
Yan's appetite was wholly gone now, to the grief of his kind entertainer, "Shure an' she'd fix him up something to stringthen him," and Yan had hard work to beg off. "Would ye like an aig," ventured Biddy. "Why, yes! oh, yes, please," exclaimed Yan, with almost too much enthusiasm. He thought, "Well, hens are pure-minded creatures, anyway. An egg's sure to be clean."
"Better keep your weather-eye liftin', Mr Dugdale, sir; that Jose's full of spite as an egg's full of meat; he have never forgiven you for knockin' him down, and have swore over and over again to put his knife into you. And now that he's full of drink, and the skipper's on his beam-ends, he's just as likely as not to try it." "Yes, I suppose he is.
On the way home, however, I thought there might be something in it, so I did go down to Scotland Yard next day, where I was received with as much civility as if I had been a lady of quality, and was taken to a room as full of umbrellas as an egg's full of meat almost. "`You'd know the umbrellar if you saw it, madam, said the polite constable who escorted me.
"It ought to be solid, seein' it has just been freighted up from Forty Mile. It'll take an ax to bust it." "Me for the ax," said Wild Water. Smoke brought the ax, and Wild Water, with the clever hand and eye of the woodsman, split the egg cleanly in half. The appearance of the egg's interior was anything but satisfactory. Smoke felt a premonitory chill. Shorty was more valiant.
'Old Pierre was too rheumatic, they soon found out, to be any use, in spite of his long head, which was as full of wisdom as an egg's full of meat. None but sound, able-bodied men will do for that work, I tell you. He was a queer old fish, Pierre was. Poor chap, he was a Roming, you know; but for all that he was, in his mistaken way, a pious, God-fearing man.
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