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'First, because he's a Englisher, and second, because he's up again a American and besides, he has a tooth that's bucked. "'Buck or no buck, flares out Strokher, 'wot might be the meanin' o' that remark consernin' being a Englisher? "'The fact o' his bein' English, says Hardenberg, 'is only half the hoe-handle. 'Tother half being the fact that the first-named gent is all American.
He even went so far as to invite the Englisher to his own cabin, thereby greatly scandalizing his housekeeper a maiden sister of fifty-two, who had forestalled fate by declaring for the shelf at forty-nine. "What'll he be doing here?" the maiden demanded, indicating Timmins with accusatory finger on the occasion of his first visit.
Here's wot I propose that we-all takes an' lays out a sixteen-foot ring on the quarterdeck, an' that the raw-boned Yank and the stodgy Englisher strips to the waist, an' all-friendly-like, settles the question by Queensbury rules an' may the best man win. "Hardenberg looks him over. "'An' wot might be your weight? says he. 'I don't figure on hurtin' of you, if so be you're below my class.
Here's Archer, and another Yorker with him leastwise an Englisher I should say and Squire Conklin, and Bill Speers, and that white nigger Jem! Look sharp, I say! Look sharp, cuss you, else we'll pull off the ruff of the old humstead." In a few minutes Sam made his appearance, armed, like the rest, with a Queen Ann's tower-musket. "Well! well!" he said, "I'm ready. Quit making such a clatter!
Two watch the windows, and we'll go in. I guess it'll make the Englisher star'." The Englisher did stare as he tried to gaze through the darkness, and then, feeling satisfied that the new skipper had nothing to do with the American, I stepped softly back, trembling with eagerness and excitement, and made my way down to the boat.
"I have heard much of the virtues of the Highlanders of late, but this surprises me." "Hoots! Murderers?" she cried. "No such silly Saxon whimsies. They've got as many virtues as any Englisher that ever snivelled prayer and shortened yardstick. Murderers! Hoots, my mannie! Just removers of difficulties!"
The elder smoked on. "Why?" "Weel," the elder spoke slowly to the clouds, "I'm no obliged to quote chapter an' verse, but for the sake of argyment forbye should Janet marry on an Englisher when there's good Scotchmen running loose?" This was a "poser."
And the name stuck, and he was no more known as the "Englisher." "Any letters for the Apoos-tate?" The postmaster would mouth the question, repeating it after Timmins when he called for his mail. Small boys yelled the obnoxious title as he passed the log school on the corner; wee girls gazed after him, fascinated, as upon one destined for a headlong plunge into the lake of fire and brimstone.
He kept pointing out the filth of his own clothes, so I had some water given to him to wash them, but this did not satisfy him at all. It was not the cleanliness of our uniforms he admired, but the cut and material. Perhaps this was policy, for generally the Turkish prisoners would remark: "Englisher very good German damn bad!"
Edward's tendency to mirth did not escape mine host of the Candlestick, who, conscious of the cause, infused a double portion of souring into the pharisaical leaven of his countenance, and resolved internally that, in one way or other, the young 'Englisher' should pay dearly for the contempt with which he seemed to regard him.
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