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There's the shoe-black business, then. Bill. That ain't so bad, acause you can shoulder your box and trudge. But if it's all the same to you, Mattie, I'd rayther enj'y life: they say it's short. Mat. But it ain't the same to me. It's so bad for you to be idle, Bill! Bill. Not as I knows on. I'm tollable jolly, so long's I gets the browns for my bed. Mat.
"I think we'd enj'y seein' 'em do all that," said Shorty, laughing at the picture Si had drawn. "I reckon most of 'em 'd peter out purty quick, and I'd like to hear what sort o' speeches they'd, make then. I tell ye, Si, there's a big diff'rence 'tween goin' yerself an' tellin' some other feller to go."
Hugh Littlepage is rich, and his money gives him advantages that other men can't enj'y. Now, that sticks in some folks' crops." "Oh! den it ist meant to divite broperty in dis coontry; und to say no man might haf more ast anudder?" "Folks don't go quite as far as that, yet; though some of their talk does squint that-a-way, I must own.
'Twon't do any of us any harm; and I really feels as though I could go ashore and lie down under the shade of them trees all day, and do nothing but just enj'y the rest and the coolness, and ease my old eyes by looking up at the beautiful green leaves, with the clear blue sky peeping between 'em here and there."
Well, I don't care. He's paid me up till to-night. I'm going to enj'y myself, I am." "Don't you get drunk, Mrs. Kebby, or I'll lock you up." "Garn!" grunted the old beldame. "Wot's Christmas Eve for, if it ain't for folk to enj'y theirselves? Y'are on duty early." "I'm taking the place of a sick comrade, and I'll be on duty all night. That's my Christmas." "Well! well!
"For instance, a gentleman couldn't very well be expected to sit in a ditch and enj'y a crust o' bread an' cheese; 'is dignity wouldn't allow of it, now would it?" "Certainly not," said Barnabas. "Nor yet drink 'ome-brewed out of a tin pot in a inn kitchen." "Well, he might, if he were very thirsty," Barnabas ventured to think. But the Chapman scouted the idea.
All fancied slight at the term "servant" thus atoned for by the formal "Widow Sprigg," and her favor swiftly won by Kate's behavior with the trunk, the housekeeper departed in high good-humor, her cap-strings flying, spectacles pushed to the top of her head, and cheerily remarking: "So she shall, so she shall. I'll show her. For Johnny was the boy to eat an' enj'y his victuals.
Yes, truly, what a meal that was, and how the Ancient chuckled, and dug me with one bony elbow and George with the other, and chuckled again till he choked, and choked till he gasped, and gasped till he had us all upon our feet, then demanded indignantly why we couldn't let him "enj'y hisself in peace."
Waal, he stole another man's sunflower I've heerd Bob say so, hisself an' the other feller got mad as mad as thunder an', when he found his gal had vamosed with Bob, he cursed him; an' his curse was this: that as long as he lived all that he did should prosper for a little while, an' jest when he begun to enj'y it, a curse should come onto it.
"Why, the draught you got from the nigger who is now coming back across the square, as you call it, and which you seemed to enj'y particularly. I am dry, myself, and should wonderfully like a drink." "Oh! that fellow sells 'white wine, and you will find it delicious. If you want your 'bitters, as you call them, you cannot do better than stop him, and give him a penny."
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