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"Hooroo! capting," shouted Larry, jumping up with delight; "mind yer fut, capting, dear; don't come in." "Why not?" inquired the captain, as he lifted the curtain. "Sure, it's no use tellin' ye now!" said Larry, as Captain Bunting fell head-foremost into Ah-wow's arms, and drove that worthy creature as he himself would have said "stern-foremost" into the mud and water at the bottom.
I wisht the Lord 'ud take us out of it altogether," she added dismally; "I'd sooner be in the old gully-hole at wanst nor be goin' to the poorhouse, and, dear knows, that's where we'll have to go." "Not wan bit, then," cried Pat resolutely, "not wan fut will ye iver put in the poorhouse, woman, nor me neither. We'll be back in the ould place here yit, see if we aren't.
In Matching's Easy, as Mr. Britling presently explained to Mr. Direck, there are half-a-dozen old people who have never set eyes on London in their lives and do not want to. "Aye-ya!" "Fussin' about thea." "Mr. Robinson, 'e went to Lon', 'e did. That's 'ow 'e 'urt 'is fut." Mr.
Lord Meikleham lifted his hat. "Allow me to congratulate you," he said. "Ye 're my first fut," returned the bride eagerly yet modestly, as she held out to him the glass of whisky. "This is to console me for not being in the bridegroom's place, I presume; but notwithstanding my jealousy, I drink to the health of both," said the young nobleman, and tossed off the liquor.
"'Sweet Maria, dear my life must be Since it is worthy care from thee; Yet life I hold but idle breath, When love or honor's weighed with death! "Ough! stop thet! who's got hold o' my fut?" "Hush your racket, you little fool," I said angrily. "Do you want the whole Yankee army to trap us here like rats? I cannot get up this chimney any farther; it is growing too small to permit my body to pass."
"Go ahead, man," said Long Jack, impatiently. "We're not drawin' twenty-five fut off Fire Island in a fog. There's no trick to ut." "Don't be jealous, Galway." The released lead plopped into the sea far ahead as the schooner surged slowly forward. "Soundin' is a trick, though," said Dan, "when your dipsey lead's all the eye you're like to hev for a week. What d'you make it, Dad?"
Their wages was on a table forninst a big, fine, red buck av a man sivun fut high, four fut wide, an' three fut thick, wid a fist on him like a corn-sack. He was payin' the coolies fair an' easy, but he wud ask each man If he wud raffle that month, an' each man sez, 'Yes, av course.
Did you iver have onendin' devilmint an' nothin' to pay for it in your life, sorr? 'Never, without having to pay, I said. 'That's thrue! 'Tis mane whin you considher on ut; but ut's the same wid horse or fut. A headache if you dhrink, an' a belly-ache if you eat too much, an' a heart-ache to kape all down. Faith, the beast only gets the colic, an' he's the lucky man.
"O sweet and dear hope of my remaining days; O Sister, whose friendship, so fertile in resources, shares all my sorrows, and with a helpful arm assists me in the gulf! Ce fut dans ton Senat, O fouqueuse Angleterre! Ou ce monstre inhumain fit eclater la guerre: It was from thy Senate, stormful England, that she first launched out War.
"Cet homme peu connu d'ailleurs etoit Milanois de naissance, conseiller on fils de conseiller au senat de Milan; il vivoit du tems de Galeas Marie, duc de Milan, qui fut tue l'an 1476, et du Pape Sixte IV., qui mourut en 1484.
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