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Updated: May 18, 2025
'It on'y shows you wot you can do by trying. "He unlocked the door and came up on deck, looking at us very careful, and playing with 'is stick. "'You've got your money, ses the skipper; 'now go as quick as you can. "'Arry smiled and nodded at him. Then he stepped on to the wharf and was just moving to the gate, with us follering, when the wicket opened and in came Mrs. Muffit and Uncle Dick.
"And what's them thar cattle follering on behind?" he asked, pointing to a drove of milch-cattle in the rear. "Caouws," answered the immigrant, in the broad pronunciation peculiar to provincial people of the New England States. "All right," was the rejoinder; "a man that says 'caouws' can't go over this yere ferry withouten he's got the tickets."
"Where is she?" he said to Aleck once more. "It was her trail, I know it. Tell me the truth now, while you can talk." "You was follering right the way she went, far as I know," moaned Aleck. "How kin I tell where she went, after I was shot?" "After you was shot? Who shot you? Did she?" "I told you who shot me. It was them fellers." "Then why didn't they kill you, if they wanted to?
The actor-chap bolted out as if he'd been shot, and I was just thinking of follering 'im when the landlord's wife and 'is two daughters came rushing out and asking me wot I 'ad done to him. "There there was two of 'im!" ses the landlord, trembling and holding on to 'is wife's arm, as they helped 'im up and got 'im in the chair. "Two of 'im!" "Two of wot?" ses his wife.
Now I don't want none o' your langwidge, and I don't want you follering me like a couple o' cats arter a meat-barrer. I shall be 'aving a cup o' tea at Brown's coffee-shop by and by, and if you're there at five sharp I'll see wot I can do for you. Wot did you call me? "Ginger told 'im three times, and then Peter Russet dragged 'im away.
It was the only sound that came to them, and, while they were wondering what it meant, Ruggles reappeared among them with the noiselessness of a shadow. "It was a bear," he explained; "I think he scented the animals and was follering on the lookout for a chance at 'em." "Did you kill him?"
Now I don't want none o' your langwidge, and I don't want you follering me like a couple o' cats arter a meat-barrer. I shall be 'aving a cup o' tea at Brown's coffee-shop by and by, and if you're there at five sharp I'll see wot I can do for you. Wot did you call me? "Ginger told 'im three times, and then Peter Russet dragged 'im away.
Looking around in the gloom, Vose Adams saw that his friends stood on the ground. "Are you all ready?" he asked. "Yes," replied Brush from the rear. "Hold the bridle so gentle that you can let go if your animal slips off: if he has to go over the precipice, there's no need of your follering him."
Let's get her headed right, if we ever expect to turn the first mark. You see, 'twas this way: 'Twas in the early part of May follering the year that the "Old Home House" was opened. We'd had the place all painted up, decks holy-stoned, bunks overhauled, and one thing or 'nother, and the "Old Home" was all taut and shipshape, ready for the crew boarders, I mean.
"Ah! and you left me that morning, a fine, upstanding young country cove, but to-day ah, to-day you are a bang up blood a gent, inside and out, a-riding of a magnificent 'oss and all on account o' follering the instructions in that 'ere blessed tome as I sold you for five bob! And dirt-cheap at the money!"
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