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I've got neither chick nor child to think about and take care of, so my only pleasure in life be to build good ships and make good money with 'em. "Now, Garge, when I sat listenin' to you talkin' last night, I says to myself `There's money, and lots of it, in that there adventure o' Garge's, if 'tis only worked right.

"Because," answered a comrade with an expressive wink, "it's Garge's birthday, Garge Washington, you know, the daddy of his counthry!" "Oh, to be sure!" responded the other, meditatively, taking a whiff or two at his pipe to see that it was really lighted before he threw the match overboard. "To be sure! And it's a great mon that same Garge must have bin, a great mon, Dinnis. Sure, St.

Why, on Christmas we didn't have no holiday divil a bit of it just a bite more to ate for dinner, with no shore leave, and the haythens working us and working thimsilves all day as if it had been an ordinary Chuesday 'stead of Christmas, which is Christ's birthday, while on Garge's birthday the whole ship cilibrates. Ah, he certainly must have bin a great mon, that same Garge."

This startling instance of the stern morality of aristocratic womanhood was unfortunately wasted on Barrant, whose thoughts had reverted to the principal preoccupation of his mind. Mr. Portgartha rambled on. "Aw, but it's strange to be meetin' you like this, in old Garge's wagonette.

'Yes, Garge, my faithful friend sarve me in the back with two fut o carvin-knife, while I was chattin with Garge's pals. "At that Fat George snatches the musket and pulls. "I heard the click of the hammer, but there was never so much as a flash in a pan. "'Thank you, thank you, Fatty, my friend, says the French feller. 'But you know you'd make better shooting, if I hadn't wetted your priming.