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Wanted to earn my own way. And this young feller I'm tellin' you about went away to sea, but every time he come home from a voyage he come to see me and things went on that way till we was promised to each other. The engagement wa'n't announced, but 'twas so, just the same. We'd have been married in another year. And then we quarreled. "'Twas a fool quarrel, same as that kind gen'rally are.
But he shall have his home if he is honest, without swimming across the ocean to find it." "Wall, now, that's fair enough fer anybody. Hey, Mary! Come on out and git acquainted with yer neighbor's girl. Likely-lookin' young woman," he passed judgment, nodding towards Teresita. "Skittish, mebby young blood most gen'rally is, when there's any ginger in it. What's yer name, mister?
I was just wishin' I knew how to work the force pump like Aunt Laura, when we pulls up at the horse block, and it was up to me to think of some new move. "She's here, is she?" says Mr. William. "You bet!" says I, wondering who he thought I meant. And then I gets that funny feelin' I gen'rally has when I takes the high jump. "Come on," says I. "We'll give her a surprise." It wa'n't anything else.
"What's the matter?" queried Burton sourly. "I told Clancy I didn't think you'd come. Seein' you sort o' surprised me." "What made you think I wouldn't come?" demanded Burton. "Oh, the way you acted, the way you talked, and your low-down character, gen'rally." Burton flushed and scowled. Turning away from Hill he addressed himself to Clancy. "Here I am," said he.
"Hey?" he exclaimed, looking up. "Did you speak?" "I said 'Well?. I suppose that's speakin'?" "'Well? Well what?" "Oh, nothin'! I was just wonderin' " "Wonderin' what?" "I was wonderin' if that letter was anything important. Ain't you goin' to open it and see?" "Hey? Open it? Oh, yes, yes. Well, I shouldn't wonder if I opened it some time or other, Zuba. I gen'rally open my letters.
He was turrible sot on them children, like us pore folks gen'rally is. They was reel fine-lookin' at first. "When all the rest of 'em had went, her pa he sort o' sot his heart on Louisa here. 'For we ain't got nothin' else, ma, says he. 'An' please the good Lord, we're a-goin' to give this one book-learnin' an' sich, an' so be she'll miss them mills, he says.
Yorke he gen'rally rides th' black, Parson, so ye'll take th' sorrel, Fox, for yeh pathrols. He's a good stayer, an' fast. Ye'll want tu watch him at mounthin' tho' he's not a mane harse, but he has a quare thrick av turnin' sharp tu th' 'off' just as ye go tu shwing up into th' saddle.
I never asked nobody what they wished aboard the Ezry H. Jones." "And do they tell them to 'sit down and keep still'?" "Gen'rally they tell 'em to get up and keep movin'. If they don't they start 'em pretty lively with a rope's end." "I see. Even when they are ladies?" "Ladies? Godfreys! we never had but one woman aboard the Ezry.
You'll never guess it. "'Give me three guesses and I'll win on the fust, says Nate. 'You two are engaged. "They looked at him as if he'd done somethin' wonderful. 'But, Uncle, says Gus, shakin' hands again, 'just think! she's actually consented to marry me. "'Well, that's gen'rally understood to be a part of engagin', ain't it? says Nate. 'I'm glad to hear it.
The owners had given up, so Captain Zeb said, and went on to enumerate the various accidents which might have happened typhoons, waterspouts, fires, and even attacks by Malay pirates though, added the captain, "Gen'rally speakin', I'd ruther not bet on any pirate gettin' away with Nat Hammond's ship, if the skipper was alive and healthy.
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