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"Friends," he said, "and mates, and respected genelmen hall, we are here, two and three gathered togetherlike, for the purpose of horganizing a Band of 'Ope." "Local Number One," interrupted Billy Dutton, the donkey-man, who had had some trades'-union experience. "Band of 'Ope, Local Number One," continued Mr. Bob, receiving the suggestion in an accommodating spirit.
'Highly considerate, said the passenger. 'It's my great aim and end to be considerate, sir, rejoined Squeers. 'Snawley, junior, if you don't leave off chattering your teeth, and shaking with the cold, I'll warm you with a severe thrashing in about half a minute's time. 'Sit fast here, genelmen, said the guard as he clambered up. 'All right behind there, Dick? cried the coachman.
I pick out what I know make de best pie, putting in plenty of pepper for dat, I guess, would suit de taste ob de genelmen and den I cover the whole ober wid thick crust. It take de night and the next day to bake, and when it am ready de cappen and his officers, and some friends from de shore, dey all say dat dey nebber eat any pie like it; and I laugh, and say, "I make better one anoder day."
"Ladies and genelmen," he said he always added the gentleman as if they were an after-thought "you are mos' fortunate, mos' locky. Tout Paris all the folks are still driving their 'orse an' carriage 'ere. One week more the style will be all gone what you say vamoosed? Every mother's son! An' Cook's excursion party won't see nothin' but ole cabs goin' along!"
"'No, my friend, says he, 'it was the late lamented Diamond's. Now it's our noble Emperor's, Gorblessim! a derelict picked up on the igh seas by one of His Majesty's frigates." The treble ceased. "Pretty position for the genelmen o the Gap Gang, ain't it?" came the black and bitter voice. "Shot takin the place, or hung if you don't."
"Stop a minute, young genelmen," said he, going to a cupboard in a corner, and taking out a black teapot at least what should have been black, but it was all over flour. "There," he said, "that's what I always keeps there to drink when too much dust gets down my throat."
Stopping before the portrait of an officer in uniform, he drew us all together. The Canadians, headed by Mr. Pabbley, were well to the fore, and it was to them in particular that he appeared to address himself when he said, "Take a good look at this picture, ladies and genelmen. There is a man wat lives in your 'istory an', if I may say, in your 'art as he does in ours.
'He has fell into bad company, you see, genelmen, pursued the father, looking wistfully at both, and evidently taking the Major into the conversation with the hope of having his sympathy. 'He has got into bad ways. God send he may come to again, genelmen, but he's on the wrong track now!
See, if you drives all them plugs well through her, and they sticks out good an' proper outside, it ain't so hard to grope around under the mud an' grab a holt on 'em. Then 'tain't very hard, genelmen, to paddle away a bit o' mud about each bunch o' plugs, an' when that's done, 'tis about all done. I'll lash a wire to them long plugs, and stretch her right along th' ship.
"Genelmen," he said, when at last he had somewhat recovered, "you've listened to our horders, and I'll honly remind you that them that hain't with us is agin us, as Saint Paul says. Back-sliders and goats may return to the bar, but me and the fleecy sheep is agoing to see this thing through, and do our dooty hunder the regilations by Board of Trade happointed.
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