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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Zo agein' quick as that!" commented Joltram with a broad grin. "For zure 'e be a man grow'd! Tha'll be puttin' the breechez on 'im an' zendin' 'im to the school " "Never!" interrupted Tom defiantly. "They'll never catch my kiddie if I know it! I want him for myself, others shall have no part in him.
Missions have always emphasized the importance of the children from a purely propaganda point of view. But our Children's Home was not begun for any such reason. Like Topsy, "it just grow'd." I had been summoned to a lonely headland, fifty miles from our hospital at Indian Harbour, to see a very sick family.
That 'ere means I had my ha'r lifted ten years ago. The Sioux war the skunks that done it. After they took my top-knot off. It had grow'd on ag'in and that's why they call me Baldy. In the mean time the door had been closed, and all secured.
"After we'd camped there 'bout three hours, the cattle full of grass and all laying down chewing their cud, we concluded to move on and make a few miles before it grow'd too hot, and to get further from the Ingins, which we expected would tackle us again, as soon as they could get back from their camp, where we felt sure they had gone for reinforcements.
From telling 'em so often, he forgets whether he grow'd 'em or dreamt 'em, and so he stands' right up on end, kisses the book, and swears to 'em, as positive as the Irishman did to the gun, which he said he know'd ever since it was a pistol. Now, that's Bunkum.
But only to think that my Bobby," she added, quitting her leaning-post, and again seizing her son, "that my Bobby should 'ave grow'd up, an' his poor mother knowed nothink about it! I can't believe my eyes it ain't like Bobby a bit, yet some'ow I know it's 'im! Why, you've grow'd into a gentleman, you 'ave." "And you have grown into a flatterer," said Bob, with a laugh.
'Well, he rejoined, 'don't matter where a feller's born nor grow'd, only he's got the right sort o' bone and siners in him. The general appearance of things had mightily changed since I last visited the place in truth, I could scarcely believe my own eyes. Mr. Prompt now drew forth a handful of long nines, said he never liked to smoke alone, and invited me to join him.
Then there's no water to give light to the pictur, and no sun to cheer it; and the hedges are all square; and the lime trees are as stiff as an old gall that was once pretty, and has grow'd proud on the memory of it. "I don't like their landscape a bit, there ain't no natur in it.
"'I didn't say you had, sais I, 'for I knew you hadn't afore you spoke. "'How did you know that? said she. "'Because, sais I, 'seein' so handsome a lady as you, I thought you was one of the professors; and then I thought you must be the mistress herself, and was a thinking how likely she had grow'd since I seed her last. Are you one of the class-teachers?
'It's Heart's Delight! said the Captain, looking intently in her face. 'It's the sweet creetur grow'd a woman! Captain Cuttle was so respectful of her, and had such a reverence for her, in this new character, that he would not have held her in his arms, while she was unconscious, for a thousand pounds.
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