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'We must try and find 'omes for 'em when they are old enough, he says at last; 'I'll go round myself and see wot I can do for you. "Henery Walker thanked 'im and went off 'ome doing a bit o' thinking; and well he 'ad reason to. Everybody wanted one o' them kittens. Peter Gubbins offered for to take two, and Mr.
He was standing at 'is gate in the dark, next day, smoking a pipe, when Peter Gubbins passed, and Peter, arter stopping and asking 'im for a light, spoke about 'is luck in getting the hamper, and told 'im he didn't bear no malice for it. "You 'ad the pluck to draw fust," he ses, "and you won."
Where could poor Tom Strachan have got to? The sun was sinking fast, there would not be much more daylight, and if he were not found soon he might be left without help all night. For Green would not think of him as dead, and no more for that matter did Gubbins, though Davis had given up all hope long ago. But he did not say so.
Gubbins poured some water into it, stirred them together till the powder was damped through, and with this made a train some five feet long to the dry powder. The party at the wall were now hotly engaged with a mass of advancing enemy. "Fall back, Mr. Johnson, quickly. Sound the retreat, bugler. Go along, lads; I'll light the train."
"`I give in, said Toney. "`Come along then, said his visitor. "Toney crawled out and up the ladder of the main hatchway. He found that he was on board a brigantine, a rakish-looking craft, with several officers standing aft by the captain, and a numerous crew, among whom he saw Joe Gubbins.
I see; the Reverend Mr Gubbins well, what did he say about the bonnet?" "W'at did he say? ah! he say much mor'n I kin remember, an' he look at the bonnet with's head a one side so sad an' pitiful like. `Ah! Betsy Waroonga, ses he, `this just the thing for you. Put it on an' take it to Ratinga, it'll press the natives there." "Impress them, you mean, Betsy." "Well, p'raps it was that.
"Fire!" shouted the officer, but a cry of dismay alone answered his words, and in a moment the British rushed on to the guns, and bayoneted the astonished and dismayed enemy. Then they separated each to the work assigned to them, while Mr. Gubbins, with a man with the lantern, went from gun to gun and drove a nail down the touchhole of each. Then he followed into the house behind.
He was standing at 'is gate in the dark, next day, smoking a pipe, when Peter Gubbins passed, and Peter, arter stopping and asking 'im for a light, spoke about 'is luck in getting the hamper, and told 'im he didn't bear no malice for it. "You 'ad the pluck to draw fust," he ses, "and you won."
The brigantine, during a heavy gale one night, was struck by lightning and blew up, Toney and two others only finding themselves floating among the wreck. Joe Gubbins was one of these. Toney managed to get hold of the mainmast and clambered into the top, where he got his legs out of the water and was trying to help Joe Gubbins, when Joe, with a shriek, disappeared.
'Trusting this will make the position perfectly clear to you, and that you will be under no further anxiety with regard to your consignments to us, now, or at any future time. We are, dear Mr. Gubbins, yours faithfully, In the same unexceptional style I wrote to four other clients, after very careful perusal of their letters, combined with reflections upon Mr. John's running commentaries.
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