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Updated: June 16, 2025
I do confess that I don't half like it, but, after all, what have we got to do weth the opinions of owld aunts or uncles? If a gurl do choose to go off wi' the man she likes, that's no matter to we, an' if I be well paid for lendin' a hand, why shouldn't I? But it do puzzle me, Mr Tregarthen, to guess how yow did come to knaw of it." "That don't signify," said Tregarthen sternly.
"I've knowed 'im for years, sir. I shall only be too pleased to 'ave any friend of 'is in my 'ouse, I assure you." "That's well. Now, Mrs Butt, my motive in coming here is to discover a runaway relation " "La! sir a little boy?" "No, Mrs Butt, a " "Surely not a little gurl, sir," said the landlady, with a sympathetic expression.
"Wot does she mean by knockin' of 'im down?" asked a small butcher's boy, who had come on the scene just too late, of a small baker's boy who had, happily, been there from the beginning. "She means wot she says," replied the small baker's boy with the dignified reticence of superior knowledge, "she knocked the constable down." "Wot! a leetle gurl knock a six-foot bobby down? walk-er!"
"An' I happened to be close by thim whin a gurl come out. She was shure purty. But thot sad! Her eyes wor turrible hauntin', an' roight off I wanted to start a foight. She wor lookin' fer Durade, as I seen afterwards. "Wal, the minnit that Lee seen the gurl he acted strange. I wuz standin' close an' I went closer.
After a period of exile in regions where current literature is unobtainable one of the chief delights of a return to civilisation is "catching up" with the back numbers of Punch; nor, in spite of gibes to the contrary, has the paper ever been more brilliant than under its present editorship. Guess I've heard that tune on our street organs in New York ever since I was a gurl."
He worked at it whenever he could catch a few minutes between the marches and the numerous details for guard, picket, fatigue and other duty. "Bein' a soljer aint quite what they crack it up to be when they're gittin' a fellow to enlist. It's mity rough, and you'd better believe it. You ought to be glad you're a gurl and don't haf to go. I wish't I was a gurl sometimes.
"Jim, now hyar's a queer deal this feller has rung in on us. I thought thet kid was pretty young. Don't you remember Beasley told us Nell Rayner was a handsome woman?" "Wal, pard Anson, if this heah gurl ain't handsome my eyes have gone pore," drawled Wilson. "A-huh! So your Texas chilvaree over the ladies is some operatin'," retorted Anson, with fine sarcasm.
Kirby he didn't aim ter be seen at all, but just went 'long so thar wudn't be no mistake. Yer see, them papers hed ter be served afore they cud take away the niggers. Kirby wus goin' ter sell them down river, an' not bother 'bout the land fer awhile, till after he'd hed a chance ter shine up ter this yere gurl Eloise. He'd never seen her but, enyhow, he got thet notion in his hed."
Thin he began sootherin' her, an' all the orf'cers an' orf'cers' ladies left, an' they put out the lights. To explain the theory av the flight, as they say at Muskthry, you must understand that afther this Sweethearts' nonsinse was ended, there was another little bit av a play called Couples some kind av couple or another. The gurl was actin' in this, but not the man.
She was conspicuously a newcomer, and could not but overhear the comments that some of the watching young men made as she went by. "Say, what's that song about 'I'd leave my happy home for you, Bert?" she heard them say. "Don't ask me! I'm expecting my gurl any minute!" and "Pretty good year for peaches, I hear!"
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