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"Can't always tell what?" demands Auntie. "About things not happenin' out here," says I. "But, Torchy," says Vee, "what could possibly happen here; that is, like those things in town?" I shrugs my shoulders and shakes my head. "How absurd!" says Vee. Auntie gives me one of them cold storage looks of hers. "I have usually noticed," says she, "that things do not happen of themselves.
'Yer father winna ate a moufu' gien ye dinna: ye'll see that! Eh, Steenie, she broke out, 'gien ye wad but tak yer supper and gang to yer bed like the lave o' 's! It gars my hert swall as gien 't wud burst like a blob to think o' ye oot i' tho mirk nicht! Wha's to tell what michtna be happenin ye!
The consequence was that when all the hawsers had been let go exceptin' the quarter rope which I was tendin' to the Cap'n, Mr Saint Leger, and about half a dozen more was still on the wharf while an off-shore wind happenin' to be blowin' at the time the ship's head had paid off until 'twas pointing out to sea, while there was about a couple o' fathoms of space atween the ship's quarter and the wharf.
"If you go strainin' yourself over little witticisms like that," observed young Gunner Oke gloomily, "one of these days you'll be heving the Dead March played over you before you know what's happenin': and then, perhaps, you'll laugh on t'other side of your mouth." Uncle Issy gazed around upon the company. They were eyeing him, one and all, in deadly earnest, and he crept away.
"It's like the lull before the storm," she said with her strange laugh. But the non-imaginative Collinson was more practical. "It's mighty like that earthquake weather before the big shake thet dried up the river and stopped the mill. That was just the time I got the news o' your bein' dead with yellow fever. Lord! honey, I allus allowed to myself thet suthin' was happenin' to ye then."
"Well, Mr Carter, sir, and gen'lemen, Mike here and me follered along the path that the savages had took, for a matter of a couple o' mile, when we hears a tremenjous hullabaloo of niggers shoutin', and tom-toms beatin', and dogs barkin', and what not, so we knowed that we was pretty close aboard a native village, as they calls 'em, so we shortened sail and got in among the bushes, creepin' for'ard until we could see what was happenin'. And when at last we was able to get a pretty clear view, the sight we saw was enough to freeze a man's blood.
I might have known there was no place on top of this footstool where E. G. W. Scraggs could rest his weary feet without some female happenin' in the same spot at the same time. I should have took William's advice, but it was now too late. "We stood around kinder awk'ard, with her brushin' snow from herself, till I says, 'Well, good-evenin', ma'am.
Whereby the men had scarcely reached the top afore Cap'n Crang comes up from his cabin an' along the deck, not troublin' to cast an eye aloft. Whereby he missed what was happenin'. Whereby he had just come abreast of the mainmast, when sock at his very feet there drops a man. 'Twas Eli, that had missed his hold, an' dropped somewhere on the back of his skull.
The boy struggled furiously to free himself. "Me want dinner milk," he shouted, and beat the gambler's chest with both his little fists. "You kicked Dougal!" wailed Vada, from under Sunny's arm. And at that moment a mild voice reached them from the open doorway "Why, what's happenin'?" Bill and Sunny turned at once. And the next instant the children were shrieking in quite a different tone.
What did I tell you?" persisted Mrs Climoe, attempting to thrust herself past. "This is my house," retorted Mrs Penhaligon, bravely heading her off. "If my children but I could take my oath, here afore th' Almighty " "You ask Mr Nanjivell! Why d'ee reckon he's puttin' a lock on his doorway, 'nless 'tis to prevent what I'm tellin' you from happenin' again?" Mrs Penhaligon stared about her.
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