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Dead also was the friend who had travelled up with me, so full of boyish hope: both dead; the one in the full blaze of her triumph, the other in the first dawn of his young success: both dead and, but for me, both living yet and happy. Suddenly the countryman looked up and spoke. "Hav'ee seen this bit o' news? Astonishin'! And her so pretty too!" "What is it?" I asked vacantly.
Zeb answered it with a point-blank stare of bewilderment. The others took no notice of it whatever. "Hav'ee seen her, Zeb?" called out his father. "No." "Nor I nuther. 'Reckon 'tis all over a'ready. I've a-heard afore now," he went on, turning his back to the wind the better to wink at the company, "that 'tis lucky for some folks Gauger Hocken hain't extra spry 'pon his pins.
I dessay it took me half an hour to get out over the side: an' all the time I kept hold o' the broken oar. I dunno why I did this: but it saved my life afterwards. Hav'ee got such a thing as a drop o' cider in the house?" "We go upon temperance principles here," said Geake. He rose and brought a jug of water and a glass. "That'll do," said the wanderer, and helped himself.
"I want to start Jerseys," said Ishmael boldly; "I'm sure the better quality of the milk will more than make up for the greater cost of the stock." "Jerseys! ... well," said John-James, startled, "that's a new idea, surely. I don't knaw where 'ee'd get a bull to serve en. Hav'ee thought on that?" "I don't see why I shouldn't have a bull myself.
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