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"What you heven't got, Mester Dick," said the fen-man, showing his yellow teeth. "Bit of opium or a drop o' lodolum. Nay, I don't want you to send me owt. Neighbour Hick'thrift here'll get me some when he goes over to market." Hickathrift nodded, and after a little more conversation the party returned toward the boat. "Straange and thick to-night, Mester Dick," said Dave. "Be thicker soon.

Even though there might come a cheque on the Saturday morning, which both Fenwick and the bailiff thought to be probable, still there would be grave difficulties. "Here'll be the first of September on us afore we know where we are," said the bailiff, "and is we to go on with the horses?"

So, if ye like, Jerry here'll make up a bunk to ye, and I'll see that your mother, puir soul, doesna want for onything. Sandy Ericson was a good man, as everybody kens, and his widow maun be cared for." Now this unexpected offer of employment was a thing that I had reason to be very grateful for, as I did not neglect to show.

Abe Franklin'll have to go out of this shop in precious short order, or every man here'll bolt next Saturday night. There! now I've done, sir, and you can fire away." But as he showed no signs of "firing away," and stood still, pondering, Jim broke out again: "Beg pardon, sir. If I've said anything you don't like, sorry for it. It's because Mr.

Max here'll go along the ladders and steady you if you swing too much. Wait a minute, though." He hurried out of doors, and returned with a light line, one end of which he made fast to the box, the other he gave to Max. "Now," he said, "you can guide it as nice as walking upstairs."

I wouldn't hurt her feelin's for the world; but now that I am here, havin' kem eight thousand miles, wouldn't it be too hard to give up the very experience I've been pinin' an' pantin' fur? A man can't get to feel like canned goods every time! Me and the Judge here'll fix up this thing in no time, an' then you'll come back, an' we'll all laugh together!

They say the ladies gave their silk dresses for it. Here'll be a strip of purple and here one of white with roses on it, and here it is black, and here it is yellow as gold. They melted rubber car-springs in naphtha and varnished it with that, and they're going to fill it with city gas at the gas works " The bubbles floated in the clear air, above and beyond the zone of smoke.

"Please don't ever tell I told you," were Huck's first words when he got in. "Please don't I'd be killed, sure but the widow's been good friends to me sometimes, and I want to tell I WILL tell if you'll promise you won't ever say it was me." "By George, he HAS got something to tell, or he wouldn't act so!" exclaimed the old man; "out with it and nobody here'll ever tell, lad."

"Oh, you'll see him all right all right," O'Brien returned with a laugh, while the men at the bar grinned over at the card players. "Guess you boys'll see him later all you need." Then his eyes flashed in Charlie's direction, and he winked at those near him. "Maybe some folks around here'll hate the sight of him before long."

These men came out into the aisle, so that Meyers had to shove through them. "This here'll do as well as any, I guess," said Meyers. He drew Mr. Trimm past him into the seat nearer the window and sat down alongside him on the side next the aisle, settling himself on the stuffy plush seat and breathing deeply, like a man who had got through the hardest part of a not easy job. "Smoke?" he asked.