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I looked at him with mouth and eyes agape. He spat again, and waved a claw towards the forward bulkhead. "They'll do it for yeh," he said. "You're such a green goose, it makes me sick a bit. You hevn't reckoned out the chances, not quite. It's a kind of dead reckoning yeh hevn't had call to make. Eh?" "What do you mean?" I asked, bewildered.

He took a second puff, raised his eyes from hers to the ceiling, and his broad face crinkled into a grin, the like of which his wife had never seen before on his countenance. 'Old girl, he said, 'when I sees you first I sez, "There's the filly for my money;" and so you was. And, by Criky! you and me hevn't reached the last jump yet no, sir.

An' it bein' so late an' me sleepin', too, it looks ez ef the warriors ought to hev us." "But they hevn't, Sol. All safe." "No, Tom, they hevn't got us, an' now, hevin' learned from your long an' volyble conversation that it ain't tomorrer an' that we are free, 'stead o' bein' taken captive an' bein' burned at the stake by the Injuns, I'm feelin' mighty fine."

She's a good girl, Lo. She's all I hev." Lois brought a box over, lugging it heavily. "We hevn't chairs; but yoh'll sit down, Mr. Holmes?" laughing as she covered it with a cloth. "It's a warrm place, here. Father studies 'n his watch, 'n' I'm teacher," showing the torn old spelling-book. The old man came eagerly forward, seeing the smile flicker on Holmes's face. "It's slow work, master, slow.

That canyon or valley will hev water in it, an' bein' so sheltered it's bound to hev grass, too. What more could you ask? Thar we'll stay till times grow better." "You've arranged it all mighty well in your mind." "An' that bein' the case, let's go on, an' see ef I hevn't arranged it right."

"Ther' hain't nobody in Gopher that 'ud take a feller up fur a reward," replied the squire, studiously oblivious of Jude's denial; "but it's a nice mornin' fur a walk. Ye can't miss the trail an' git lost, ye know. An', seein' yer hevn't staked any claim, an' so hain't got any to dispose of, mebbe yer could git, inside of five minutes."

Though I hevn't thanked ye half anoof for the comfiter the wrapraskil, as they call't. My feckins, it's a beauty. But ye look very whaite and sadly, Miss Tiny; I doubt ye're poorly; an' this walking i' th' wet isn't good for ye. 'O yes, it is indeed, said Caterina, hastening out, and taking up her umbrella from the kitchen floor. 'I must really go now; so good-bye.

"Oh, bother yer meridians! I ain't seen one o' the things yet nor you hevn't, either, Phoebe Wise!" Phoebe was not convinced. It seemed not at all unreasonable, after all, that they should lose time without undergoing any physical change. She concluded to argue the matter no further, however. Their meal was eaten in silence.

Captain James Cook made his name famous among Englishmen of the sea, and I hevn't come across the woman yet I considered worthy to share it." "You may meet her soon now, Captain. There is a 'new woman' very much the fashion these days. Perhaps you have not seen her yet." "I have seen her, sir. I have seen all I want to see of her.

But I'm dyin', Sam, and it's cos you've killed me." "Good God, Mary!" cried the astonished Sam, jumping up; "yure crazy here, doctor!" "Doctor can't do no good, Sam; keep still, and listen, ef yer love me like yer once said yer did; for I hevn't got much breath left," gasped the woman. "Mary," said the aggrieved Sam, "I swow to God I dunno what yer drivin' at."