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Updated: May 23, 2025
Barnabas started, and looking about, presently espied a figure in the shadow of the osiers; a very small figure, upon whose diminutive jacket were numerous buttons that glittered under the moon. "Why it's Milo of Crotona!" said Cleone. "Yes, my lady hif you please, it are," answered Milo of Crotona, touching the peak of his leather cap. "But what are you doing here?
"Come," he ordered good-naturedly, "hasten breakfast and let there be no more quarreling." "Hif hi vas left to do me work hin peace " she began. "Well, you shall do it in peace." At this moment Mrs. Mumpson came tearing in, quite oblivious of the fact that she had left a goodly part of her calico skirt on a nail of the fence.
She's flew the coop at the place she was in it seems she's been shut up some'eres in America, sir; an' she got 'old of the capting of a tramp boat o' some kind one o' them boats as smells intoxicating round the 'atches an' she give 'im an' the mate a 'andful o' jewelry that she'd on 'er when she was took in an' 'ad someways contrived to 'ang on to, an' I'm blessed hif she wasn't able fer to steer fer the island, sir we took 'er aboard the yacht only this mornin' with 'er 'air down her back, an' we've brought 'er on here.
At this Dick grew warmer and more boisterous, maintaining that the boys ought not to pay Bob the stipulated price since they were so late in starting. "Hif folks haint ready I can't 'elp it," said Bob. "Who wasn't ready?" demanded Constance Faber. "You didn't wait for me, I know." "And you didn't wait for me or Mat Snead," added Sarah Ketchum, "because we walked down to meet the wagon."
"Hif you did that, hit's your own fault." "I wouldn't have done it, except to advertise my shoe business," said Terwilliger, ruefully.
"Yes, yes!" said Jack, "but vot hif ve should run foul of the henemy and be taken hup as belongin to these 'ere chaps, hif so be they're beaten, as I hope they vill?"
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