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Updated: May 12, 2025
"I want to tell yeh, young sir, ther' hain't no bugs in this 'ouse. If ther's one thing I'm pertickler 'bout, it's bugs. John sez to me, sez 'e, 'What's the hodds of a bug or two, Hianthy? But I sez to 'im, sez I, 'No bugs fer me, John. I hain't been brought up with bugs, an' bugs I cawn't an' won't 'ave."
Gads! what hodds to them, please your Honor, what Darby is a-dooin' up in Lunnun, or what Lewis-Philup is a-dooin' with the Frenchers?" And the ruddy farmer-gentleman stirs his toddy afresh, lays his right leg caressingly over his left leg, admires his white-topped boots, and is the picture of British complacency.
"New people are coming all the time and they'll beat us in if we don't look out." His comrade shrugged. "Mebbe so; but s'posin' dey do. Wat's de hodds? She's beeg countree; dere's plenty claims." "Are there, really?" Phillips' eyes brightened. "You're an old- timer; you've been 'inside. Do you mean there's plenty of gold for all of us?" "Dere ain't 'nuff gold in all de worl' for some people."
"They're not for Keogh," said Charlie. "They're for me. I've taken Keogh's block over." The old man looked at him dubiously. "Well, but y'aint goin' to tie hup no dorg on us for 'em, are yer? I s'pose it's all right, though?" "Right, yes," said Gordon. "It's for Mr. Grant, Old Man Grant, you've heard of Grant of Kuryong?" "Never 'eard of him," said the aged man, "but it makes no hodds.
The odd numbers shifted to the right of the gun, the evens to the left, but numbers "4" and "6," being apparently under the impression that it was a game of "musical chairs," found themselves on the right instead of the left. "Too many odds," shouted the sergeant. "The British Army be used to 'eavy hodds, but not that sort. Nos. 4 and 6 get over to the near side." "Halt! Action front!"
After all, her total loss of hearing made little difference, her sentiments being what Bobby Frog in his early days would have described in the words, "Wot's the hodds so long as you're 'appy?" But Bobby had now ceased to drop or misapply his aitches though he still had some trouble with his R's.
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