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"By Jove! there are the rabbits," said Frank, levelling his gun. "Jeerusalem! so they air," exclaimed Mr Lathrope. "Dew let me hev the first shot!" "All right; fire away!" replied Mr Meldrum, who was ready to aim at a couple of the little creatures that were sitting up on a fragment of rock right opposite the three sportsmen, apparently combing their whiskers and eyeing them curiously the while.
"One evenin' I was sittin' in th' fo'c's'le patiently listenin' ter th' horrible language in which they reproached me because one o' 'em had managed t' break a front tooth in biting a bit o' th' salt pork they'd had for dinner, which was certainly no fault o' mine, when one of 'em, an English chap he was, an' the worst grumbler of all, suddenly cries: "'Jeerusalem, wouldn't I give somethin' fer a drop of beer just now.
'I'll go out 'n' get my friend. "'Be they two of ye? says he. 'Jeerusalem, I told Orphy they wa'n't but one. "When I gets back with Peewee, the old gazink pushes a couple of chairs at us. "'Set right down, boys, he says, ''n' make yourselves mis'able. Then he puts a chew in his face that would choke a he-elephant 'n' begins to ask us questions.
I oughter ha' seen most things, for I hail from the unlimited side of the Atlantic Ocean, and I haive travelled right slick over the Limited, head on, through Jeerusalem and the East, and likeways France and Italy, Europe, Old World, and I am now upon the track to the Chief European Village; but such an Institution as Yew and Yewer fixins, solid and liquid, afore the glorious Tarnal I never did see yet!
"I got down to a little run, near by, steppin' as soft as a cat. I could just see a white stun on the side o' it. I lifted my foot to step on the stun an' jump acrost. B-r-r-r-r! The stun jumped up an' scampered through the bushes. Then I was scairt. Goshtalmighty! I lost confidence in everything. Seemed so all the bushes turned into bears. Jeerusalem, how I run!
Two men were pacing up and down in front of him. 'You're a nice lot, you are, I said, 'to go running down Channel at ten knots an hour without any watch, a-walking over ships and a-drowning of seamen. I'll have the law of ye, see if I don't. "'Jeerusalem! said one, 'who have we here?
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