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They had gone a good two miles before Mary’s patroness broke the silence with, "Nothing plumb stampedes my temper like that Rodney outfit—old Sally buckin’ an’ pitchin’ in her rockin’-chair same as if she was breakin’ a bronco, an’ that Eudory always corallin’, deceivin’, and jiltin’ one outfit of men after another.
'I am dreadful sorry, says I, 'to see you, Banks, lookin' so peecked; why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs; what on airth ails you? 'I'm dyin', says he, 'of a broken heart. 'What, says I, 'have the gals been jiltin' you? 'No, no, says he, 'I bean't such a fool as that neither. 'Well, says I, 'have you made a bad speculation? 'No, says he, shakin' his head, 'I hope I have too much clear grit in me to take on so bad for that. 'What under the sun, is it, then? said I. 'Why, says he, 'I made a bet the fore part of summer with Leftenant Oby Knowles, that I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate.
I am dreadful sorry, says I, to see you, Banks, lookin so peecked; why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs; what on airth ails you? I am dyin, says he, OF A BROKEN HEART. What, says I, have the galls been jiltin you? No, no, says he, I beant such a fool as that neither. Well, says I, have you made a bad speculation?
"And the crew, what did they say?" "They was a crew of a few words," sighed Hawkins. "Werry few words, an' not a civil word in the lot mostly adjectives of a profane kind. When I told 'em what had happened, they got mad at Fortune for a- jiltin' of 'em, an' well, I came here. I was 'sas'inated that werry night!" "They killed you?" cried Morgan. "A dozen times," nodded Hawkins.
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