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Your poor mother turned pale she know'd the sound too well. `That's Edwin, she says, jumpin' up an runnin' to open the door, forgetting all about the will, so I quietly folded it up an' shoved it in my pocket.
"The big, hulkin' brute," blubbered Lightfoot, sitting up and aggrievedly feeling of his front teeth, "jumpin' on a little feller like me an' he never give me no warnin', neither. You jest wait, I'll " "Aw, shut up!" growled Old Man Reavis, whose soul had long been harrowed by Lightfoot's festive ways. "He give you plenty of warnin', if you'd only listen.
"'And 'bout time, too, I guess, says 'Bije. 'I cal'late the skipper's right. This IS Horsefoot and we're right between the shoals. Yes, sir, and I hear breakers. Lively there! "They hove over the mudhook and dropped the sails. Nat shook his head. "'Breakers or not, says he, 'I tell you I've smelt home for the last half hour. Now, by the jumpin' Moses, I can TASTE it!
First of all, the skipper who looked as strong and healthy a man as you'd meet with in a day's march was found dead in his bed, on the morning of the fifth day out; and, next, the chief mate who of course took command, and was supposed to be a total abstainer was found missin', as you may say, when the steward went to call him, one morning he'd only been in command four days, poor chap; and the mate that's our present skipper, Cap'n Williams gave it out that he must have committed suicide, while in liquor, by jumpin' out of the stern window which was found to be wide-open, on the mornin' when poor Mr Mowbray was reported missing."
"For Parker, instead of comin' back, had turned and was leggin' it for the launch as fast as he could, and that was some. "'Stop! roars the Pinkerton man, jumpin' down the steps. 'Stop, or "'Hold him, Jim! screeched Parker, over his shoulder.
I tould him to put her to again an' fire a blank into the blow-pit to show how the dirt hung on the groovin'. He did that, but he did not put in the pin av the fallin'-block, an' av coorse whin he fired he was strook by the block jumpin' clear. Well for him 'twas but a blank a full charge wud ha' cut his oi out," "I looked a thrifle wiser than a boiled sheep's head. 'How's that, Sargint? sez I.
"Next time you'll take it easier," Smoke assured the victim, reaching for the nose of the man in the adjoining bunk. "I'd sooner take castor oil," was Shorty's private confidence, ere he downed his own portion. "Great jumpin' Methuselem!" was his entirely public proclamation the moment after he had swallowed the bitter dose. "It's a pint long, but hogshead strong."
The Deacon walked straight to the nearest tent, lifted the flap and inquired: "Does anybody here know where there is a boy named Si Klegg, of Co. Q, 200th Injianny Volunteers?" "Pap, is that you?" said a weak voice in the far corner. "Great, jumpin' Jehosephat, the Deacon!" ejaculated a tall skeleton of a man, who was holding a cup of coffee to Si's lips.
"It was a good action, a grand jumpin' form, and rare pace the bay showed on a short try-out that afternoon, so much so I overheard Lory tellin' himself, when he was after dismounting just outside me box: 'Gad! but ain't old Jack easy money!
"I 'ain't heard my kid's side of the story yet, but I'm goin' to see her now, so you better get word to that jumpin' jack in a hurry. That is, if you want to save him." "He is discharged, of course, for we tolerate no rudeness on the part of our employees or our guests, for that matter; but I believe he is suffering some effects from the shock. I couldn't well ask him to go before "
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