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Islands, they're discovered and then you own them, that's the way it is. Findings is keepings with islands." "Is that so?" said old Trimmer, half-interested and examining what might be called the underpinning of the island with keen preoccupation. "Well, you'll just clear off'n this here property double quick. Pile in here and I'll set you ashore."
He grew dreamy with waiting his thoughts seemed to melt into the softness of the day, to be part of the still air and misty sunshine, just as the triple-barned church with its grotesque tower was part.... He could feel the great Marsh stretching round him, the lonely miles of Walland and Dunge and Romney, once the sea's bed, now lately inned for man and his small dwellings, his keepings and his cares, perhaps one day to return to the same deep from which it had come. People said that the bells of Broomhill church drowned in the great floods which had changed the Rother's mouth still rang under the sea. If the sea came to Brodnyx, would Brodnyx bells ring on? And Pedlinge? And Brenzett? And Fairfield? And all the little churches of Thomas
"You are thieves and cowards, and I wouldn't take your word. Besides, we are not afraid of your touching us. Why did you steal our things?" "Well we found them," grumbled one of the boys. "Findings is keepings, and how was we to know they was yours?" "You knew they were not yours, and you had no right to touch them." "You shouldn't leave things about if you don't want them took.
We our government wouldn't recognize the right of of any one to take that treasure out of the country. Ten per cent. would be the maximum, and that only in case of accurate information brought in time to us." "Aren't findings keepings? Isn't possession nine points of the law?" laughed Tess. "In certain cases, yes.
All the mendings, all the keepings in order, the dinners to be invented with a due regard for the butcher's bill, the tradespeople to be kept in good humour, the servant to be managed, and papa, who was more difficult than the servant, and more troublesome than the children! If Ursula sighed over the prospect, I don't think the severest of recording angels would put a very bad mark against her.
If the good old rule of findings is keepings applied to monarchs it certainly applied to Boy Scouts. So Pee-wee prepared to set sail and formally take possession of his discovery. He would sail around it as Columbus had sailed around the coast of Cuba. . . . Entering the troops' deserted old car he got the oars of the old flat bottom boat belonging to the troop.
And then I said that findings is keepings and that Skinny belonged to the Silver Foxes, and they would make a present of him to the Elks on account of Tom Slade. "Anyway," I said, "when Tom gets back he'll be old enough for assistant scoutmaster, so it's all right." Then Mr. Ellsworth said, "Very good," and that Councilman Bennett had something to say. This is what he said, because Mr.
His family and the Old Doctor's had intermarried, back along, quite in the old days; or so he had heard. . . . Nicky-Nan knew nothing of any law about treasure-trove. Wealth arrived to men as it befell or as they deserved; and, any way, "findings was keepings."
They ask nothing at any man's hands they take and they keep!" "Like the millionaires!" suggested Bill Bush, with a grin. "Right you are, Bill! like the millionaires! None take more than they do, and none keep their takings closer!" "And very miserable they must surely be sometimes, on both their takings and their keepings," said Helmsley. "No doubt of it!
If they are ever found you and your mother shall have them." "Of course," Rhoda added, "we would not want anything that was not strictly ours. No matter what the law might say about 'findings, keepings, my father is not that kind, I'd have you know. We haven't found the treasure. If we ever do, I promise you we'll write to your mother at once."
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