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"Come, boys, set by and have some fodder!" said Mr. Middleton. The young gentlemen took their seats at the table and Mr. Middleton continued, "Now lay into ’t and help yourselves. I ain’t used to perlite strains, and if I should try you’d all larf at me—mebby you want to now. Tempest say’s I’m enough to make a dog larf." "Who is Tempest? One of your servants?" asked Stanton.
Den no one will say a word to yer, as de cap'n said. Den he pulled de doah to hisself. "Missy Roberta 'gan to wring her han's an' walk up an' down like a caged tiger, an' Missy S'wanee larf and cry togedder as she say, 'Cap'n Lane too bright fer us. 'No, cries Missy Roberta, 'somebody's 'trayed me, an' I could strike a knife inter dere heart fer doin' it.
Dey all said we hab a mighty quiet v'yage, but Lor' bress yer! it was all 'long ob Mas'r Graham. He wouldn't let no wabes run ter pitch his darlin' roun'. Missy Grace, she used ter sit an' larf an' larf at 'im bress her dear heart, how much good it do me to hear de honey larf like her ole dear self!
Take a parcel of sodjers, officers and all, and stretch 'em out in a row, and paint 'em, and then engrave 'em, and put it into one of our annuals, and see how folks would larf, and ask, 'What boardin'-school gall did that? Who pulled her up out of standin' corn, and sot her up on eend for an artist? they'd say. "There is nothin' here to take hold on.
"You may larf," said the small girl, severely; "but you won't larf when you lose it, an' all becos you won't poultice it with tea leaves." She collected the things together on a tea tray of enormous size, and holding it tightly pressed to her small waist, watched with anxious eyes as the heavy articles slowly tobogganed to the other end.
"What you larf for, what you larf for, you little rascals, you play trick, eh? you call Sambo, who taught you dat name?" and he seized the two boys and shook them furiously. "Oh! Sam, Sam, you will kill us with laughing," Tom got out at last. "Do leave go, man, or we shall choke," and as Sam, astonished, loosed his hold, the boys sat down and laughed till their sides ached.
Oh dear, dear convarted men, though they won't larf themselves, make others larf the worst kind, sometimes; don't they? "I do believe, on my soul, if religion was altogether left to the voluntary in this world, it would die a nateral death; not that men wouldn't support it, but because it would be supported under false pretences. Truth can't be long upheld by falsehood.
"Well, you must know, this was the way of it and it do make me larf yet when I think o' the face o' that spider-legged critter goin' at the rate of twenty miles an hour or thereabouts wi' that most awful-lookin' grizzly b'ar peltin' after him. Hist! Look there, Tolly. A chance for your popgun."
"Wall, the fack is," said the capting, risin hisself on the shutter, "I've bin a little prejoodiced agin that grosery for some. But I made it lively for the boys, deacon! Bet yer life!" He larfed a short, wild larf, and called for his jug. Sippin a few pints, he smiled gently upon the passengers, sed, "Bless you! Bless you!" and fell into a sweet sleep. Eventually we reached our jerny's end.
John McPherson, and my mother is Lady Jane McPherson, he replied, in a tone intended to annihilate me wholly. "But I stood my ground, and said: "'Oh, you are Neil McPherson, are you? and your father is an honorable, and your mother a lady? Well, I am Grey Jerrold, of Boston, and my father is an honorable, and my mother is a lady, too!" "'Now, reely, you make me larf, he cried.
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