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I's bin wakin' a good while, larfin' fit to bu'st my sides. De purfesser's been a-goin' on like a mad renoceros for more'n an hour. He's arter suthin', which he can't ketch. Listen! You hear 'im goin' round an' round on his tip-toes. Dere goes anoder chair. I only hope he won't smash de lamp an' set de house a-fire." "Vell, vell; I've missed him zee tence time. Nevair mind.
When I get that far, they may stop their larfin' till next time, I guess. That's the turn of the fever that's the crisis that's my time to larf then. Every eye was instantly turned upon us. Even Tattersall suspended his "he is five years old a good hack and is to be sold," to give time for the general exclamation of surprise. "Who the devil is that? Is he mad? Where did he come from?
"Heaven?" hazarded the unfortunate cook. "No; skipper's bunk," said Lea. "Oh, can't I foller 'im?" said the cook, starting up. "I'll soon 'ave 'im out o' that." "Better leave 'im alone," said Henshaw. "He was that wild we couldn't do nothing with 'im, singing an' larfin' and crying all together I certainly thought he was p'isoned." "I'll swear I ain't touched him," said the cook.
"Don't laugh in church, you monster," said Corrie, with a frown. "I'se not larfin," retorted Poopy, with an injured look. He passed steadily up the center of the church, and sat down beside the Widow Stuart, whose face expressed anxiety and surprise the moment she observed who was seated there.
Very nat'rally our Gov'ment was deeply grieved at this defeat; and I said to my Bear, shortly after, as I was givin a exhibition in Ohio I said, "Brewin, are you not sorry the National arms has sustained a defeat?" What did the grizzly old cuss do, however, but commence darncin and larfin in the most joyous manner? I had a narrer escape from being imprisoned for disloyalty.
Well, says I, I know folks are plaguilly consarned about it, but what do you call "folks smashin their consarns?" Father he larfed out like any thing; I thought he never would stop and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter. Says she, Sam, I do believe you are a born fool, I vow. When father had done larfin, says he, I'll tell you, Sam, how it was.
"Oh, it's just a way we've got," returned Flaggan, resuming his gravity; "the English have a knack o' larfin', off and on, w'en they shouldn't ought to. Git along with your yarn." "Well, that wos the finish. I became a Breetish tar, an' fouted in all the battils of the navy. I 'spected to get promotion an' prize-money, but nivir git none, 'cause of circumstances as wos never 'splained to me.
He did not follow except with his eyes. "Larfin' at us, governor," jibed the diminutive cockney, putting a rail between himself and Lewis. "The 'uzzy! The minute I lays my heye on that marm, I says, 'Blime yer, you ain't no lydy'! I say, governor, give us a penny." Lewis turned away and took a few steps gropingly, head down, as though he walked in a trance.
He used to call him Dearborne, arter our General that behaved so ugly to Canada; and, says he one day, 'I guess you are no better than a hen, you everlastin' old chicken-hearted villain, and I'll make you a larfin' stock to all the poultry.
The trapper indulged in a quiet chuckle as he said this. "What are ye larfin' at?" asked Paul. "At the gold-seekers," replied Drake. "What was the matter wi' 'em," asked Tolly. "Not much, lad, only they was blind, and also ill of a strong appetite." "Ye was always fond o' speakin' in riddles," said Paul. "What d'ye mean, Mahoghany!"
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