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But we all lives to larn," added the tinker, sententiously. "Who gave you them leggins? Can't you speak, lad?" "Nick Stirn." "Nick Stirn! Ay, I'd ha' ta'en my davy on that: and cos vy?"
They came running over and found him standing like the hunter in an amateur photograph, holding his bow in one hand and the big Woodchuck by the tail in the other. "Now, I guess you fellers will come to me to larn you how to kill Woodchucks. Ain't he an old socker? I bet he weighs fifty pounds yes, near sixty." "Good boy! Bully boy! Hooray for the Third War Chief!
That's pretty much a case of following the pattern of your own coat, with the front in one piece, but cut down just far enough for your head to go through, instead of all the way, and fixed with tie-strings at the throat and fringes at the seams and at the bottom; it hain't easy to do. But any one kin larn to make moccasins. There is two styles of them that is, two main styles.
Ye know the preacher says: 'What shall hit profit a man ef he gain the whole world an' lose his life? Let me off'n these lessons, Honey? I'm too old; ye can't larn me new tricks now. Let me off fer good an' all, won't ye?" "No," was the firm answer. "It means too much. I won't give up and let the man I love sign his name forever with a cross mark." "I ain't goin' ter sign no more papers nohow!"
"I says to him, 'Hullo, Jim, what you doing here? and he said, 'Well, Tom, I come here to larn you how to fight. 'And you a Quaker's son, says I. 'Yup, he says, 'and thee knows that my old folks is none too pleased; but somehow I couldn't stay home comfortable with all the other boys fighting to free the blacks, so here I be.
"Far year, sar; larn carpenter trade go to England pay off get plenty money come out here in marchant vessel England very fine place, too much cold," said the negro, shuddering the bare recollection. "Now tell me," said Kingston, "of course you recollect being in your own country? Which do you like best that or this?" "Ashantee very good country Barbadoes very good country.
But this was a knotty undertaking, and when he finished, quite unassisted by Bob, Dale's face held a troubled look. "If a fine man like yeou, Cunnel," he began, causing the old gentleman to stiffen in his saddle with righteous pride, "don't know no moh'n that 'bout the English language, how, in Gawd's name, am I a-goin' ter larn?" "Upon my word, sir!
Paul Pringle used to boast among his friends that Billy True Blue was already a perfect seaman, and that he would sooner trust him at the helm on a squally night, or on the lookout forward on a dark one, than he would most men twice his age; but he took care never to say this in True Blue's own hearing, lest, as he observed, "the lad should larn to think too much of hisself."
Sim had a man to work on our cranberry bog, and he found out that he was first-rate in 'rithmetic, this man was, and so Sim, says he, I'll give ye the same ye git on the bog, says he, 'to stay up to the house and larn my boys 'rithmetic, says he; and the man, he tried it, and in the course of a day or two, he come around to Sim, and wanted to know if he couldn't go back to clarin' bog again."
"I'll jist be tryin' to larn a little better ways of talkin' mysilf, so I will, not as I think there's much chance for me, and, as there's no good of waitin' till you get as old as Pat, Jim, you'll be takin' heed to Andy's talkin'. Andy's the talker as would have plazed his father, for his father loiked everything done roight, so he did."
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