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"You've yet to larn, sir, that we don't take as long to fix up a town hereaway as you do in the old country," remarked Hunky Ben, as old Jacob Crossley ambled up on the staid creature which we have already introduced as Wheelbarrow. Waving his hand with enthusiasm the old gentleman exclaimed, "Glorious!"
Now, what d'ye say to a trip or two in a collier brig, just to larn the ropes like, eh?" Life on board a collier is not, as a rule, a condition of unalloyed felicity; but Bob was happily, or unhappily, ignorant of this; the suggestion conveyed to his mind only the idea of change, and his face lighted joyfully up at his benefactor's proposition, to which he at once eagerly assented.
"Correct means to make right. Suppose I set you right whenever you go wrong?" "That's it!" cried Jim enthusiastically. "That's it! I can larn that way sure." "Learn, not larn, Jim." Jim looked at her. "'Tis learn and not larn I'll be sayin'," he declared. "Not I'll be sayin'," corrected Miss Slocum, "but I'll say."
"An' there ye ar-re. Two opinions." "I see on'y wan," said Mr. Hennessy. "What do ye raaly think?" "I think," said Mr. Dooley, "if people wanted to be divoorced I'd let thim, but I'd give th' parents into th' custody iv th' childher. They'd larn thim to behave." "Hogan has been in here this afthernoon, an' I've heerd more scandal talked thin I iver thought was in the wurrld."
"Faix, ya moost go owver to old Oireland to larn, me bhoy," he answered with a laugh. "Wait till ye kiss the blarney stone, an' thin ye'll know!" "I suppose it's what father calls the suaviter in modo," said I, laughing also, he put on such a droll look. "And I think, Mr Rooney, you possess the fortiter in re, too, from the way you can speak sometimes."
I guess if they won't look ahead for the future, they'll larn to look behind, and see if there's a bank near hand 'em. "A bear always goes down a tree starn foremost.
Is that what they larn you to say at school? What's a lady's name when you speak to her?" He had no one but himself to thank for the consequences. Dave, who, jointly with Dolly, was just then on the most intimate footing with the young lady, responded point-blank: "Well Gwen, then! She said so. Sister Gwen."
“Those are my acts I’ve been counting,” the girl replied a little gingerly. “Yo’ ax? I don’ see nuttin’ ’cep’ a piece o’ papah plum fill up wid holes. W’at you call ax?” “Acts acts. Don’t you know what acts are?” “How you want me know? I neva ben to no school whar you larn all dat.”
You was always mighty clever with children." "I'll do all I can for her," said Tom, "though I suppose that isn't much." The young woman she had left her own baby in the store with her husband patted the little pillow lightly into shape. "Ye'll larn a heap by watchin' her," she said. "Jest watch her close 'n' she'll teach you herself. What do you do about her milk?" anxiously.
"I kin sew now," said Amarilly, repeating this conversation to the family circle that night, "and I'd like to sing, fer of course I'll hev to when I'm on the stage, but I git enough waitin' on table to hum. I'd ruther larn to read better fust of all." "I ain't much of a scholar," observed the Boarder modestly, "but I can learn you readin', writin', and spellin' some, and figgerin' too.
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