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I don' say them two ain't goin' to take some gittin'; they're in the boss's own stable, an' he has ears like a gopher. He 'n' the young missus ride 'em ur they think they do." He handed her aboard the raft and took his place at the stern. "Lie down, Whiskers; yer legs is too teetery fer this craft. Yuh might take a day off 'n' larn that fool jinny o' Mira's to lie down when she's told to.
Here 'tis, Joan, see no, not that here! Say the seal is that of the Governor of Bristol, who stole it from me for a while: but the handwriting will be known for the King's: and no hand but yours must touch it till you stand before Sir Ralph Hopton. The King shall thank you, Joan; and God will bless you for't." "Hope so, I'm sure. But larn me what to say, lad: for I be main thick witted."
Her might have marched off to Penzance to larn 'bout the manner o' gwaine to Lunnon an' bin stopped in home-comin'; or her might have slept in Penzance to catch a early train away." "Iss, or her might a got in the water, poor lamb," said Thomasin, who never left the dark side of a position unconsidered. Mary's face showed that the same idea had struck her.
"What are you thinkin' about, Jim?" asked his mother after many a sidelong glance at him. "Cheer up!" "Ain't there no other first steps?" he asked gloomily. "Not for you, Jim. And it's lucky you are that you don't loike the dustin' and the dishwashin'." Jim was evidently mystified. "Because, do you see, Jim, iverybody has got to larn sooner or later to do things they don't loike to do.
An' hoo used to come to this house every Sunday neet, an' read th' Scripturs; an' th' place wur olez crammed th' stairs an o'. Up-groon fellows used to come an' larn fro her, just same as childer they did for sure great rough colliers, an' o' mak's. Hoo used to warn 'em again drinkin', an' get 'em to promise that they wouldn't taste for sich a time.
Live and larn they say, and it's thrue, too." "But, mother, you ain't wishing poor Anty wasn't here?" "Indeed, but I do; everything to give and nothin to get that's not the way I have managed to live. But it's not that altogether, neither.
What was wanted was two or three battalions of light troops, who would make friends with the country people and larn all that's doing opposite. If the Americans are sharp they'll give us lots of trouble this winter, and you'll find there won't be much sitting quiet for us at Bordentown.
"We sailors know 'em for rascals from stem to starn, but somehow every fresh one fleeces us jest as his mate did afore him. We don't larn nothin' by exper'ence; we're jest no better than a lot of babys with no brains. "'Good mornin', my man, sez the chap, as iley as you please. "'Mornin', sir, sez I. "'Lookin' for a job? sez he.
'An' what do they larn? says I. 'Rompin', she says, 'an' dancin', she says, 'an' indepindance iv speech, an' beauty songs, an' sweet thoughts, an' how to make home home- like, she says. 'Well, says I, 'I didn't take anny iv thim things at colledge, so ye needn't unblanket thim, I says. 'I won't put thim through anny exercise today, I says.
"It is bery onpleasant to hear sich pussonal inflections. But, probumbly, arter he keep company wid me a little longer, he larn better." How it got out, nobody could tell. Tom and the General both declared they had said nothing about it, and Basset was equally positive he had not opened his mouth.
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