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He was a foine man, av coorse, an' all surrounded by blue guards. He took me into a room himself an' begin askin' questions. "An' I lied, sor. Av coorse, 'twas lucky thot Oi had me Scotch larnin' an' caution to guide me; but whin Oi spoke, Oi wisely let th' Irishman do all th' talkin'. An' th' great Bar liked me.
"Yes, Harry is a good worker always ready to lend a hand." "That's good. Does he go to school?" "Yes, he's been going to school all the term." "Seems to me he's old enough to give up larnin' altogether. Don't he know how to read and write and cipher?" "Yes, he's about the best scholar in school." "Then, neighbor Walton, take my advice and don't send him any more.
"D'ye mean they lose a whole day a week?" Dale cried, working himself into a rage and giving the Colonel that same unpleasant, startled feeling of witnessing something human out of gear. "That all that time is jest plumb wasted, when I mought be larnin'? Hain't I come hyar fer her ter teach me? Hain't I got the right? Hain't hit her business?"
"Well, I'll expound it: phthisic, you see, manes whisht, boys: will yez hould yer tongues there phthisic, Larry, signifies that is, phthisic mind, it's not physic I'm expounding, but phthisic boys, will yez stop yer noise there signifies but, Larry, it's so deep a word in larnin' that I should draw it out on a slate for you.
There was no fire in the fireplace, for it was late in May; but Mr. Winners held his hands before it, from habit. "Wall, cap'in, I do hear as how yer goin' ter send yer boy Fernando to college." "I am." "Wall, that air a good notion. Now I ain't got no book larnin' myself; but I don't object to nobody else gittin' none.
What a thing is larnin', to be sewer. Yes, sir, he'd mend you. Nobody knows what he can dew, and nobody knows what he can't dew. If we puts to this night and I don't know why not, for we're sailin' if we gets a turbot I'll pay for it, and he'll have that theer fish if I swims for it." "You've always got a good way o' puttin' things, skipper, and I says I holds 'long o' you."
"Thar warn't no needcessity," said Pop complacently, taking a long twist of tobacco from his pocket. "Sal don't need no larnin'. She's pearter then most gals thet's got book sense. You show me ary one of these gals round here thet kin spin an' weave the cloth to mek ther own dresses, thet kin mold candles, an' mek soap, an' hoe terbaccy, an' handle a rifle good ez a man." "But, Mr.
He talks dago to Caleb and Caleb gives him back jest plain straight Crick talk. If he's larnin as much United States as Caleb is dago, he'll make circit rider preacher in a few years. Caleb talk dago to the men." Whereupon the boy stepped directly in front of Mr. Rogers and said; "Buona sera, Rogers avete tabacco meliore di questo?" To which Mr.
"An' nobody has a better right to know nor yourself, wherever larnin' and education's consarned," said the father. "Why, it's not long since I examined him myself; I say it sitting here, and I believe every one that hears me is present; and during the course of the examination I was really astonished.
"Well," says Mat, "and may be you would be as well off if you had picked up your larnin' in our own Thrinity; there's good picking in Thrinity, for gentlemen like you, that are sober, and harmless about the brains, in regard of not being overly bright." "You talk with contempt of a hedge-school," replied the other master.
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