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'Is't larning ye've got? she asked, with much greater interest than she had before evinced. 'Yes; I am a man who spends his life seeking for knowledge. 'Are ye wiser ner parson? 'Very much wiser, replied the man of science, with honest conviction.
He also got great tachers, men of great larning, from Dublin, acquainted with all subjects; and as his own abilities were bright, he soon became a very great scholar, entirely, and was able, in the long run, to outdo all his tutherers.
You sees, your honour, as I said afore, I was own sarvant to Colonel Dysart; he was a Lord's nephy, a very gay gentleman, and great hand with the ladies, not a man more in the world; so I had the opportunity of larning what's what among the best set; at his honour's expense, too, augh!
So loudly did she ask, and so resolutely did she wait for an answer, that he was forced into speech. 'I don't know, he said, with another oath, milder than the first. 'Well, sure enow, she said, still speaking loudly, ''ere's somethin' awful queer, ye says yer a man that's got larning more ner parson, an' ye sees somethin', an' can't tell what ye's seed.
She lifted a hand to each of the old man's shoulders, and he put his arms about her. "Do you believe in the care of Providence, Josiah, and in the guiding hand of God?" The Captain tightened his embrace, and one of the bony hands of the housekeeper slipped into the knotty fingers about her waist. "I'm larning to, Clemmie, but I'm going to need a heap of help.
I went to school when quite a boy, and never larnt to read, The master tried both head and tail at last it was agreed No larning he could force in me, so they sent me off to sea; My mother wept and wrung her hands, and cried most bitterly. So she did pump, As I did jump In the boat, and said, "Good bye;" But as for me, Who was sent to sea, To cry was all my eye.
Halifax pays her a good rent; and she sees 'un made comfortable. Not that he wants much, being out pretty much all day." "What is he busy about of nights?" "Larning," said Jem, with an awed look. "He's terrible wise. But for all that, sometimes he'll teach Charley and me a bit o' the Readamadeasy." Her says, that her do, Mr. Halifax "
But I didn't think much about it, till one day I seed old Dan'l Dennis sitting on a locker reading. Every now and then he'd shut the book, an' look up, closing 'is eyes, an' moving his lips like a hen drinking, an' then look down at the book again. "'Why, Dan, I ses, 'what's up? you ain't larning lessons at your time o' life? "'Yes, I am, ses Dan very soft.
So far you ain't showed any turn for larning, Jack, as I ever see'd, but if you get it you may raise yourself to be an overman or a viewer, though I doan't say a manager; that seems too far away altogether. If you stick to what you say you may do it, Jack.
"Well, I never heard the like afore," said Tom Barlow, as he and his messmate, Ned Trunnion, were talking over the affair of the previous day. "The skipper says as how there is no such thing as ghosts; and I suppose, seeing as how he has as much larning as a parson, he knows all about it. It don't come within my category, though." "What he says is all shipshape," replied Ned.
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