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Nehemiah's flush the darkness concealed; he moistened his thin lips, and then gave a little cackling laugh, as if he regarded this as pleasantry. But the demolition of the literary pretensions of his family once begun went bravely on. "Abner Sage larnt this hyar boy all he knows," another voice took up the testimony. "Ab 'lows ez his mother war quick at school, but his dad law!
And he used the dialect of the country in which he lived. "As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best thing in the hull airth. I knowed it larnt ye more about creeters an' yarbs an' stuns an' water than books could tell ye.
Some one lurked there, evidently cherishing all aloof a grief, an anger, a despair too poignant to share. "Dad warn't hyar whenst the dep'ty leveled," she said. "An' mighty glad we war kase somebody mought hev got hurt. But whenst Dad kem home an' larnt the news he jes' he jes' he jes' lept about like a painter." "He did!
But come, friends, the victuals be coolin', and the mouth loves a warm morsel." "I am certain," said the man, as they were partaking of the repast, "that I never tasted a piece of venison so finely flavored before." "I've cooked the meat for nigh on to sixty year," answered the trapper, "and have larnt not to spoil the sweetness of natur' by overdoin' it.
'There's three things to be afeared on, said Robson, authoritatively: 'there's t' ice, that's bad; there's dirty weather, that's worse; and there's whales theirselves, as is t' worst of all; leastways, they was i' my days; t' darned brutes may ha' larnt better manners sin'. When I were young, they could niver be got to let theirsels be harpooned wi'out flounderin' and makin' play wi' their tales and their fins, till t' say were all in a foam, and t' boats' crews was all o'er wi' spray, which i' them latitudes is a kind o' shower-bath not needed.
"Faix, I don't till you iverythin' I knows I larnt better nor that from the monkeys in Brazil, old ship!" "But what did you do with the Manilla hemp arter you unrove the hawser?" asked Jorrocks, his curiosity now roused by the matter-of-fact way in which the Irishman told his story relating it as if every word was "the true truth," according to the French idiom.
"I've seed the comin' and goin' of seventy year sence I've been on the arth," answered the trapper, stroking his head with the peculiar motion of the aged when speaking of their age reflectively; "and much have I seed of the passions of my kind, and many be the lessons that natur' has larnt me; and ef the convarse of an old man who has lived leetle in the clearin' would be pleasant to ye, yer comin' will be welcome.
He was about to break forth with a guffaw of great relish when Nehemiah spoke hastily, forestalling the laughter. "Naw; Abner Sage war thar fur a good while las' winter a-visitin' his sister, an' he kem an' gin me lessons an' set me copies thar at my house, an' I larnt a heap." Leander lifted his head suddenly.
He desarves credit for that trick. Guess I do; but let old Connecticut alone; us Slickville boys always find a way to dodge in or out embargo or no embargo, blockade or no blockade, we larnt that last war. "Here I am in the street agin; the air feels handsum. I have another invitation to-night, shall I go? Guess I will.
Still, I do not care for your entering the sarvice so young. It would be better that you were first apprentice and larnt your duty; and as soon as your time is out, you will be pressed, of course, and then you would sarve the King. I see no objection to all that." "But why do you want so particularly to go to sea, Jack?" observed Anderson.
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