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She's a powerful strong woman Miss Tranter, an' many's the larker what's felt 'er 'and on 'is collar a-chuckin' 'im out o' the 'Trusty Man' neck an' crop for sayin' somethin' what aint ezackly agreeable to 'er feelin's. She don't stand no nonsense, an' though she's lib'ral with 'er pennorths an' pints she don't wait till a man's full boozed 'fore lockin' up the tap-room.
Mebbee he thought he'd like to get a holt a suthin' himself, even if it was only some of that yar chickin and port wine!" I have a family boarding here, with a sick daughter. You don't think " I seed you and her pre-ambulating down the hill, lockin' arms. A good deal o' style, Jeff fancy! expensive! How does Aunt Sally take it?" A slight shaking of the floor and window a dead silence. Silence.
"We've been dressin' and feedin' and standin' the loss through breakin' and stealin' these fellers have imposed on this town for a week and more now, and I'm one that don't think much of lockin' them up in jail to lay there and eat off of the county and maybe be turned loose after a while.
I knew very well what his "warning" meant, lockin the stable-door but stealin the hoss fust. Next day, his strattygam for becoming acquainted with Mr. Dawkins we exicuted; and very pritty it was. Besides potry and the flute, Mr. Dawkins, I must tell you, had some other parshallities wiz., he was very fond of good eatin and drinkin.
"You see, the doctor's wife she's summat timmersome, an' looks arter the lockin' up every night herself wery partikler. Then she 'as all the keys up into her own bedroom o' nights so, you see, in consikence of her uncommon care, she keeps all the locks clear for you and me to work upon!"
"No, the Colonel an' Peets don't go lockin' horns in these differences. Both is a mighty sight too well brought up for that; moreover, they don't allow to set the camp no sech examples. They entertains too high a regyard for each other to take to pawin' about pugnacious, verbal or otherwise. "The Colonel's information is as wide flung as a buzzard's wing.
"I could say no more than 'Obey orders, if ye break owners, but on the Kite we believed McRimmon was mad; an' McIntyre of the Lammergeyer was for lockin' him up by some patent legal process he'd found in a book o' maritime law. An' a' that week South American freights rose an' rose. It was sinfu'!
The best way to punish a thief, accordin' to my notion, is to keep him everlastingly on the jump, scared to death to show his face anywheres and always hatin' to go to sleep for fear he'll wake up and find somebody pointin' a pistol at him and sayin, 'Well, I got you at last, dang ye. Besides, lockin' Mart up isn't going to bring back Mrs. Gwyn's sheep, is it?"
"Here I be!" came a voice from below. "I'm jest lockin' the door tight." "Well, hurry up hurry! Come up here an' lay down. I'm goin' to start." In a few moments all was in readiness. Droop pulled the lever, and with a roar and a mighty bound the Panchronicon, revived by its long period of waiting, sped upward into the night.
"Pick him up," said the skipper, sullenly. "There bes grub enough an' to spare to feed him an' a hundred like him. Heave him up atween ye, men, an' we'll be lockin' of him up in a safe place. Fetch along the lantern, Cormy, lad." John Darling opened his eyes at this moment, stared dizzily around him and struggled up to one elbow. "Flora!" he cried. "Flora, where are you?"
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