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"Now, look 'ere, I'll tell you wot we do; we'll lay our 'eads 'longside an' reason together. You've lost some dust. You say as 'ow I know, an' I say as 'ow I don't. Let's get a hobservation an' shape a course " "Vast heavin'!" Kent dashed in, maliciously imitating the other's enunciation.
She threw her apron over her head and swayed and sobbed. As Sandy tried to pass, she stopped him again, and after looking furtively around she fumbled in her pocket for something which she thrust into his hand. "Hit's de pistol!" she whispered. "I's skeered to give it to nobody else, 'ca'se I's skeered dey'd try me for a witness. He done drap it 'longside de kitchen door.
And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, And Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the "Prairie Belle." He weren't no saint, but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim, 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shake hands with him.
"Oh, we are good friends still, but nothing more. As he proved that he did not kill Mark, I've no reason to give him his walking-ticket. But," added Mrs. Vrain drily, "I guess you'll be married to Diana before I hitch up 'longside Ercole." "How do you know I shall marry Miss Vrain?" asked Lucian, flushing. "If you saw your face in a glass, you wouldn't ask, I guess.
Now, Jack, look alive; lash her longside aft." This done, the two sailors, one standing on the lugger's gunwale, one on the schooner's, handed Miss Fountain into the schooner, and gave her the cushions of the lugger to sit upon. They then went to work with a will, and bailed half a ton of water out. When she was dry David jumped back into his own boat.
"Stand by with a rope there," cried the captain of the vessel, cutting short the discussion, while the canoe ranged longside. "Ship ahoy!" shouted Thursday, in the true nautical style which he had learned from Adams. If the eyes of the men who looked over the side of the ship were wide open with surprise before, they seemed to blaze with amazement at the next remark by Thursday.
"Jerry," remarked Peggy, breaking the brief pause that had fallen between them, "did you ever hear of Audubon?" "What's that? Do you mean the language for everybody to learn, so that Japs and Dagoes and us folks can talk together, same as if we'd been raised 'longside each other?" "Oh, no! That's Volapük you're talking about, Jerry. Audubon was a man." "Oh!" Apparently Jerry had lost interest.
When Will Osten reached the coach-office, he found that all the inside places were taken. "You'll have to go aloft, sir," said the coachman, a stout and somewhat facetiously inclined individual, who, observing something of the sailor in Will's costume and gait, suited his language to his supposed character; "there's only one berth left vacant, on the fogs'l 'longside o' myself."
"You just oughter seen the Colonel when the old boat righted herself, and he had climbed up and stood 'longside the Major a-talkin' it over. "Pretty soon he came up to where I was a-gettin' the tackle ready to lower the stone in the hold, and he says: "'Well, you made your word good, Cap'n, but I want to tell you that nobody but an American could a-done it.
Historian, 2nd s. of James S. of Rubislaw, friend of Sir Walter Scott, was a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and Clerk of the Bills in the Court of Session. Historian and song-writer, s. of a schoolmaster at Birse, Aberdeenshire, was ed. at Marischal Coll. Brought up as a Presbyterian, he became an Episcopalian and ministered to a congregation at Longside, near Peterhead, for 65 years.
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