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"And now tell me how you managed to get the pinnace stove?" "Well, sir, the fact is, it were just the doin' of that miserable creatur, Mister Dale. Our water were gettin' low; and yesterday Mr Bowles ups and puts us on 'lowance a pint a day for each man.
"We aren't got enough to eat in the fo'c's'le, sir, an' we wants our proper 'lowance o' meat, instead of a lot of rotten kickshaw marmalade!" "Wh-a-at what the dickens d'ye mean?" roared out "Old Jock," touched on his tenderest point, the word "marmalade" to him having the same effect as a red rag on a bull.
Aun' Sheba had heard and recognized his voice, and she went through the throng like a puffing tug through driftwood. "Mister Buggone," she said, with the sternness of fate, "ef yer doan stop yer noise you'se 'lowance stop heah and now. Yer'll hab ter wuck shuah or starbe, fer if yer doan come wid me now yer neber come agin." Uncle Sheba went away with her, meek as a lamb.
Peggotty, 'and I know'd his merits, so I unnerstan' her; but 'tan't entirely so, you see, with others nat'rally can't be! My aunt and I both acquiesced. 'Wheerby, said Mr. Peggotty, 'my sister might I doen't say she would, but might find Missis Gummidge give her a leetle trouble now-and-again. Peggotty, 'I means to make her a 'lowance afore I go, as'll leave her pretty comfort'ble.
"Yer second 'lowance," repeated the joker Harris. "All the noo hands can git it if they axes fur it." "Now, yer bean't a-joking?" "No," declared Harris unblushingly, winking to the others around. "Joking why should I, man?" The greenhorn grew quite excited at the prospect of another tot of grog after his pipe.
"Tom," he said, "I predicted a while ago that the time wuz soon comin' when you'd talk us to death. You used five words then, when you know your 'lowance is only one an hour." Tom Ross flushed under his tan. He hated, above all things, to be garrulous. "Sorry," he muttered, and continued his work with renewed energy and speed.
But I told him I was upo' the travel three parts o' the Sundays, an' then I'm so used to bein' on my legs, I can't sit so long on end, 'an' lors, sir, says I, 'a packman can do wi' a small 'lowance o' church; it tastes strong, says I; 'there's no call to lay it on thick. Eh, Miss, how good the little un is wi' you!
You think, perhaps, I have not take notice; but I have; and if you had not gone to work to-day, I should have said to you, `Look here, my good man, suppose you not work you not eat; and I should have stopped your 'lowance. But you are going to work; so now that is all right."
'But my parting words under this roof is, I shall go into the house and die, if I am not took. I can dig, Dan'l. I can work. I can live hard. I can be loving and patient now more than you think, Dan'l, if you'll on'y try me. I wouldn't touch the 'lowance, not if I was dying of want, Dan'l Peggotty; but I'll go with you and Em'ly, if you'll on'y let me, to the world's end!
"Hullo!" exclaimed the ship's steward, who acts as master of the ceremonies in this daily allowance of drink to the ship's company, assisted by one of the corporals, and sometimes even by the master-at- arms himself, the purveyor of the grog recognising him as having previously received his quota. "What do you want here? You've had your 'lowance already!"
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