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I used to be single once. Once I was single; see?" "I see," said Brown, repressing a smile. Seth was not aware that there was anything humorous in his statement. "Yes," he said, "I was single and and happy, by jiminy! I was skipper of a mack'rel schooner down Cape Ann way, never mind where, and Seth Atkins is only part of my name; never mind that, neither.
"Why, there's a couple o' hundred fathom o' mack'rel net lying t'other side there gnawed full of holes." "What o' that?" said the other. "Why, one such night as this, lad, is worth two months o' mack'rel fishing." "Well, yes, so it be. Ah! that's better. We shall see now what we're about. I say, it was rather a near one with the cutter to-night. I thought she'd ha' been down upon us."
"I'll ask grandma for some," promised Ted, and he soon came back with his hands full of the round, brown molasses cookies. "Hello, Curlytops, what can I do for you. to-day?" asked the storekeeper a little later, when the three children had driven up to his front door. "Do you want a barrel of sugar put in your wagon or a keg of salt mack'rel? I have both." "We want baking soda," answered Jan.
It was just about quarter past one and we was laughing our heads off at one of Brown's jokes, when out under the back window there was a jingle and a thump and a kind of groaning and wiggling noise. "What on earth is that?" says Dillaway. "I shouldn't be surprised," says Peter, cool as a mack'rel on ice, "if that was his royal highness, the count."
I had considerable fun with Cap'n Jonadab over his not landing a rich husband for the Seabury girl. Looked like the millionaire crop was going to be a failure that summer. "Aw, belay!" says he, short as baker's pie crust. "The season ain't over yet. You better take a bath in the salt mack'rel kag; you're too fresh to keep this hot weather."
"We shall be there to-morrow, and then we can catch heaps of cod-fish, and soles, and mack'rel, and find oysters. It'll be all right then." This was encouraging, but somehow Dexter did not feel so much confidence in his companion as of old. But Bob's rest, and the disappearance of danger had brought him back to his former state, and he was constantly making references to the departed enemy.
We see how things was going, and we didn't like it. Stumpton was having too good a time to notice, going after "Labrador mack'rel" and so on, and Peter T. was too busy steering the cruises to pay any attention.
But do you think it disturbed your old friend, Peter Brown? No, sir! He never winked an eye. "By Jove!" he sings out, staring at that dogfish as if 'twas a gold dollar. "By Jove!" says he, "that's the finest specimen of a Labrador mack'rel ever I see. Bait up, Stump, and go at 'em again."
"The next time I peeked was the last, for that night they'd had some words, an' they both set up straight as a mack'rel, an' wouldn't speak to one another. That hurt me most of anything. I never've got over the feelin' that I was James's mother, an' that night I felt sort o' bruised all through, as if some stranger'd been hurtin' him. So I never went spyin' on 'em no more.
"So we ''urried, wonderin' what on earth was the matter. And when we got to the Robinson rooms, there was Grace, lookin' awful pale, and the old man himself ragin' up and down like a horse mack'rel in a fish weir. "Soon as papa sees us, he jumped up in the air, so's to speak, and when he lit 'twas right on our necks. His daughter, who seemed to be the sanest one in the lot, run and shut the door.
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