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Updated: June 17, 2025
That's for the treasure; and there'll be side-lockers round the stern-sheets, and a locker forward big enough to hold a man. The fellow don't guess their meanin', an' I don't let him guess. He thinks they're for air-compartments, to keep her buoyant; says she'll need more ballast than I've allowed her, and wants to know what sense there is in buildin' a boat so floatey.
"I know he is," answered the oldest of the two sons, a lad of nineteen; "where else should he be so much of nights and Sundays, but at their trainin's? and what was the meanin' of the calico bundle I saw under his arm a month ago, as I told you on at the time?" "If I find it out to be as you say, Harry, he shall tramp off of this farm. I'll have no Injins here!"
The vote of thanks was accordingly moved by the chairman, and supported by a very good speech. Mr Todd rose to reply: "Gentlemen," he said, "ye maunna think that I am sae blind as no to see what is yer true meanin, concealed though it be under this thick veil o' courtesy and delicate regard to my feelins.
"No, but you meant to you're always meanin' to, you are. Guv," continued the Old Un, "folks is allus a-givin' an' takin' in marriage in this 'ere world, such bein' their natur' they can't 'elp it! But never in this world nor no other was there ever sich a weddin' as yours.
"O' course," he began, " but there, I don't like to suggest it, sir." "Say on, my friend." "Well I was thinkin' that you, may be, bein' accustomed to hosses " "My father," put in Mr. Mortimer, "rode to hounds habitually. A beau ideal, if I may say so, of the Old English squire. It is in the blood." "I know it's a come-down," Sam owned. "And a shilling at most for overtime meanin' no offence " Mr.
"Well, no, p'r'aps not 'zactly dat, Sooz'n, but suffin wid de same meanin'. You know it i'n't possible for me to speak like dem. An' dey bof seemed to hab got deir go-to-meetin' langwidge on all stiff an' stuck up grammar, same zif dey was at school.
He spoke in a dretful sort of a mysterious way, but proud; and I says, "What do you think is the reason, Josiah Allen?" And he says, "It hain't always best to tell what you think. I hain't obleeged to," says he. And I says, "No. As the poet saith, nobody hain't obleeged to use common sense unless they have got it;" and I says, in a meanin' tone, "No, I can't obleege you to tell me."
With his head down, so that even the card-players could not see his lips move, he whispered to Harlan: "Don't let 'em see you know I'm talkin'! They're framin' up on you!" Harlan grinned, shielding his lips with a hand that he passed casually over them. "Meanin' Latimer an' his friends?" he said. "Yep. Latimer's jealous of you. Been jealous.
"Noo," said Tam in perplexity, "is 'L Q' meanin' that A' ocht to rin for ma life or is it 'continue the guid wairk'?" Arguing that his work was invisible from the earth and that a more urgent interpretation was to be put upon the message, he turned westward and dived; not, however, before he had seen over his shoulder a dozen enemy machines come flashing up from the clouds.
"Well, not zactly," he said, scratching his head, "dey was dicksionary words and werry fine, for she had great 'finement bout her; but dat was de meanin' ob 'em. "'Now, Sorrow, she said, 'tell me de trut, wasn't dat soup now made of water? "'Yes, Missus, it was, said I, 'I seed it wid my own eyes.
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