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While escorting him to the lockup, the officer in charge remarked "Well, Billy, you lucky fella. You only get three months. I been think you in for a sixer." Billy "By golly, Jack, me bin think me be disqualified for life." Mickie is apt at repeating the sayings of others. Often his rendering of a commonplace becomes humorous by reason of a slight verbal twist.
Our blacks saw "friends" on the mainland beach, and lit two signal fires. Mickie said, "Me tell 'em that fella bring basket." Cross-examined, he had to admit that the two fires merely signified a general invitation to his mainland friends to come across. Then "That fella got 'em basket, me get 'em."
This is said to be the last occasion on which the placid Palm Islanders saw an enemy land upon their shores. Mickie did not remember the invasion, or if he did so, he was not anxious to demonstrate that his ancestors were not cast in the heroic mould.
She sat down and rolled about shouting and screeching, hardly able to tell Mickie the fun, and when he was let into it the pantomime was the more extravagant. The outburst continued throughout the day at intervals, Jinny apologising for her boisterousness with reiterations "Misser Johnssing say he been see 'em cousin belonga me light 'em pipe!"
What you want?" "No, Boss; I no want talk alonga you, Mickie humbug you. What for you humbug Boss, Mickie?" Jinny was bashful, for the subject was momentous, touched her pride, and had been depressing her gaiety for many weeks. Presently she came and with emphatic deliberation said "Boss No good Missis call out Jinny! Jinny! When want wash 'em plate.
"Me giv' 'em Mickie; Bo'sun alonga Cooktown. He want to come up this way now." The letter was a mere token of material expression of the fact that the sender was in the land of the living, and of his faith in the bearer, who was charged with all the personal messages and news.
Me got 'em letter. Brother belonga gin, belonga Mickie; him gib it!" "No; Mickie sit down alonga Palm Islands. Come back, bi'mby." "Where letter?" I asked. Mattie "Me got 'em," and drawing out a very soiled little parcel, he proudly exposed a piece of greyish wood, about the size and shape of a lead pencil, on which had been cut two continuous intersecting grooves.
The women tried to avoid each other without accenting it, exchanging light words only as occasion demanded, but they were not clever enough for Mrs. Gammidge and Mrs. Mickie, who went about saying that Mrs. Innes's treatment of Madeline Anderson was as ridiculous as it was inexplicable. 'Did you ever know her to be jealous of anybody before? demanded Mrs. Mickie, to which Mrs.
The couple have one girl Mickie prefers to use the word "daw-tah" and his child had been but lately received into the bosom of the family, after several years' exile among the whites. It is somewhat of a trouble that "Minnie" had almost forgotten her native tongue, and that her parents have to yabber to her in English. According to them it will be a year before Minnie regains lingual facility.
Now the chick emerges from the shell feathered, and this, but for the unfortunate accident of discovery, would have begun to scratch for its living in a day or so. Mickie flicked away the fragments of shell from the steaming dainty and laid it snugly on a leaf. "That's for Paddy" an Irish terrier, always of the party. It was an affecting act of renunciation.
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