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How are we ridin?" The Gunner looked over the side. "Why, middlin deep, sir." "Then cut the boats away, and the anchors. Stave in the water-casks. Heave all spare shot and tackle overboard we need nowt but the boards we stand on and the guns we fight; and make what sail you can on her.... I shall bear away for the shore. Don't mean bein took at my time o life."
He wus a good business man, and one that meant to do middlin' near right, but wus close for a bargain, and sot, awful sot. And though he wus dretful polite, and made a stiddy practice right along of callin' wimmen "angels," still he would not brook a woman's interference.
'Twadn't girls' affairs. 'Reckon she knowed? Jabez went on. 'She? She must have guessed it middlin' close when she saw her money come back. But she never mentioned it in writing so far's I know. She were more worritted that night on account of two-three her chickens bein' drowned, for the flood had skewed their old hen-house round on her postes.
The gentlemen in the hop sacks continued to attend her; the one leading the donkey, the other walking behind and cheering the animal on with periodical gee-ho's. "I suppose as it's a long way, sir?" asked Mrs. Peckaby, breaking the silence, and addressing the conductor. "Middlin'," replied he. "And how do we get over the sea, please, sir?" asked she again.
Falconer's table. Shargar soon learned to behave with tolerable propriety; was obedient, as far as eye-service went; looked as queer as ever; did what he pleased, which was nowise very wicked, the moment he was out of the old lady's sight; was well fed and well cared for; and when he was asked how he was, gave the invariable answer: 'Middlin'. He was not very happy.
"Wal', there's a middlin' sight o' bad things in 'em," said the Captain, "that I must say; but as long as folks is folks, why, they will be folksy; but there's never any makin' women folk understand about them ar things." "I am sorry they are bad," said Mara; "I want to see them."
They were at their evening meal of sweet broth when Matthew's knock came to the door, followed, without much interval, by his somewhat gaunt figure on the threshold. "Come your ways in," said Mrs. Ray. "And how fend you, Mattha?" "For mysel', I's gayly. Are ye middlin' weel?" the old man said. "I'm a lang way better, but I'm going yon way too. It's far away the bainer way for me now." And Mrs.
I am fairly tuckered out." And I sez in faint axents, "I would fain reach a land where parasols and puckers are not and dogs and diamonds are no more." I wuz middlin' incoherent from my agitation. But I meant well. I wuz truly in hopes I would reach some quiet place where Josiah and me could set down alone.
When they were in the yard we had a good look at his own horse a good look and if I'd been a fellow that painted pictures, and that kind of thing, I could draw a middlin' good likeness of him now. By George! how fond I am of a good horse a real well-bred clinker.
"Confound these granite rocks!" he exclaimed, one day, as he was ploughing, after he had broken his trace chains for a second time; "they hev another kind er rocks in Calliforny. Jehosaphat! If I was only thar. There a fellur hez to dig; but he gets pretty good wages five thousand dollars a month is middlin', not to say fair."
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