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It's a pity he had to be buried at the bottom of the sea, where you can't put up a monniment to him, as I'm sure you would like to do. So this is all I have to say, and I shall not trouble you again." Here was no puzzle for Gammon, who had approved Greenacre's scheme for finally getting rid of Mr. Clover.
"Gol darn it all!" said Captain Pharo, making an unsuccessful attempt to light his pipe, and kicking out his left leg testily. "'Afore ye gits to lookin' any meachiner, says she. "'When I dies, says I, 'th' inscription on my monniment won't be by no drowndin', says I; 'it'll be jest plain, "Pestered ter death," says I.
"I might 'a' done jest the same thing," reflected Captain Leezur aloud, with a pensiveness that still had nothing of unavailing regret in it, "ef I'd been a mind tew; and had a monniment put up over me like one o' these here No. 10 Mornin' Glory coal stoves." I too mused, deeply, sadly. O placid, unconscious sarcasm! innocent as flowers: wise end, truly, of all earthly ambition!
'Now, says he, 'what d'ye think iv a gazabo that don't want a monniment put over some wan? Where is this here pole? I think I'll go out an' take a look at it. Where 'd ye say th' la-ad come fr'm? Donaldson? I was there. There was a man in our mess a Wicklow man be th' name iv Dwyer that had th' best come-all-ye I iver heerd. It wint like this, an' he give it to me."
"Say Mistress Blair, ye ill-mennered whaup atyar," says I in his lug; an' he gleyed roond at me, an' says, wi' anither o' his vegabon'-like winks, "Ay; that's Wattie Scott's monniment, Bawbie. A great man, Wattie! It was him 'at wret Bailie Nickil Jarvie an' the Reed Gauntlet an' so on. He bade a fortnicht wi' Luckie Walker at Auchmithie.
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