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Updated: June 19, 2025
Rest were disposed to concede that it was just possible they might have what they called 'a spell of fair weather. Saturday was the general 'cleaning-up day' in the village the day when pails of water were set out in unexpected places for the unwary to trip over; when the old flagstones poured with soapsuds that trickled over the toes of too- hasty passers-by; when cottage windows were violently squirted at with the aid of garden-syringes and hose, and when Adam Frost, the sexton, was always to be found meditating, and even surreptitiously drinking beer, in a quiet corner of the churchyard, because he was afraid to go home, owing to the persistent housewifely energy of his better half, who 'washed down' everything, 'cleaned out' everything, and had, as she forcibly expressed it, 'the Sunday meals on her mind. It was a day, too, when Bainton, released from his gardening duties at the rectory at noon, took a thoughtful stroll by himself, aware that his 'Missis' was scrubbing the kitchen, and 'wouldn't have him muckin' about, and when John Walden, having finished his notes for the Sunday's sermon, felt a sense of ease and relief, and considered himself at liberty to study purely Pagan literature, such as The Cratylus of Plato.
Mary's Lunnon father, which they'd put clean out o' their minds, arrived down from Lunnon with the law on his side, sayin' he'd take his daughter back to Lunnon, after all. I was working for Mus' Dockett at Pounds Farm that summer, but I was obligin' Jim that evenin' muckin' out his pig-pen. I seed a stranger come traipsin' over the bridge agin' Wickenden's door-stones.
A lot of us went on the fore an' aft bridge an' watched 'em like 'Listen to the Band in the Park. All these evolutions, I may as well tell you, are highly unusual in the Navy. After ten minutes o' muckin' about, Glass 'ere pity 'e's so drunk! says that 'e'd had enough exercise for 'is simple needs an' he wants to go 'ome. Mr.
If you're going to marry me, marry me, Bill, It's no use muckin' about! The man at the wheel, uniformed in what had once been a Tam-o'-shanter, a pair of very worn R.M.L.I. trousers rolled up to the knee, and a black sweater, was smoking a cigarette.
He looked at the Chief, at Bosambo, at the river all aglow in the early morning sunlight, at the Zaire, with her sinister guns a-glitter, and then back at the Chief. He was not well versed in the dialect of the Akasava, and Bosambo must be his interpreter. "Very serious offence, old friend," said Bones, solemnly; "awfully serious muckin' about with spears and all that sort of thing.
"But if those cruisers are crocks, why does the Admiral let 'em out of Weymouth at all?" I asked. "The tax-payer," said Mr. Moorshed. "An' newspapers," added Mr. Pyecroft. "In Torbay they'll look as they was muckin' about for strategical purposes hanamerin' like blazes in the engine room all the weary day, an' the skipper droppin' questions down the engine-room hatch every two or three minutes.
You surely ain't been at this here muckin' wheel the whole blessed night, have ye, sir?" "Certainly I have," said I, "seeing that the brig had to be looked after, and neither of you men saw fit to relieve me!" "Well," admitted the fellow, "that's a howlin' shime, and no mistike. The fact is that we was all dead tired with sweatin' at them infernal pumps.
"Three days C.B. your muckin' about'll cost you." And before Wankin could reply the sergeant was reporting the matter to the captain. Wankin is eternally in trouble, although his agility in dodging pickets and his skill in making a week's C.B. a veritable holiday are the talk of the regiment.
Sometimes he'll work for one, and sometimes for the other; and sometimes he won't for eether. One thing certain, he won't stir for no one else only her, o' course. No muckin' about with her. It's just click! and away." "Pity she can't ride," said Silver. "If she could ride I'd back him till all was blue," replied the old man.
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