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The boys'll just have to boat off down the coast and say ye was lost with the schooner. That's easy enough." "You're a murderin' scoundrel," said Locke, quietly. "I'm out for the coin," said Jarrow. "Work with me, and it'll be all right." "Sit down, Mr. Trask," said Locke. "We might as well go about this in a business way." "Now ye're talkin'," said Jarrow. "What's your proposition?" asked Locke.
I waited up in my tree until the murderin' thieves had got clear away, and then I starts to climb down, intendin' to foller 'em and find out what they meant to do with the white men as they'd took away alive with 'em, when, as my feet touched the solid ground once more, dash my wig if these here four mates of mine didn't drop out of some other trees close at hand.
"Thieves, missus a murderin' 'ighwayman Galloping Jerry 'isself a bloody rogue " "'E looks it!" nodded the landlady. "Bleedin' all over my clean kitchen, 'e be. Take 'im out t' barn " "Not us, ma'm, not us 'e's nigh give us the slip once a'ready, dang 'im!" Saying which, the speaker kicked the poor wretch so that he would have fallen but for the wall, whereupon the man Vokes laughed and nodded.
You can't do it! Now go on, sir, this was to old Martin. 'Bring the murderin' wagabond upon his knees! If he wants noise, he shall have enough of it; for as sure as he's a shiverin' from head to foot I'll raise a uproar at this winder that shall bring half London in. Go on, sir! Let him try me once, and see whether I'm a man of my word or not.
I'll teach you manners, you baste!" "Give me the boy!" gasped the padrone. "You can't have him, thin!" said Pat "You want to bate him, you murderin' ould villain!" "I'll have you arrested," said the padrone, furiously, writhing vainly to get himself free. He was almost beside himself that Phil should be the witness of his humiliation. "Will you, thin?" demanded Pat.
Egerton round the neck in a strangling grasp, and when she discovered whom she was embracing, she shrieked in horrified dismay, "Murderin' blazes! If it ain't the preacher!" The crowd went off into roars of laughter, none joining so heartily as the minister himself, who was compelled to lean against the wall for support, and wipe the tears from his eyes. "Shades of Mr.
After I'd announced my intention of putting them outdoors to sleep, when they were four weeks old, she lugubriously acknowledged that there were more ways than one of murderin' infant children. Her ideal along this line, I've discovered, is slow asphyxiation in a sort of Dutch-oven made of an eider-down comforter, with as much air as possible shut off from their uncomfortable little bodies.
Why, you crack-brained, murderin' lunatic, I wouldn't cruise in that hell wagon of yours again for the skipper's wages on a Cunarder. No, nor the mate's hove in! "And that shover he put his head back and laughed and laughed and laughed." "I don't wonder he laughed," observed Wingate, who seemed to enjoy irritating his friend. "You must have been good as a circus."
D'ye think yer the only man 'as ever stove in a mate's head an' him a murderin' mandriver? Keep them tales for the Old Man; he believes 'em seemingly; but don't you come them on me." Conroy was moaning. "I never touched him; I never touched him!" "Never touched him! Here, take the pin; it's yours!" He shrank from it. "No, no!" Slade pitched it to his bunk, where it lay on the blanket.
"I'll never let you do it!" she declared, her voice rising beyond her control. "I'll walk the roads and beg my bread first! I'll hoe in the fields, I'll wash folks' clothes for 'em like a nigger slave, I'll lay down my life, Joe, before I let you go into that murderin' man's hands!" He took the paper from her hands gently.
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