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It's worse for me to see than for you to hear of him. Wasn't I always a friend of his, and said he was worthy to be a gentleman, many a time? He's got the manners of a gentleman now; offs with his hat, if there's a lady present, and such a neat way of speaking. But there, acting's the thing, and his behaviour's beastly bad! You can't call it no other. There's two Mr.

Down he goes, offs with his stocking, and there was thirty golden guineas. 'Now, says the Captain, 'you've tried it on with me, but I scorns the advantage. Ten I said, he says, 'and ten I take. So, dash my buttons, I call that man a man!" cried Sam in cordial admiration. "Well, and then?" says Mr. Archer.

"Yes, yes plenty of put offs," said the soldier. "'But, sir, answered I to him," resumed Agricola, "'it is now, this very night, that you ought to act, for if these young girls should not be present to-morrow morning in the Rue Saint Francois, their interests may suffer incalculable damage.

We had great times at these "stirrin' offs" which usually took place at night. The neighbors would usually come and bring their slaves. We played Sheep-meat and other games. Sheep-meat was a game played with a yarn ball and when one of the players was hit by the ball that counted him out. One song we would always sing was "Who ting-a-long? Who ting-a-long? Who's been here since I've been gone?

The missus has a pair o' shoes, and she offs with 'em when my daughter goes to market, and my boy the youngest 's got no shoes; but we do very well, and would do better, only the cheap pie shop takes off a lot o' trade. I wouldn't eat them pies.

'Given my chaps a taste o the stuff after all their trouble. And he says it so ot and uffy like that the Genelman, leanin against the wall, laughs. "The orse-captain heard him, and pokes in. "'Who's that? he says. "Then when he saw the Genelman agin the wall, he offs his helmet he knoo what was what did the orse-captain, I will say that. "'Can we do anything for you, sir? says he, hushed like.

"He kissed her!" she cried in a state of tremendous excitement. "Well, she’s his aunt, ain’t she?" Joshua demanded, picking up the can and privately wishing Lucinda in Halifax. "I don’t mean her;—I mean Janice." "I don’t see anythin’ surprisin’ in that," said Joshua,—"not if he got a good chance." "What do you think of such goin’s on?" "I think they’ll lead to goin’s offs."

"Yes, yes plenty of put offs," said the soldier. "'But, sir, answered I to him," resumed Agricola, "'it is now, this very night, that you ought to act, for if these young girls should not be present to-morrow morning in the Rue Saint Francois, their interests may suffer incalculable damage.

Great, indeed, was the hubbub. Gradually, however, as the evening advanced Pacey and Guano out-talked the rest, and at length Pacey got the noise pretty well to himself. When anything definite could be extracted from the mass of confusion, he was expatiating on steeple-chasing, hurdle-racing, weights for age, ons and offs clever a sort of mixture of hunting, racing, and 'Alken.

They then made for a large field at the back of the house, with leaping-bars, hurdles, 'on and offs, 'ins and outs, all sorts of fancy leaps scattered about. Having got him fairly in, and the lad having got himself fairly settled in the saddle he gave the horse a touch with the spur as Leather let go his head, and after a desperate plunge or two started off at a gallop.