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You are unfit to be a lubber, and would be log-booked for an or'nary by every gentleman on board ship. You, a full-jiggered sea-man! No, you are not even half-jiggered, sir; and I tell you so to your face." "Yes, and it is n't half that might be tould the likes of yees!" put in Biddy, as her mistress stopped to breathe.
"Rather or'nary; but I dessay he'll come all square after a day or two in dock," answered the Captain; "I left him shored up in bed with bolsters." "So Tommy's slipped his cable, I'm told?" said Rodgers interrogatively. "Ay, he's off, an' no mistake.
Them critters has a way of thinkin' hard an' quick or'nary." And Tresler meant to deal with Jake in a similar manner. The rest must be left to the circumstances they had discussed. It so happened that Jake, too, was late abed that morning. Tresler found him just finishing the breakfast Jinks had brought him.
It needs or'nary men, you know, to make chief 'uns. Ha! ha! Come, now, if you can't hold your tongue, try to speak and eat at the same time."
Whereupon Gillie suggested, that if possible he might have himself cleaned in an ordinary bath. "Impossible, my lad," said the Captain, decidedly. "No or'nary bath would clean you under a week, unless black soap and scrubbin' brushes was used. "But don't be alarmed, Gillie," he added, looking down with a twinkle in his eyes, "I'll go into the bath along with you.
By the sound of its feet we c'd tell it was no or'nary prairie cayuse, an' soon, sure enough, Broken Feather came inter view, with the goods in a gunny sack slung over his shoulder. Before he guessed we were there before he c'd whip out his gun we'd dropped on him." "Ah," said Sheriff Blagg, stroking his chin. "I allow you did that business with considerable credit, Nick Undrell.
I hope the gen'lmen and der fair sex will scuse my usin' an or'nary sort o' 'parison. Here! I'm a trying to get top o' der hay. Wal, I puts up my larder dis yer side; 'tan't no go; den, cause I don't try dere no more, but puts my larder right de contrar side, an't I persistent? I'm persistent in wantin' to get up which ary side my larder is; don't you see, all on yer?"
He waz powerful or'nary, that Belshazzar, lordin' it over everybody an' allus huntin' trouble. "He waz mean to thu she-goat an' treated her scan'lous! The more she tried to be sociable an' nice the more biggoty he got. She'd go up'n nuzzle 'im an' he'd back off an' look at her scornful and walk away high an' mighty-like on thu tips uv he's toes, jest like he's walkin' on aigs.
"`If you don't obey orders, growled the leftenant 'tween his teeth, `I'll have ye strung up for mutiny every man Jack of you load! he repeated in a kind of a yell. "We had our or'nary belts and pouches on, so we out wi' the or'nary cartridges some three, some four, an', biting off the ends, poured in the powder somehow, shoved in the balls anyhow, an' rammed the whole consarn down.
Cautious and severe, his chief aim was to express the hope that I was sincere in my indecision. "We had a sair shock wi' a former minister long years ago," he said, "he had a call, like yirsel', but he aye kept puttin' us off, tellin' us he was aye seekin' licht frae above; but Sandy Rutherford saw an or'nary licht in the manse ae nicht after twal o'clock.
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