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Pade. She got merried by an Episcopal minister, and he furgot his surplus, and that was all she hed hired him fer, so she rented our'n fer him, and Mr. Jimmels, her new husband, took it outen the minister's pay. Somethin' allers goes wrong to her weddin's." "Does she have them often?" interrupted John gravely. "Quite frequent." "'Aug. 3, Mister Vedder, Ticket Seller to the Theayter. 1 doller.
Tell ye what, Harry, lad; that topsail of our'n is a good un a rare good un for a reach, and in a moderate breeze; but we ought to have a `ballooner' for running off the wind in light weather a whacking big un, with a `jack' as long as the bowsprit, and a yard as long as the lower-mast. I'm beginning to think we are under-sparred and under- sailed." I could scarcely agree with Bob in this.
"Never thought one way or t'other," he answered. "Jethro never had much to do with the boys. He's always in that tannery, or out buyin' of hides. He does make a sharp bargain when he buys a hide. We always goes shares on our'n."
"What!" cried the man fiercely; "'taren't stealing; they're wild birds, and as much our'n as his'n." "You're a donkey," said Lomax. "Why, there'd be no pheasants if they weren't reared like chickens." "That's so," said Hopley. "Why don't that gal bring a light?"
Master Beck, nothing's so vulgar as these nicknames in a first-rate situation. It is all very well when one lives with skinflints, but with such a master as our'n, respect's the go. Besides, Madame is not a French 'oman; she is one of the family, and as old a family it is, too, as e'er a lord's in the three kingdoms.
Still-hunt, after we'd been runnin' the hounds for a week and they'd shot off 'bout a thousand rounds o' ca'tridges round camp 'n' comin' back from doggin', till there wa'n't a deer within eight miles o' th' lake that wa'n't upon his hind legs listenin' where th' next bunch o' trouble was comin' from. But still-hunt it was for our'n, 'n' at it we went for th' next two days.
'None of our'n at all, says he; 'Warsaw in Poland. 'Well, I don't know, says I; 'what do you call worth while? 'Six dollars a day, expenses paid, and a bonus of one thousand dollars, if speculation turns out well. 'I am off, says I, 'whenever you say go. 'Tuesday, says he, 'in the Hamburg packet.
"Why, don't it tell about all sorts of gold and precious stones in the Revelations?" said the Captain; "that's all I meant. Them ar countries off in Asia ain't like our'n, stands to reason they shouldn't be; them's Scripture countries, and everything is different there." "Father, didn't you ever get any of those splendid things?" said Sally. "Laws, yes, child.
"I lost our'n," ventured Pony. "It don't seem fair that Milo has to get wet because I'm so bad about losing things, does it?" And he smiled engagingly up into the tall man's face Johnnie's own eyes, large-pupilled, black-lashed, full of laughter in their clear depths. Gray Stoddard stared down at them silently for a moment.
Suppose an old feller of eighty was to say, "When that 'ere young feller dies, I'm to inherit his property," what would you think? Why, I guess you'd think he was an old fool. No sir, if the English don't want their timber we do want it all; we have used our'n up, we hain't got a stick even to whittle. If the British don't offer we will, and St.
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