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Vercoe listened with the keenest interest, every now and then raising her two fat hands in amazement, then resting them again on her plump sides. "Oh, my dears! oh, my dears!" she kept gasping. "What owdacious wickedness there do be in this world, to be sure. To think of it! Well, I never did! And if they ain't caught and punished it'll be no more nor less than a crying shame."
But they were always made at the season when people had nothing to do but to talk about them. Mr. Thomas Reid, the conservative sexton, turned up his nose at them, and said he "wished Nat Barker had to dig a parish depth grave in three hours without a drop of nothin' to wet his pipe with, and if he didden fine that groun' oncommon owdacious Thomas Reid he didden know.
"If it ain't plum owdacious I wisht he could be made a Colonel." "That's a title for fighting men," said Abe. "An' that man has fit for his life ever since he was born," said Mrs. Lukins. "He's fit the measles an' the smallpox an' the fever an' ager an' conquered 'em." "I reckon he deserves the title," Abe remarked.
"What you?" exclaimed the Peddler, regarding me with eye of scorn. "You eh?" he repeated. "Well, burn my neck, there's imperence for ye!" "Put up your hands!" said I. "What fight, is it?" "It is!" said I. "Unless you prefer to depart immediately." "Well, twist my innards!" exclaimed the Peddler, laying aside his brooms. "The owdacious young willin'! Wants t' fight!
Oh, you wretch! Oh, you willinous rascal, to take human life in that scandalous manner! I see you punch him with the knife, you butcher, you! and I'll swear it agin you in court, too, you owdacious rascal!" They took her into the rear car and soothed her, while the victim wiped the catsup off his coat.
So, you see, smart seaman though I fancied myself to be even at that early age, I had to look out lest I should be supplanted by my own chum; for no sooner did I get the start of him in one thing than he would fetch alongside of me and be working ahead before I well knew where I was, the `owdacious young beggar, as father dubbed him, becoming actually a `royal-yard boy' the following week to myself, while both of us, as I have said, were made first-class boys together.
Here he was seized from behind by the throat, and hurled round heavily to the ground. 'Why, then, you spalpeen of an owdacious vagabone, it's well but I smash every bone in yer skin. Of all the impudence I ever heerd in my whole life, you bate it out, clear and clane! O, murther, if I could only give you the batin' I'd like, only maybe the master 'ud be vexed! And Mr.
'Only I'm afeard if I began I wouldn't know how to lave off, 'twould be so pleasant, ye owdacious villain. Ha! ye'd throw the stick at me, would ye? and Mr. Callaghan was across the fence in a twinkling. Whereupon Nim fairly turned tail, and fled ignominiously, after having ineffectually discharged a piece of timber, javelin-wise, at his enemy.
Wilson, who stared only in a less degree than Archie, for she deemed the new governess had gone suddenly mad, gave some voluble assent, and turned her attention upon Archie. "You naughty young monkey! How dare you rush out in that way with Sarah's heart-broom? I'll tell you what it is, sir, you are getting a might deal too owdacious and rumbustical for the nursery.
At last there was no way of saving dignity but to talk of something else and go above all, to talk of something else before going, lest the would-be benefactor should be thought a petty tyrant. "Oh, Johnnie? thank yer, miss 'e's an owdacious young villain as iver I seed but clever lor', you'd need 'ave eyes in yer back to look after 'im.
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