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Why, ye couldn't hire some o' these Cape Cod females to get into a boat. Their men for generations was drowned and more'n forty per cent. of the stones in the churchyards along the coast, sacred to the mem'ry of the men of the fam'lies, have on 'em: 'Lost at sea. "Can't blame the women. Old Ella Coffin that lives on Narrer P'int over yonder ain't been to the main but once't in fifteen years.
An' then he went on to explain thet he would like to have anybody present thet was competent to do it to step forward an' examine him then an' there. An' he said thet ef he was examined fair and square, to the satisfaction of eve'ybody an' didn't pass why, he 'd give up the p'int. An' he wanted to be examined oral in eve'ybody's hearin' free-handed an' outspoke.
"On the p'int of your right shoulder, sir. You ain't quittin', Mr. Siward, sir!" anxiously; "that Shotover Cup is easy yours, sir!" eagerly; "Wot's a miss on a old drummer, Mr. Siward? Wot's twice over-shootin' cock, sir, when a blind dropper can see you are the cleanest, fastest, hard-shootin' shot in the null county!"
'Ard I works, ma'am, and the bread of poverty I eats, but honest I am, and honest I brings up those fatherless lambs, my children." Mrs. Cameron waved one of her fat hands impressively. "Pardon me, my good woman. I am really not interested in your family. Pray come to the point, and then go home." "To the p'int, ma'am? Oh, yes, I'll come to the p'int.
We've no time to waste. Now what'll you have? Coffee, tea, pork-sausage, ham and egg, buttered toast, hot rolls. Just help yourself, and fancy you're in the lodging-house at your own table." "Well, sir, that would be a stretch o' fancy that would strain me a'most to the bustin' p'int. Coffee, if you please. Oh yes, sugar an' milk in course. I never let slip a chance as I knows on.
"I see you come from the other side of the p'int." "Well, is that agin the laws o' war?" demanded Christy. "Not a bit on't," replied the captain pleasantly, as though his potations of whiskey were still in full effect upon him. "If you come from that way, have you seen anything of my four men that deserted the schooner?"
"After some argument Dick seed the p'int, and agreed, and we went at it. Wal, I needn't dwell on the partic'lars. Dick put up a stiff fight, and might have give me a good deal of trouble if it hadn't been that he was weakened by whiskey, while I had long got rid of the effects of the last drop.
"Very well," said Ben, "but, to return to the p'int which is, if I may so say, a p'int of distinkshun between topers an' argifiers, for topers are always returnin' to the pint, an' argifiers are for ever departin' from it to return to it, I say: you've no notion of the pecoolier sirkumstances in which I left my poor old mother.
Warren. "I suppose you will admit there are privileged classes now among us, Mr. Warren?" "I am ready enough to allow that, sir; it is too plain to be denied." "Wa-all, I should like to hear you p'int 'em out; that I might see if we agree in our sentiments." "Demagogues are a highly privileged class.
You must learn it ef you want to keep me cheerful, Ally dear." "But I thought I knew it, Grannie," said the girl. "Not to say perfect, love the loop don't go right with you, and the loop's the p'int. Ef you don't draw that loop up clever and tight, you don't get the quilting, and the quilting's the feature that none of the workwomen in West London can master. Now, see yere, look at me.
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