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Ain't 'e, Old Un?" "Like a perishin' triphammer!" nodded the Old Un. "Likewise, sir, you've a wonderful judgment o' distance but, sir, you need experience!" "That's what I'm after, Joe." "And you take too many chances; you ain't larned caution yet." "That you must teach me, Joe." "Which I surely will, sir. In the next round, subject to no objection, I propose to knock ye down, sir."
Why, I've ben perishin' sometimes for want o' doctorin', and all he'd give me was a little pepsin, or tell me to take as much sody as would lay on the p'int of a penknife, or some such thing, not so much as you'd give to a canary-bird. I do sometimes wish we had a doctor who knew the use o' medicine, 'stead of everlastin'ly talkin' about the laws o' health, and hulsome food, and all them notions.
At last he tried: "Please tell me something about London. Some of you English Oh, I dunno. I can't get acquainted easily." "My dear child, I'm not English! I'm quite as American as yourself. I was born in California. I never saw England till two years ago, on my way to Paris. I'm an art student.... That's why my accent is so perishin' English I can't afford to be just ordinary British, y' know."
"No; I take stiddy to my knitting after January sets in," said the old seafarer. "'Tain't worth while, fish make off into deeper water an' you can't stand no such perishin' for the sake o' what you get. I leave out a few traps in sheltered coves an' do a little lobsterin' on fair days.
Truly, I had read much of the hardenin' effects of fashion and style, but I little thought they would harden so fearful hard. None of these men and wimmen settin' on them piazzas had gin any more attention to the blood-curdlin' news that a feller creeter so nigh 'em wuz perishin', no more than if they'd seen a summer leaf flutterin' down from the boughs overhead.
In a low voice, Tessibel began to sing; nor did she take her hand from the thin arm lying inertly on the sheet. "Rescue the Perishin'; Care for the Dyin'." came forth like the chanting of the chimes. When the words, "Jesus is merciful," followed, Bennet put up his hand and touched the girl's fingers. Tessibel closed her own over his.
"I'm thinkin'," he added, "he's been taen awa' frae the evil to come frae seein' the terrible consequences o' sic a saft way o' dealin' wi' eternal trowth and wi' perishin' men taen awa' like Eli, whan he brak his neck at the ill news. For the fire and brimstane that overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, is, I doobt, hingin' ower this toon, ready to fa' and smore us a'."
She had never dared to speak even to his sister, the pretty Teola Graves, who fluttered about with pink ribbons among her curls and wore high heels on her shoes. Suddenly Tess opened her lips and sent ringing over the lake in glorious tones of pathos, the hymn she loved best, "Rescue the perishin', Care for the dyin'." Tessibel knew what it meant to almost perish from the cold.
They're comin' up to help the perishin' in deep watters. "'Gie me the glass, I said. But Bell danced on the bridge, clean dementit. 'Mails-mails-mails! said he. 'Under contract wi' the Government for the due conveyance o' the mails; an' as such, Mac, yell note, she may rescue life at sea, but she canna tow! she canna tow! Yon's her night-signal. She'll be up in half an hour!
"'Jamie, you ken'd how I lo'ed an' trusted him, an' obeyed his ain wish in comin' out to this wearisome country to be his wife. But 'tis a' owre now. An' she passed her sma' hands tightly owre her breast, to keep doon the swellin' o' her heart. 'Jamie, I ken that this is a' for the best; I lo'ed him too weel, mair than ony creature sud lo'e a perishin' thing o' earth.
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