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Updated: July 5, 2025
But Shames said something to me, what-e-ver." "Just so; I forgot," continued Archie. "Well, McGregor said to the captain, `What would you think if we wass to sit still an' co into the pictur'?" "Oo, ay; that was just it, an' fery like him too," said the skipper, laughing at Archie's imitation, though he failed to recognise the similarity to his own drawling and nasal tones.
"Sais I to myself, 'A joke is a joke, if it tante carried too far, but this critter win be strangled, as sure as a gun, if he lays here splutterin' this way much longer. So I jist gives the hoss a dab in the mouth, and made him git up; and then sais I, 'Prince, sais I, for I know'd him by his beard, he had one exactly like one of the old saint's heads in an Eyetalian pictur, all dressed to a pint, so sais I, 'Prince, and a plaguy handsum man he is too, and as full of fun as a kitten, so sais I, 'Prince, and what's better, all his officers seemed plaguy proud and fond of him too; so sais I, 'Prince, voila le condition of one colonist, which, sais I, 'Prince, means in English, that leftenant is jist like a colonist.
"Lord, dear woman, I ha'n't much larnin', nor much religion, more's the pity; but I hope I have conscience enough to keep me from doing any young girl so cruel a wrong as to tempt her to throw away her youth and beauty on an old man like me; and I am sure I have sense enough to prevent me from doing myself so great an injustice as to buy a young wife, who, in the very natur' of things, would be looking for'ard to my death as the beginning of her life; for I've heard as how the very life of a woman is love, and if the girl-wife cannot love her old husband Oh, Hannah, let us drop the veil the pictur' is too sickening to look at.
"Weel," his widow explained, "ye see, Andra wis a Socialist an' thocht naething o' lords naething. I used to show him pictures o' them in the Heartsease Library fine-lukin' fellays wi' black mustacheys but he juist aye said, 'It's easy to draw a pictur', and he wouldna own that they wis onything but meeserable to look at. An', mind you, he wis richt. When I saw the lord in St.
Cheer up, Private Thomson; gi'e him the kidney punch on his whuskers! Guid stroke. Grocer! fair on his goods' entrance! We'll be payin' for to see ye in pictur' hooses yet the Brithers Basher! Gor, this is better nor a funeral! Keep it up, lads! And so forth. But it was far too fast to last. A few minutes, and both were utterly pumped. As though with mutual agreement, they paused panting.
'She shrieked "Father," and her face looked 'No, don't, tell me how she looked! said Sinfi. 'Mr. Wilderspin's pictur' o' the witch and the lady shows how she looked whoever she was. But if it was Winnie Wynne. what'll become o' him? Then I heard. Cyril address Wilderspin again.
"I looked over the fence, and I seed he had hoed jist ten hills of potatoes, and that's all. Fact I assure you. "Sais he, 'Mr. Slick, tell you what, of all the work I ever did in my life I like hoein' potatoes the best, and I'd rather die than do that, it makes my back ache so." "'Good airth" and seas, sais I to myself, 'what a parfect pictur of a lazy man that is! How far is it to Windsor?
In that way, favoured by Divine Providence, we may live to see our friends again." "Courage, Mr. Mark, courage, sir. I know it must be hard on the feelin's of a married man, like yourself, that has left a parfect pictur' behind him, to believe he is never to return to his home again. But I don't believe that such is to be our fate. I never heard of such an end to a Crusoe party.
Graham's pictur and gin him yourn 'long of one of them curls how he's writ and you've writ, and how he's gone off to the eends of the airth to get rid on you and how you try to cotch young Mas'r Durward, who hate the sight on you how you waylay him one day, settin' on a rock out by the big gate and how you been seen mighty nigh fifty times comin' home afoot from Captain Atherton's in the night, rainin' thunder and lightnin' hard as it could pour how after you done got Miss Anna to 'lope, you ax Captain Atherton to have you, and git mad as fury 'cause he 'fuses and how your mother warn't none too likely, and a heap more that I can't remember hain't you heard of none on't?"
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