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Ye've seen the wife and the bairn, the wee ane wi' the fair curly pow. Ye ken the auld hoose. It'll be mony a lang day afore I see them again, if iver I come back ava. There's naebody left to care for them. They'll be starvin' soon, lad. Wull ye wull ye look doon?" Poor Davy Spink stopped here, and covered his face with his big sunburnt hands. A sudden gush of sympathy filled Ruby's heart.
"It's a habit we're goin' to break one of these days, Mose. What happened!" "Huh! Ast me whut didn't happen! Ol' 'Lijah, he got off good, an' first dash wham! he gits bumped by 'at ches'nut hawss o' Dyer's. I taken him back some an' talk to him, an' jus' when I'm sendin' him again pow! Jock Merritt busts ol' 'Lijah 'cross 'e nose 'ith his whip.
De leaves on de groun' 'uz so wet dey don't make no fuss, en I got in de woods, en w'enever I year de Yankees gwine by, I des stop in my tracks en let un pass. I wuz stan'in' dat away in de aidge er de woods lookin' out cross a clearin', w'en piff! out come a little bunch er blue smoke fum de top er wunner dem big lonesome-lookin' pines, en den pow!
It looks bigger'n Lake Erie, 'n' 'fore I kin jerk the hat away pow! comes another one. I knows the colonel sees 'em, 'n' I hopes I croak. "'Ahem , he says. "'Now I get mine! I says to myself. "'Mr. Jones, says the colonel, 'n' his voice is kind-a cheerful. 'The judges will accept your explanation. You may go if you wish." Just as I'm goin' down the steps the colonel stops me.
In truth, there's wondrous things spoke of him. Men. Wondrous, ay, I warrant you... Vir. The gods grant them true! Vol. True? Pow wow! Men. True? I'll be sworn they are true. Vol. I' the shoulder, and i' the left arm: There will be large cicatrices to shew the people, when he shall stand FOR HIS PLACE. He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts i' the body. Men.
"As he rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow; But the young Plants of Grace they looked couthie and slee, Saying, 'Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee." In the autumn of that year my chest became so troublesome that I was obliged to try Italy. Thither I went; and, about the same time, Guy was gazetted to the Life Guards.
Why, it warn't two minutes till they begged like dogs and how the other lot did yell and laugh and clap their hands all the way through, and shout 'Sail in, Corpse-Maker! 'Hi! at him again, Child of Calamity! 'Bully for you, little Davy! Well, it was a perfect pow- wow for a while. Bob and the Child had red noses and black eyes when they got through.
Yet, though his contemporary biographer calls Pepys the greatest and most useful public servant that ever filled the same situations in England, Pepys would not now be honoured if he had not kept the most amusing diary in the world. Samuel was a highly conscientious, truly pious man, constant in all religious exercises, though he did slumber when the Scot wagged his pow in a pulpit.
And Edward has lost his pow " He broke off; stopped by the look of angry reproach from his wife, cast on him for the first time in their married life. He took her hand and bent down to her: fervent love, if ever she read it, in his eyes and tones. "Forgive me, Anne; you are feeling this." "Why do you throw these slights on my children? Why are you not more just?"
Even if Elder McCakeron had paid Neil's bill of damage instead of remarking that he "didna see as the turnips had hurt his cows," the thing would have addled in the egg; and his recalcitrancy, so necessary to the hatching, has caused many a wise pow to shake over the inscrutability of Providence.
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