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Rubbin his hot face with a red handkercher, he said, "Is the strange bein a American?" "He is." "A Gen'ral?" "No." "A Colonial?" "No." "A Majer?" "Not a Majer." "A Capting?" "He is not." "A leftenant?" "Not even that." "Then," said the lan'lord of the Green Lion, "you ar deceeved! He is no countryman of yours." "Why not?" I said. "I will tell you, Sir," said the lan'lord.
"That's the first occasion; come to the second." "Just the same," says Bogle. "Same time?" "Yes." "Did he always put his hand inside his sleeve to rub?" "I don't know." "But I want to know." "If your shirt was unbuttoned, Mr. Hawkins, and you was rubbin' your arm, you would draw up your sleeve " "Never mind what I should do; I want to know what you saw."
He'd have gotten away with the act, too, if he hadn't capped it by takin' the wildest chances anybody could have thought up. While he's ramblin' around Havana, takin' in all the sights and rubbin' elbows every minute with men who'd ask no better sport than giving him a permanent chest puncture if they'd known who he was, what does he do but get tangled up in a love affair.
But, bless ye, they had but one oar; for they'd thrown a' t' others after me; so yo' may reckon, it were some time afore we could reach t' ship; an' a've heerd tell, a were a precious sight to look on, for my clothes was just hard frozen to me, an' my hair a'most as big a lump o' ice as yon iceberg he was a-telling us on; they rubbed me as missus theere were rubbing t' hams yesterday, and gav' me brandy; an' a've niver getten t' frost out o' my bones for a' their rubbin', and a deal o' brandy as I 'ave ta'en sin'. Talk o' cold! it's little yo' women known o' cold!
My experience, though, is that it's right hard to shake a horse to pieces. Pinto, he stood it all right. And say, he got so gentle, with that tall blinder between his eyes, that he'd 'a' followed off a sheepherder. "All this time we was throwin' oats a-plenty into Pinto, rubbin' his legs down, and gettin' him used to a saddle a little bit lighter than a regular cow saddle.
I'm takin' your word." "Talk about miracles!" says Millie, countin' the money dazed. "Bless you, Sorr!" says Tim husky as I shows 'em out. And I finds Elisha P. sittin' there rubbin' his hands expectant.
It's only throwing pearls before swine." "I didn't mane to offind you," replied the warm-hearted brother; "I meant you no offince in what I said, so don't take it ill we'll have Sobersides out in no time and barrin' an extra rubbin' down to both of you, neither will be the worse, I hope."
There's mighty few men in this town could have brought your daughter home as neat as I did. 'Well, well, says he, rubbin' his hands, 'I expect I'll have to pay for the whole term of the school, whether she's there or not, and the business will come heavy on me.
Don't go rubbin' it in, kid!" protested Mr. McCorquodale hastily. "Y'r lamp's quit smokin', aint it? Ferget it. Them two guys I was with that night was a couple o' bums as was workin' fer Nickleby on a job an' I was just stringin' 'm along nice when you comes buttin' in an' rings down the curtain on me, see. I's workin' fer Brady then.
We wint coughin' and sneezin' an' rubbin' our eyes down into a cellar, where the lads of another ingin was at work before us wi' the hand-pumps, an', would ye belaive it? but the walls o' that cellar was lined wi' coffins! True for ye, there they was, all sizes, as thick as they could stand.
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