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De sarpint he done fotch mudder Ebe seben apples, an' ebery one she take a bite out of gib her a debbil." As might have been expected, this sermon produced a great sensation, and made a deep impression on the congregation.
And what is ales but sarpints, my Lady?" said Mrs. Fry throwing out her hands, "and what makes the man so friendly with sarpints, that he must come to save mun? We know, do you and I, my Lady, who is the old sarpint and the father of sarpints. And then what was he doing with that strange baste on his shoulder, my Lady?" "Why, it was only a tame squirrel," said Lady Eleanor.
'Ben Marston, by all that's lucky, boys! says he, as two of the other chaps came running down at the shot. 'We've got the ould sarpint out of his hole at last. With that they all fires at father as quick as they could draw; and Aileen gives one scream and starts running along the track up the hill that leads to George Storefield's place.
Why, I once knew a man named Snip who said he had been attacked one night in South America by a sarpint full forty feet long, and who saved his life by means of a blunderbuss, though he didn't fire at the reptile at all." "Indeed, how was that?" asked Jerry. "Why, just because his weapon was bell-mouthed an' loaded a'most to the muzzle.
You see, the poor fellow was awoke out of a deep sleep and couldn't well see, so that instead o' firin' at the brute, he fired his blunderbuss about ten yards to one side of it, but the shot scattered so powerfully that one o' the outside bullets hit a stone, glanced off, and caught the sarpint in the eye, and though it failed to kill the brute on the spot, the wound gave it such pain that it stood up on its tail and wriggled in agony for full five minutes, sending broken twigs and dry leaves flying about like a whirlwind, so Snip he jumped up, dropped his weapon, an' bolted.
But 'Rill Drugg and little Lottie were continually in her mind. From Walky Dexter, with whom she rode home to Polktown on Friday, she gained some information that she would have been glad not to hear. "Talk abeout the 'woman with the sarpint tongue," chuckled Walky. "We sartain sure have our share of she in Polktown."
An' there ain't no luck! I'stead o' gitting more we git less, an' that wi' harder work, as is a wearin' out me an' the b'ys; an' " Here he was interrupted by a cry from the bed. It was the voice of little Moxy, the Sarpint o' the Prairies. "I ain't wore out, father! I'm good for another go." "I ain't neither, gov'nor. I got a lot more work in me!" "No, nor me," cried the third. "I likes London.
"`And why then, sez he, argumentifying on to me like a shot, `and why then shouldn't there be such a thing as the sea sarpint? "This flummuxed me a bit, for I couldn't find an answer handy, so I axed him another question to get out of my quandary. "`But why, Gil, did you say you had seed a ghost, when it was a sarpint? "This time he was bothered for a moment.
Didn't I see it with my own eyes, and I was as wide awake as you are, and not caulking? "`The sea sarpint! I repeated scornfully, laughing again in a way that made Gil wild. `Who ever heard tell of such a thing, except in a Yankee yarn?
That there long-necked sarpint thing has only got to make a rush and chuck itself out of the water aboard us here, and break the schooner's back, and where should us be then?" "I don't know," said the skipper shortly. "But what do you say, doctor?"
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