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"Aye," said Skedlock; "but aw've noan done yet, Nanny." "What, were'n they noan gradely sorted, then, at after o'?" "Well," said Skedlock, "I'll tell yo. "As I've yerd th' tale, this new organ wur tried for th' first time at mornin' sarvice, th' next day.
But the old man possessed a stubborn soul, not easily to be frightened. "Wot I says in de pulpit," he remarked, "I'll 'splain in de pulpit, an' you all ud better git 'long to de chu'ch, an' when de time fur de sarvice come, I'll be dar."
They puts 'em up for justices of peace, and sends 'em to the legislature, when they can't read more'n us; and they do say it's 'cause we fit in the Confederate sarvice that they razes the nigger over our heads. Now, does the folkes up north like to see white people tyrannized over by niggers?
Whenever I find him dull, and can't cheer him up no how I can fix it, by talk, or fun, or sight seein' or nothin', I make him vexed, and that excites him, stirs him up with a pot stick, and is of great sarvice to him. I don't mean actilly makin' him wrathy in airnest, but jist rilin of him for his own good, by pokin' a mistake at him. I'll shew you, presently, how I do it." As soon as Mr.
"We don't want to engage," said Martin; "we wish to speak with you, sir." "Oh, beg pardon!" cried Mr Jollyboy, leaping off the stool with surprising agility for a man of his years. "Come in this way. Pray be seated Eh! ah, surely I've seen you before, my good fellow?" "Yis, sir, that ye have. I've sailed aboard your ships many a time. My name's Barney O'Flannagan, at yer sarvice." "Ah!
The man sprang up in an instant, but instead of renewing the attack, to Oliver's surprise he came forward and held out his hand, which the youth was not unwilling to grasp. "Thank 'ee, sur," he said, somewhat sternly, "you've done me a sarvice; you've prevented me committin' two murders, an' taught me a lesson I never knaw'd afore that Jim Cuttance an't invulnerable.
The Englishman was now nettled, and determined to wreak his ill-temper on Mat, by turning him and his establishment into ridicule. "Isn't this, Mister I forget your name, sir." "Mat Kavanagh, at your sarvice." "Very well, my learned friend, Mr. Mat Kevanagh, isn't this precisely what is called a hedge-school?" "A hedge-school!" replied Mat, highly offended; "my seminary a hedge-school!
Would her father have approved of such a thing? But then it had lifted a load from her mind; she had shared her burden with another, and it was not so hard to bear. Besides, she was sure she could trust that big, rough man, who looked at her with such sympathetic eyes. "Ye'll come to sarvice, lassie, won't ye?" Pete asked, when Constance had opened the door.
I looked at my father, who did not seem to relish the hint, but he answered very frankly, "If you cut them as short as my wife cut mine, why, then you won't be troubled with them any more. I see, marm, you know all about it, and you may have your laugh if it pleases you; but I can tell you that my tail has done me better sarvice since it was off than when it hung down my back."
As for the wild fish, we were informed by a sharp boy who volunteered to show us the chalybeate spring, and who guided us through the woods barefoot, making himself ill with "sarvice" berries as he went, we were instructed by this naturalist that the trout were eaten away from the streams "by the alligators."
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