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They had succeeded in close-reefing the topsails, and were hurrying down the rigging. The mate came close to the captain's side and said, "Did you see, sir, the way them men on the mainyard were scramblin' down?"
Jeeminnetticus! says Hadds, 'when he mixes coffin varnish for a man you'd think he was scramblin' eggs. Come on, Washy, he says, 'while you got the price. You'd like the business. "One night it happened Bitter Water Simpson was borne on the wings of evening to my place of business, and he calculated that the last two cards in the box would come out, queen first, trey next.
"I kind o' like to see 'em, Andy up and down and bobbin' and sloppin' and scramblin'; you never know where they'll come up next." "Don't need to," grumbled Andy. "Can't eat the blamed things nor wear 'em. I tell you, Willum," he turned a gloomy eye on his companion, "I tell you, you set too much store by wuthless things." "Mebbe I do," said William, humbly. "This one, now this painter fellow."
'Now, you long-legged villain, if I don't give you what's comin' to you, then Oh, there ain't no use in your climbin' out there; you can't get down. "The big barn doors was open, and, in the moonlight, Nate could see Gus scramblin' up and around on the flyin' stage where the professor's aeroplane was perched, lookin' like some kind of magnified June bug.
"Oh, an' may the Man above grant that, I pray Jamini this day! for are not we harrished out of our lives, scrapin' an' scramblin' for the black thieves, what we ought to put on our backs, an' into our own mouths. When a lad from the humblest classes resolves to go to Munster as a poor scholar, there is but one course to be pursued in preparing his outfit.
"Like t' owd flea-bitten mare used to stand bottom o' Church Hill out o' Water Street, waitin' for t' bus comin'. They'd take the bar offen 'er back, hitch it to pole, an' away she'd go, scratchin' and scramblin' up to moor, like cat on roof-tiles. Ha! ha!" laughed Ned, and took a pull from the pewter. "But, say, who be you, standin' drinks like an owd friend?"
Instinctively I thought "she'd had husbands to burn, but some wimmen can't get one to save their lives, and them that get one can't keep track on him." But I d'no whether she saved her vase or not, for we wuz parted by the hustlin', tearin', scramblin' mob, and I wuz carried in another direction, choked and blinded, and tossted and torn.
Mr Philp, passing and repassing many times a day, never missed to halt and attempt conversation; with small result, however. "It's a wonder to me," he grumbled at last, "how men of your age can risk scramblin' about on ladders with your mouths constantly full o' nails." In the evenings they supped together. Mrs Bowldler had made free to suggest this.
Efter a while he put oot the gas, an' syne began to tak' aff his claes, an' wide aboot amon' the furniture as uswal. He got intil his bed efter a quarter o' an oor's miscellaneous scramblin', an' was sune snorin' like a dragoon. When I got atower i' the mornin', what is there sittin' on my chair but a great muckle shortie in a braw box, wi' a Christmas caird on the tap o't.
"Time after time Abel come scramblin' up the sand-bank, bringin' 'em two 't once little girls they was, all about the age o' the first one, none of 'em with hats or cloaks on; an' I took 'em in my arms an' set 'em down, an' took 'em in my arms an' set 'em down, till I was fair movin' in a dream.
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