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"If she isn't," said Miss Shott, "I don't see what she'll do with all the rooms in that new part of the house." "She's goin' to live in it," said Willy. "That's what she's goin' to do with it!" "Boarders are very uncertain," remarked Miss Shott, "and just as likely to be a loss as a profit. Mr.
Gore shott one of the Animals before spoke of, which weighed 80 pounds and 54 pounds, exclusive of the entrails, Skin, and head; this was as large as the most we have seen. Saturday, 28th. Winds and weather as above, without the least Variation the whole of the 24 hours. The Carpenters finish'd caulking the Ship. Sunday, 29th.
There was Tom Henderson, who's no more fit to wear a box-hat than his bull is; and there was old Charley Shott know him? a man with a wonderful appetite for pig-meat is old Charley Shott. "Now, listen to what happened next.
But I would not willingly swallow their plums; they would rise shrewdly in a man's stomacke. Cap. At the first shott, when the Convertine came in, 3 men were killd. Ma. At the second 4, was't not? Cap. At the third two more: one salutation Came so close that, with the very wind, My hands have almost lost the sense of feeling. Jewell, thou mad'st thy muskett spitt fire bravely. Ma.
The fact that nobody had ever said that Burke had commanded a vessel, and that Miss Shott had started the belief that Mrs. Cliff was in a rapid decline, entirely escaped the attention of her hearers, so interested were they in the subject of the unworthiness of the fine gentleman at the hotel.
Sol. 5 hundred Bulletts sticke in her sides. Pike. 'Tis well they scaped her heart, lying all the fight little more than pistoll shott from 'em; her Starboard still to the fort & at least 200 Musketts playing upon her. I wish'd heartily some of our London roaring Boyes had bene in the heate of't. Sol. Wouldst have 'em twice burnt. Pike.
There came out of ye vast forest a multitude of bears, 300 at least together, making a horrid noise, breaking ye small trees. We shott att them, butt they stirred not a step. We weare much frightened that they stirred nott att our shooting. Ye great ffrench dogg would fain encounter them notwithftanding he was tyed.
Cliff had been shamefully insulted by Miss Shott, who had accused her of extravagance, and, by implication, of dishonesty, and in return, the indignant widow had opened upon her such a volley of justifiable retaliation that Miss Shott, in great wrath, had retired from the house, followed, figuratively, by a small coin which she had brought as a present and which had been hurled after her.
Accident! my friend Reuben told me the other day his marriage was an accident. The more I think about accidents, the less do I believe in them. By chance he had an invitation to go to Shott Woods one afternoon, and there he saw the girl who afterwards became his wife and the mother of children with a certain stamp upon them.
In companies where there were married ladies she was sometimes obliged to take a second place, but never among maidens, old or young. There were very few subjects upon which Miss Shott had not an opinion; and whatever this opinion might be, she considered it her first duty in life to express it. As a rule, the expression was more agreeable to her than to others. When Mrs.
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