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Updated: May 8, 2025
Guess you was born a gentleman, Bob, which I wa'an't. An' because you was born an' raised that-a-way you'd surely like to kep right hold o' the notion that folks ken still act as though they'd been weaned on talk of honor an' sichlike. I sez kep a holt on that notion. Grip it tight, an' don't never let go on it. Grab it same as you would the feller that's yearnin' fer your scalp.
'E never tol' me 'oo 'is people were; I shouldn't think they could 'ave bin Brown Borough people, for Elbert seemed to 'ave bin about a lot, seen mountains an' oceans an' sichlike, an' come acrost a lot of furriners even Germans. 'E talked a lot about people as good as a novelette 'is stories was, but bloody 'igh-flavoured. Children knows a lot in the Brown Borough.
I, fur one, likes a bit o' somethin' more substantial, that a feller can chew. 'Spose we goes a-huntin', hey?" "Very good," replied Mr Meldrum to this exordium; "but what shall we hunt!" "Anything you durned please, siree," said the other. "There's seals and them penguins besides lots of cormorants and sichlike."
Easter air a-gettin' high notions," she was saying, " 'n' she air a-spendin' her savin 's, 'n' all mine she kin git hold of, to buy fixin's at the commissary. She must hev white crockery, 'n' towels, 'n' newfangled forks, 'n' sichlike." A conscious flush came into the girl's face, and she rose hastily and went into the house.
'Tis like this: your man did take plain Nature for God, an' he did talk fulishness 'bout finding Him in the scent o' flowers, the hum o' bees an' sichlike. Mayhap Nature's a gude working God for a selfish man, but she edn' wan for a maid, as you knaws by now.
"Suits me all right, sir," he said, "seein' as 'ow I've bin in it a matter o' fifteen year. But between you an' me, sir," he hastened to add, "it ain't like wot it wus when I fust jined. It's full o' noo-fangled notions an' sichlike." "What d'you mean?" I asked in some amazement. "Carn't say no more, sir.
"I've know'd white men," interrupted Redhand, "who called themselves Christians, and didn't object to take scalps when they got the chance." "So have I," returned Bounce, "an' more's the pity. It's sichlike blackguards as these that keeps honest trappers and fur-traders for iver in hot water here.
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