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He informed me that he did not feel himself at liberty to relate what had passed between himself and Professor Pumpkinskull, but had no objection to state that it was connected with a matter of police regulation, and added with peculiar significance "Never wos sitch times!"
Any fool can a put down his five nothings; but a's a clever kinchin an a can place a so much as a I afore 'em. Whereof the first frost that brings a white crow may, in sitch a case, behappen to shew him his betters. For why? A's a got wherewithall to get more: and a knows the trick on't too, or a would a never a got so much.
Most o' aw, rating 'em as so much Power, and reg'latin 'em as if they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi'out loves and likens, wi'out memories and inclinations, wi'out souls to weary and souls to hope when aw goes quiet, draggin on wi' 'em as if they'd nowt o' th' kind, and when aw goes onquiet, reproachin 'em for their want o' sitch humanly feelins in their dealins wi' yo this will never do 't, sir, till God's work is onmade.
No, indeed! and I shant do sitch a thing, Benjamin. This treatment is a newity to me, and what I wont put up with. I have a hundred and fifty dollars at use, besides a bed and twenty sheep, to good; and I dont crave to live in a house where a body mustnt call a young woman by her given name to her face. I will call her Betsey as much as I please; its a free country, and no one can stop me.
"That's true," said he, looking round him in all directions; "hold on, comrades, yonder's a mound with a bare top, we'd better camp there. Makin' a big blaze on sitch a place'll show the red reptiles we don't care a gun-flint for them, and they'll not dare to come near, so we won't have to watch."
"Vell, you see," continued the boy, "ven I'd made myself so disagreeable that the old gen'l'man would 'ave nothin' to do with me, I came straight away, an' 'ere I am; but it was a trial, let me tell you, specially ven 'e come to mention wages an sitch a 'eavenly smell o' roasted wittles come up from the kitchen too at the moment, but I 'ad only to look at Miss Di, to make me as stubborn as a nox or a hass. `Wot! thinks I to myself, `betray that hangel no, never! yet if I was to go into that 'ouse I know I'd do it, for daddy's got sitch a wheedlin' way with 'im w'en 'e likes, that I couldn't 'old hout long so I giv' old Swallowed-the-poker sitch a lot o' cheek that I thought 'e'd kick me right through the winder.
"Well, what d'ye want, you noisy scamp?" said Barret, flinging the door open, and revealing the small figure of Willie Willders. "Please, sir," said Willie, consulting the back of a note; "are you Mister T-Tom Tupper, Esquire?" "No, I'm not." "Ain't there sitch a name in the house?" "No, not that I know of." Willie's face looked blank.
"What a bootiful bufferfly you is, to be sure! up on sitch a place too, wid nuffin' to eat 'cept Krakatoa dust. I wonder what your moder would say if she know'd you was here. You should be ashamed ob yourself!" "Hallo! Moses, what are you talking to over there?" "Nuffin', Massa Nadgel. I was on'y habin' a brief conv'sation wid a member ob de insect wurld in commemoration ob de purfesser.
Ob course I kin talk wid de peons an' de gauchos, whose conv'sation am mostly 'bout grub, an' hosses, an' cattle, an' dollars, an' murder, but when I tries to go in for flosuffy, an' sitch like, I breaks down altogidder."
On'y I don't b'lieve he ever sported nuffin but a swagger, and and `aw! W'en I git up dis mornin' I heerd 'im say to his friend: `I say, Jack, wouldn't it aw be dooced good fun to go and aw hab a slap at de Injins? If de Injins send a spear troo his libber aw he'll not t'ink it sitch fun!" "That's true, Quash, but the same may be said of ourselves."
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