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He was, however, good-humoured and chatty, and Ted, being in these respects like-minded, rather took a fancy to him, and slily encouraged his weakness. "Ye must have seed a power o' sarvice in the navy, now," he said, with an air of interest; "how came you to git into it?" "Ha! that wos cos o' me bein' sitch a strong, good-lookin' feller," replied Ali, with an air of self-satisfaction.
"I am," replied the sailor promptly. Then with a somewhat perplexed air, "Anyhow I hope I am, an' I try to act as sitch." "Good, I will soon prove it. You will be near the Cookee-men of Raratonga to-morrow. You will have chance to go with them and leave me; but if you do, or if you speak one word of Cookee-tongue you are not Christian.
"Whiskey?" he exclaimed. "There ain't no sitch animal," he lamented dolefully. "Miss Jennie's got some cooking brandy stuck away in the cellar," whispered Margaret. "We use it at Christmas time, for the plum pudding, you know. I guess it's the same thing as whiskey, ain't it?" "Well, hardly. Still, I think I could do with a nip of it, Maggie."
Of all the noses for length and redness and for blowin' like trumpets I ever did see well, well, it's no use conjicturin', but I do wonder sometimes what guv the ghosts sitch noses." "I suppose they knows that best themselves," observed Jack. "P'r'aps they does," replied Teddy with a meditative gaze at the fire.
And thof I have paradventerd, now and tan, umbelly to speak my foolish thofts, and haply may again a paradventer, when your most exceptionable onnur shall glorify me with a hearing, in sitch and sitch like cramp cases and queerums as this here; yet take me ritely, your noble onnur, it is always and evermore with every think of that there umbel and very submissive obedient kind.
"Toby," she said, "lieber Toby, I am so all-lofing by you you are sitch a good maan I am so so I am yoost all-lofing by you!" And she cried heartily upon his shoulder. "Toby, uf you ain'd here for me to-morrow by eckseckly dwelf o'glock, uf you are von minutes late, I'm goin' yoost fall down deat! Don' you led nothings happen mit you, Toby."
"Ob course, an' you're right for once, which is sitch an unusual t'ing dat I 'dvise you go an' ax de cappen to make a note ob it in de log. I's a nigger, an' a nigger's so much more 'cute dan a white man dat you shouldn't ought to expect him to blab his massa's secrets." "Right you are, Moses. Come, then, if you won't reweal secrets, give us a song."
"The devil!" cried another, dropping his knife and fork, "she who made the campaign of the Jerseys with us?" "The very same," replied the mistress of the hotel, with a piteous aspect of woe; "a gentle baste, and one that could and did live on less than air, at need. Sure, gentlemen, 'tis awful to have to eat sitch an ould friend."
"He was sitch a droll dog too. He'll be quite a loss to the neighbourhood; won't he, sir?" "I hope he won't," said Gorman, loud enough to be heard by several persons who lounged about their doors. "I hope to see him start afresh, an' git on better than ever, poor fellow; at least, I'll do all I can to help him."
I could see that when he brought it here, an' there's no clo'es in it, that I can see, when he opens it, to get at the few pence he wants now an' again. An' he starves hisself, an' says he's not fit to live, an' calls hisself sitch awful names, an' " "Well, well, show me his room," said Slagg, with as much decision in his tone as compelled immediate obedience.
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