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Updated: June 6, 2025
One wet morning, soon after her arrival, she was thus disporting herself, flitting from point to point, light-hearted and light-footed, when the old gardener, who did not then know her, seeing her about to descend a treacherous bit of ground from the terrace, called out, "Be careful, Miss; it's slape!" a Yorkshire word for slippery.
Some engineering tools stood in one corner, some mining tools in another; caps were hanging on the wall, and odds and ends of many kinds were scattered about. The man took down a heavy overcoat, and spread it on the table. "There," he said, "ye can slape on that." "That'll be very nice," said Ralph; "it'll be a sight better'n stayin' out in the street all night." "Right ye are, me lad!
Sorra a thing will she hear of this till mornin', and I'll put you in my own bed, and slape on two cheers in the scullery, for it'd niver do for the boys' grandfather to be used like a beggar-man."
To be sure, me pretty lady, and at a moment's notice, too. Why, it's meself will slape in the bottom of the long cart this blessed night, and all you has to do is to come and pull the front lock of me hair, and I'll be up in a jiffy. You give it a sharp tug, Miss Nora, for I slapes heavy; but if you come, the long cart and the powny will be there." "Then that's all right," answered Nora.
He slipped cautiously around a corner of the shed, making no sound in the deep dust surrounding it, and stole back the way he had come, tingling. "Begob, I'll slape now a little while!" As Carson vanished down the tracks a head was stuck out through the doorway of the shed and turned so that its owner could scan his surroundings. "All clear," he whispered.
Ethel shook her head sadly: "I feel to-day that I'll never know happiness again." "Sure, I've felt like that many a time since I've been here. Ye know three meals a day, a soft bed to slape in an' everythin' ye want besides, makes ye mighty discontented.
Sure it's not ivery day I git the chance; an' there's no fear o' ye overhaulin' Mister Tom this night. We'll have to slape over it, I'll be bound. Just tell the boys I'll be after them in no time." So saying Paddy shouldered his rifle, felt knife and axe to make sure of their being safe in his belt, and strode away in the track of the bear.
"You may give me the money," said Bridget; "and it's I that wonder how you can slape in your bed, when you are so hard on poor folks." Mrs. McCarty departed with her money, and Eliakim fixed his sharp eyes on the next customer. It was a tall man, shabbily dressed, with a thin, melancholy-looking face, and the expression of one who had struggled with the world, and failed in the struggle.
Peether t' it!" "Jist tell us aanyway, Hughie," Anna urged and the beggar-man proceeded. "I was be th' oul Quaker graveyard be Moylena wan night whin th' shadows fell an' bein' more tired than most I slipt in an' lay down be th' big wall t' slape.
"When ye get to Glasgow, if ye are on the lookout for a place to slape, try Barney O'Toole's in Argyle Street. The place is nothin' to look at, but it's a hummer inside, sor." I yawned drowsily once more, but the hint did not stop him.
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