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For now we knew that he wasn't badly frightened by the adventure of the night before, and that we might get another chance at him. In the afternoon it began to rain; and it poured for forty-eight hours. We covered in our shelter before a smoky fire, and lived on short rations of crackers and dried prunes it was a hungry time." "But wasna there slathers o' food at the main camp?
"Hi'm as 'ungry for blunt as the next bloke, an' ye sye there's plenty hin it " "Slathers of it, Bingo," said the mate earnestly. "Why, man! some of these islands down here are rotten with buried pirate gold. Millions and millions was stole and buried by them old boys." "Yah! Hi've 'eard hall that before, Hi 'ave. Who hain't?" said Bingo, with considerable shrewdness.
Millions in the hands of my guardians, slathers of shekels of my mother's that'll be mine if she beats me to the crematory, another million waiting to be dug up, and in the meantime I'm cadging on Lavina for two drinks a day. It's hell, isn't it? when you consider my thirst." "Where's the island?" "It's a long way from here." "Name it." "Not on your life, Captain Grief.
They'd just as soon pull a fellow down as not, if they get a chance. 'And I was president of an Epworth once, and taught in the Sunday school. Having irrelevantly delivered himself of this, Mason fell into a dreamy contemplation of his steaming moccasins, but was aroused by Ruth filling his cup. 'Thank God, we've got slathers of tea! I've seen it growing, down in Tennessee.
In reply, the man pointed at his mouth, spreading black and swollen lips in the effort; and Smoke recoiled at the sight. "Scurvy," he muttered to Shorty; and the man confirmed the diagnosis with a nod of the head. "Plenty of grub?" Shorty asked. "Yep," was the answer from a man in another bunk. "Help yourself. There's slathers of it. The cabin next on the other side is empty.
It's been a drame av mine to begin my prefarmint as biship av some far-away continent or archypilago, like, an' convart slathers av haythins an' cannebals for a practice. It ud plase me imagenation to prache among corrils an' coky-nuts an' naked crachurs.
"You see, Tim," he said, "I've got slathers of money. It's growing all the time, and I ain't spending a cent of it, not so as you can notice... though that Mrs. Summerstone is getting a cold eighteen hundred a year out of me, with board and carriages thrown in, while you an' I are glad to get the leavings of firemen's pails in the round-houses. Just the same, my money's growing.
But he shook his head when she quizzed him. "You agree with me, Molly, don't you, that Kitty shall marry when and where she pleases?" "Certainly, Daniel. I don't believe in ready-made matches." "No more do I. Molly, old girl, I've slathers of money. I could quit now; but I'm healthy and can't play all day. Got to work some of the time. Every one around here shall do as they please.
The only thing she wanted, her husband's love, now flung at her feet in unstinted measure, pressed down and running over love, slathers of it all for her! It was sweet a pleasant change from pickles. "How's everybody?" "Here and there. Iva's gone." "Thank Heaven! Where'd she go?" "Dunno. Her husband took her off. Jealous of me." "H'm. And Daisy Snow?" "Gone into the movies.
"Fust of all, he wouldn't let you git mixed up in nothin' that would make the neighbors talk about ye," Mr. Day said promptly. "Now, whether Nelson Haley is innercent or guilty, there is bound ter be slathers of talk about this thing and about ev'rybody connected with it." "He is not guilty, Uncle," said Janice, quietly. "That's my opinion, too," said Mr. Day, bluntly.
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