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"I caught him smugglin' beer by the sea an' he was drinking those two bottles he'd smuggled an' he had thousands an' thousands of cigars all over him, an' I caught him, an' he's a smuggler an' I brought him up here with my gun. He's a smuggler an' I took him prisoner." Mr. Jones, red, and angry, his hair awry, glared through the wickerwork of his basket. He moistened his lips.
Neighbour Dearborne's darter married a gentleman to Yarmouth, that speculates in the smugglin' line. Well, when she went on board to sail down to Nova Scotia, all her folks took on as if it was a funeral; they said she was goin' to be buried alive like the nuns in Portengale that get a-frolickin', break out of the pastur', and race off, and get catched and brought back agin.
I'm er your friend. Don't ah get annoyed, little boy. Don't ah get annoyed. Won't you put your gun down, little man? Won't you let me carry it for you?" William walked behind, still pointing his pop-gun. "I've took you prisoner for smugglin'," he repeated doggedly. "I'm takin' you home. You're my prisoner. I've took you." They met no one on the road, though Mr.
"Bless you, suh, it ain't any question of lettin' an' thar never has been sence the boy first put on breeches. Why, when I refused to sell him whisky at my sto', what did he do but begin smugglin' it out from town! Fletcher found it out an' blew him sky-high, but in less than a month it was all goin' on agin."
"Oh, there's nothing in it," said Lin, dismissing the subject. "Have yu' been to the opera since we went to Cheyenne, Mrs. Taylor?" Mrs. Taylor had not. "Lin," said the Virginian, "did yu ever see that opera Cyarmen?" "You bet. Fellow's girl quits him for a bullfighter. Gets him up in the mountains, and quits him. He wasn't much good not in her class o' sports, smugglin' and such."
The captain paused at this point, and opened fire with his pipe for some minutes. "Now," he continued, "there's another thing I want to ax you. I'm goin' to-morrow afternoon to take a cruise along the cliffs to the east'ard in the preventive boat, just to keep up my sea legs. They've got scent o' some smugglin' business that's goin' on, an' my friend Leftenant Lindsay has asked me to go.
Well, some folks say its the Banks, says he; better still, says I, perhaps you've hearn tell too that greasing the axle, makes a gig harder to draw, for there's jist about as much sense in that. Well then, says he, others say its smugglin has made us so poor. That guess, said I, is most as good as tother one, whoever found out that secret ought to get a patent for it, for its worth knowin.
'The crop o' the bunch' they called her the crop o' the devil's bunch she was no cheel o' my gettin'. Her'll burn for a million years or better all along o' free-traadin'. Free-traadin'! curse 'em why doan't they call it smugglin' an' have done?" Joe Noy had fallen back.
You never had an open hand nor soft heart; and because you've made money, not out o' smugglin' alone, but out o' poor devils of smugglers that didn't know rightly to be rogues, you think to fling your dirt where you choose. But aw'll have ye to-night as a man, and aw'll have ye to-night as a King's officer, or aw'll go damned to hell.
It don't do, you know, to talk tory in the house of a radical, to name a bishop to a puritan, to let out agin smugglin' to a man who does a little bit of business that way himself; or, as the French say, 'to talk of a rope in a house where the squatter has been hanged. If you want to please a guest, you must have some of his favourite dishes at dinner for him; and if you want to talk agreeably to a man, you must select topics he has a relish for.
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