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"You see, Joseph," said he to the urchin, who gazed gravely in his face with a pair of very large and dark eyes, "ponies is often skittish. Keason why one should be, an' another not, I can't comprehend. P'r'aps it's nat'ral, p'r'aps not, but howsomediver so 'tis; an' if it's more nor above the likes o' me, Joseph, you needn't be suprised that it's somethink haltogether beyond you."
The plumber, however, did not abandon his position, and seemed determined that they should hear him: 'I know, sir I see how things were with you with 'arf a glance; but afore we go any further, it's right you should know 'oo I am and all about me. Jest 'ear what I'm goin' to tell you, for it's somethink out of the common way, though gospel-truth.
"Well now, that is odd," answered Billy, "I've bin pumped somethink in this way before, though nuffin' good came of it as I knows on. No, I don't know what she was called afore she was married." "Did you ever hear of the name of Bream?" asked the captain anxiously. "Oh yes, I've heerd o' that name," said the boy, promptly. "There's a fish called bream, you know."
"I won't say as all you cockney chaps are the same as Collins," he returned magnanimously, "for it takes all kinds ter make a world. If you feels inclined some time, I'll walk you down to the Pig and Whistle and you shall 'ave a word or two with a chap I know. 'E'll tell yer somethink that'll make your 'air stand on end.
There's a somethink in her, a jenny-squaw, that haws me, sir! and even my Lord's own man, that 'as 'ad as much success as any gentleman in Europe he says that, cuss him " "Mr.
He had been drinking, and his eyes were red and bloodshot. Around his neck was slung a tin bottle, as I had often seen his meat and drink slung about him in other days. He brought the bottle to his lips, and took a fiery drink from it; and I smelt the strong spirits that I saw flash into his face. "Wolf!" said he, folding his arms again, "Old Orlick's a going to tell you somethink.
I'm goin' in the Seahawk in the mornin' see? But if you want to know somethink, I'll tell yer. Drunk or sober I bars the blasted p'lice, but if you like to tell 'em I'll put you on somethink worth tellin'. Sure the bottle's empty, mates?" I caught Harley's glance and divided the remainder of the whisky evenly between the three glasses.
"Don't you believe wot I've told you?" demanded the stoker haughtily. "You don't always lie, George," said the engineer, gently. "Wot made me shout out like that just now," he explained, "was treading on something queer, down by the near side wheels. Somethink brittle that cracked like rotten sticks under my 'eel, an' then I slid on something round an' squashy.
"He was always fond of his jest," commented Mrs. Higgs. "That he were," observed her lord. But it was after he went into the diplomatic service that the real trouble began. "It seems, sir, that he went the pace extraordinary," said the ex-butler, with a solemn gusto. "His debts were somethink awful," said the lady's-maid. "And as nice a young gentleman all the time as you would wish to see!"
"'T won't do, ye kneow, Sammy, to henter 'er as a tramp Cat, ye kneow," he observed to his help; "but it kin be arranged to suit the Knickerbockers. Nothink like a good noime, ye kneow. Ye see now it had orter be 'Royal' somethink or other nothink goes with the Knickerbockers like 'Royal' anythink. Now 'Royal Dick, or 'Royal Sam, 'ow's that? But 'owld on; them's Tom names.
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