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It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Hall and Millie, who had been roused by her scream of alarm, succeeded in getting her downstairs, and applying the restoratives customary in such cases. "'Tas sperits," said Mrs. Hall. "I know 'tas sperits. I've read in papers of en. "Take a drop more, Janny," said Hall. "'Twill steady ye." "Lock him out," said Mrs. Hall. "Don't let him come in again.
"You must go at once," said Maggie, recalled to common sense by another glance at the sleeping child. "The baby's but weakly, and there ain't nothing here as I can give her, except the sperits and water, until Nurse comes. I'll lay her just for a minute on the straw here, and go out with you and put you on the track. You follow the track right on until you see the lights in the village.
"Off with it this minute, then, Miss; it's better nor nought. Now, then, my lamb! my pretty! see ef Maggie don't pull you round in a twinkling!" She rubbed and chafed the little creature's limbs, and soon baby opened her eyes, and gave a weak, piteous cry. "I wish I had something to give her afore I put her in the bath," said Maggie. "There's sure to be sperits of some sort in a house like this.
"Yass, 'm, but he make his promise to Miss Flo'a he won't tech de gun hisseff." What! Miss Flora ? "Oh, she be'n, but she gone ag'in. Law'! she a brave un! It e'en a'most make me brave, dess to see de high sperits she in!" The narrator departed. How incredible was the hour.
"'Sure, I didn't think the likes of you would taste sperits. "'Try me, said the ghost; and with that he filled out a glass, and tossed it off like a Christian. "'Beamish! says the ghost, smacking his lips. "'The same, says my father; 'and sure what's happened you has not spoiled your taste.
So Josiah and I sot off alone, and he bein' in good sperits and bein' gin to new and strange projects, proposed that we should take an ortomobile. I didn't favor the idee and said: "Id'no about it, Josiah, I feel kinder skairful about ortos, I fear that it might prove our last ride." "But," sez he, "with a good shuffler there hain't any danger."
If I cotch ya at your tricks I'll leather ya fust an' clap ya in the stocks afterwards, sure as my name be Randle Malkin. "But as I wan sayin', if ya foller th' example o' General Clive, an' turn yer young sperits into the lawful way why, mebbe there be gowd swords an' mints o' money somewheers fur ya too.
That be good fur the woman fur sartin, and will cheer her sperits when she be downhearted; fur a woman takes as naterally to tea as an otter to his slide, and I warrant it'll be an amazin' comfort to her, arter the day's work be over, more specially ef the work had been heavy, and gone sorter crosswise.
Custis, I reckon you'd better let him come in the tavern and take a little sperits; it'll strengthen his nerves an' make him drive better." As they drank at the old summer-resort bar, at that time in the height of its celebrity, and the only spa on the peninsula, south of the Brandywine Springs, Phoebus spoke low to the negro: "Dave, somethin' not squar and fair is a-workin' yer, by smoke!
I felt my sperits much revived on our near approach to the river at the sight of a herd of Elk of which Drewyer and myself killed two. we then hurried to the river and allayed our thirst.
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