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It is royal we have plenty of kings who were Johns and, moreover, it is short, and sounds honest and manly." "Yes, very true, my dear; but they will call him Jack." "Well, we have had several celebrated characters who were Jacks. There was let me see Jack the Giant Killer, and Jack of the Bean Stalk and Jack Jack " "Jack Spratt," replied Mrs Easy.
Pretty's back when he, in pursuit of his duty, must crawl on all fours under the counter; his clinging to his legs when duty again called him to mount the steps for the topmost shelf. Nothing was too absurd, no tiny record too trivial to be precious in the mother's ears. A source of furtive interest to her were the movements of Willy Spratt, the cutler's son.
"Avast, my man-o-war," he cried; "blood and wounds! I had more than an eye when they brought thee aboard, else I would have killed thee like a sucking-pig under the forecastle, as I have given oath to do. By the Ghost, you are worth seven of that Roger Spratt whom you sent to hell in his boots."
The second mate, the doctor and I, and Spratt and Tommy Bigg, were the only ones of the ship's company who took the trouble to attend. Some kept away, they said, because the captain did not encourage the movement; and others had no better reason to offer than that as they never had had to attend services at sea, they did not know why they should now begin.
What say you to taking a boat and trying to catch a few? There is Johnny Spratt and one or two other men well accustomed to the work. Take them with you. You'll have plenty of time; these calms often last many days." The second mate said that he would be very happy to go, and instantly set about getting a boat ready.
The Reverend Devereux Spratt was captured off Youghal as he was crossing only from Cork to Bristol, and so distressed was the good man at the miserable condition of many of the slaves at Algiers, that when he was ransomed he yielded to their entreaties and stayed a year or two longer to comfort them with his holy offices.
"And what a perfectly darling 'Little Jack Horner!" added Tavia, for the characters were being selected with a view to making them as ridiculous as possible, and Tom would make a very funny "Jack Horner." Tom surveyed his thumb in anticipation. Roland and Tavia were assigned "Jack Spratt and His Wife."
Thornhill wants to settle the matter at once, losses on the turf, you understand; an immediate purchaser would get still better terms. A Sir John Spratt would give the money; but the addition of these lands would make the Spratt property of more consequence in the county than the Thornhill. So my client would rather take a few thousands less from a man who don't set up to be his rival.
I was a little jealous. But how could I be? Really, their voices are fine." Mr. Spratt, too, was of that opinion, and he came back to Bobby to say so most emphatically. "They'll do," said he. "After the first night they'll have this town crazy. If the seat sale don't go right for Monday we'll pack the house with paper, and the rest of the week will go big. Just hear that Ricardo!
I found, however, that many of the older sailors had a very rough and imperfect way of doing those ordinary things, and that some of the younger ones, who had been brought up under a better system, did them in a superior style, and far more expeditiously. My most willing instructor was an oldish man, John Spratt by name; Johnny Spratt he was generally called. He was very short and very fat.
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