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A good bold fellow dubls his fistt, and cries, "Wha dares meddle wi' me?" When Scott got HIS barnetcy, for instans, did any one of us cry out? No, by the laws, he was our master; and wo betide the chap that said neigh to him! But there's barnets and barnets. Do you recklect that fine chapter in "Squintin Durward," about the too fellos and cups, at the siege of the bishop's castle?
"Okematan will open his eyes if we take back a goose or two like these; why, they are swans almost!" whispered Archie, as the birds approached in the form of an angle. "Take the big fat one on the left the one now squintin' down at the decoys." Billie obeyed, and fired. The result was, in a manner, threefold.
"Verona is a whimsical, wilful girl at times, just as her poor mother was. Keeping up this pretense of friendship for you is one of her silly notions." "Thanks awfully, Ma'am," says I. "Let me see," goes on Aunty, squintin' foxy at me, "you are employed in Mr. Ellins's office, I believe?" I nods. "As office boy, still?" says she.
"She then walked, sir, or rather sailed, down the other side of the street, holdin' up her clothes behind, to show a pair of legs like telescopes, with her head to it's full height, and one eye squintin' to the hotel, like a crow lookin' into a marrow bone." "Well," said his master, "but I don't see the object of all this."
He'll sit there squintin' solemn at the water as if he was sayin' his prayers, then all of a sudden he'll make a jab with that face extension of his, and when he pulls it out and tosses it up you can bet your last jitney he's added something substantial to the larder. One gulp and it's all over. I watched one old bird tuck away about ten fish in as many minutes.
We may as well hark back here a little, and very briefly sketch the incident. It may serve as a guide to others. The two were standing according to the report of the bo's'n, who witnessed the whole affair "abaft the main shrouds squintin' over the weather gangway." We are not quite sure of the exact words used by that discreditable bo's'n, but these are something like them.
Not a rosy-cheeked widow like you, Mrs. Hartopp. 'Indeed, your honour, I never heard of her squintin', an' they said as she might ha' been married o'er and o'er again, to people as had no call to hanker after her money. 'Ay, ay, that's what you all think. Every man that looks at you wants to marry you, and would like you the better the more children you have and the less money.
T'other dish opposite. There; now we look compact and comfortable, as the father said ven he cut his little boy's head off, to cure him o' squintin'. As Mr. Weller made the comparison, he fell back a step or two, to give full effect to it, and surveyed the preparations with the utmost satisfaction. 'Wardle, said Mr.
He thumps me fore 'an' aft, firing a volley of questions, lookin' up the roof of m' mouth, and squintin' at m' finger nails an' teeth like I was a prize horse for sale. Then he sits still, lookin' at me for about half a minute, till I begin t' feel uncomfortable. Then he says, slow: 'Young man, how old are you? "'O, twenty-eight or so, I says, airy. "'My Gawd! said he.
"I don't see it oh yes no. It's only a cloud. Who ever heard of the port-bow of a raft? Bah! your eyes have been squintin'. Not a bit of it, I see it low lyin'; why, I see the palms and I see the nuts ah, and the monkeys, no doubt a-eatin' of 'em hip, hip, hurrah!" Such were some of the exclamations, ending in a long, deep-toned, British cheer, with which the discovery of land was greeted.
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