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Spilsby took no notice of this, but, seeing some people coming round the corner, commenced to sing out his praises of the specials. 'Ere yer are all 'ot an' steamin', he cried, in a kind of loud bleat, which added still more to his sheep-like appearance: 'Spilsby's Specials oh, lovely ain't they nice; my eye, fine muttin pies; who ses Spilsby's; 'ave one, miss? to Kitty.
"Well, then," he continued, "you know Greek Jimmy's and that's where I'd been." I did not know Greek Jimmy's, but I thought it unnecessary to mention the fact. "It was just about this time on a steamin' 'ot night as I come out of Jimmy's and started for the ship.
But I'd untangled those nine cars and got 'em movin' toward the North River, and now I was steamin' through a lot of office detail that had piled up while I was gone.
As I says to Sammy, it's a poor stummick won't warm its own bit, but all the same, there's times when somethin' steamin' does your heart as much good as it does your stummick, which, the two o' them bein' such near neighbors, no wonder we get 'em mixed up sometimes, an' think the one is starved when it's only the other." It proved altogether easier for Martha, now Francie was at home again.
"Everything looks just 'bout alike 'long yere," and I took a squint at the bank, as though endeavoring a guess. "I reckon maybe it'll be 'bout twenty-four hours' steamin' yet morn'n thet, likely, if we got ter tie up much 'long shore. Are yer goin' fer ter jine the army?" "Whut, me jine the army?" he laughed as though at a good joke.
Ain't she done come in fer her breckfus yit? It's nine o'clock and Sis Cynthia's a-stewin' an' a steamin' like her own taters." "She say she wait fer her aunt, an' her aunt say she cyant breckfus befo' half-pas' nine, no how," answered Jerome. "Huh, huh! An' ma chile gotter wait a hull hour pas' her breckfus time jist kase Madam Fussa-ma-fiddle ain't choose fer ter git up?
"Insides is all right we need 'em in our business. But what'd your steel tank do, with the engines goin', if she wasn't bein' navigated? Steamin' in circles, like a tinklin' merry-go-round!" It was some seconds after this that the Purser, a well-intentioned but interfering gentleman with a beard, received the kick that put him in dry dock for two days.
"I dinnaw whether Gin'ral Miles picked out th' job or whether 'twas picked out f'r him. But, annyhow, whin he got to Sandago de Cubia an' looked ar-round him, he says to his frind Gin'ral Shafter, 'Gin'ral, says he, 'ye have done well so far, he says. ''Tis not f'r me to take th' lorls fr'm th' steamin' brow iv a thrue hero, he says.
"The great point was to steer clear of the big British steamer, Devastation. Pluck said he seed her steamin' away down to the northward t'other a'ternoon, and so it was agreed that Pluck, with the Pinkey Spunk, should run down in her track. If he sighted her in the morning he was just to play her about some, until Split got the mackerel on board.
"He sutny some warm," said Shanghai critically. "He steamin' like a kettle!" "Whut if he is?" asked Mose. "We kin fix that all hunky-dory, an' Johnson, he won't neveh know." "How can we fix it?" "Got to let that sweat dry first," warned Shanghai. "And then wipe it off," said Mose. "It comes off easy when it's dry," supplemented Shanghai as he started down the road with the other horse.
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