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Den de jedge he tried ter set down on me an' tole me ter stop, but I wuz dat mad dat when I got a-gwine dar warn't no stoppin' me till de sheriff he jes grabbed me by de scruff o' de neck, an' sot me down jest ennyway all in a heap, yer know. Den de jedge passed sentence, yer know, an' he sed dat he gib me one year fer de stealin' an' one year fer sassin' de Court.
"That's all your blindness," said the captain, as they mentioned it to him. "You can't see anything but the water, an as it is movin with us, it doesn't seem as though we were movin. But we air, notwithstandin, an pooty quick too. I'll take two hours' drift before stoppin, so as to make sure.
"A man risin' sixty-five, with his habits! . . . But it all came about by the County Council's widenin' the road up at Four Turnin's. . . . You see, o' late years th' old man 'd ride home on Saturdays so full he had to drop off somewhere 'pon the road; an' his mare gettin' to find this out, as dumb animals do, had picked up a comfortable way of canterin' hard by Four Turnin's and stoppin' short, slap in the middle of her stride, close by th' hedge, so 's her master 'd roll over it into the plantation there, where the ditch is full of oak-leaves.
"Thunder! what's that purty thing a-hangin' out in front of that 'ere stoppin' place? Look Melindy." "Why you goosey, that is the Royal Hotel light the electric light." Melindy pronounced the three words with an air of pride, which indeed seemed to say "please bear in mind that I am no ignoramus."
Ye maun take the risk and travel by Muirtown without ony creedentials. 'It can't be a very big risk, I interpolated. 'I'm no so sure. Gresson's left the Tobermory. He went by here yesterday, on the Mallaig boat, and there was a wee blackavised man with him that got out at the Kyle. He's there still, stoppin' at the hotel. They ca' him Linklater and he travels in whisky.
He was just talkin'. Seems like he'd been war correspondent in the Boer war, and the Spanish-American, an' Gawd knows where. Well, every time he showed signs of stoppin', one of the boys would up with a question, and start him goin' again. He knew everybody, an' everything, an' everywhere.
I says to meself: 'Is that a pig-funny place for a pig to get to! an' I goes up to et, an' I see what 'twas." The old man stopped; his eyes, turned upward, had a bright, suffering look. "'Twas the maid, in a little narrer pool ther' that's made by the stoppin' of a rock where I see the young gentleman bathin' once or twice. 'Er was lyin' on 'er face in the watter.
They're stoppin' to collect that other fellow's scalp." At a glance Morse had seen the situation. This was none of his affair. It was tacitly understood that the traders should not interfere in the intertribal quarrels of the natives.
But 'twas to be, I s'pose. The Lord's ways be past findin' out." He woke up and struck the donkey across the rump. "Gwan you! Gee up! What d'ee mean by stoppin' like that?" The Chief Engineer of the Trinity House was a man of few words. He and Taffy had spent the afternoon clambering about the rocks below the light-house, peering into its foundations.
I was stoppin' Sandy from tryin' to git ye an' when I pushed 'im back, he kicked his own gun an' got a bullet in his big, fat leg, that air all." "It was awful," cried Tess, wiping away her tears. A slight smile played around Jake's lips, and showed a few of his dark teeth.
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