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Bounder soon discovered that, in "Cobbler" Horn, he had a master of whom it was impossible to approve. Bounder "see'd from the fust as Mr. Horn warn't no gentleman." It was always the way with "them as was made rich all of a suddint like." And Bounder puffed out his red cheeks till they looked like two toy balloons.
He'll get tired av findin' our kit foul an' our 'coutrements onproperly kep'." "We will not let him go," sez they. "Thin take him," sez I, "an' a dashed poor yield you will get for your throuble." "Is he not misconductin' himself wid Slimmy's wife?" sez another. "She's common to the rig'mint," sez I. "Fwhat has made ye this partic'lar on a suddint?"
Hasty footfalls sounded among the dead leaves and died in the distance. When the ranger ventured out he saw the door of his house wide open, and the firelight flickering out among the leafless bushes. His wife met him halfway down the hill. "Air ye hurt, Tobe?" she cried. "Did yer gun go off suddint?" "Mighty suddint," he replied, savagely. "Ye didn't fire it a-purpose?" she faltered.
I can't help thinkin' it was kind o' suddint though, and then she's sich a sickly lookin' critter. Hope yer haven't been taken in, but then, as you say, the marryin' business, like other kinds o' business, is a man's own business." "I hope everyone will take your sensible view, Uncle Jonathan. Good night." At Home
Just as he expected, we stopped so suddint that that big obelisk bounced for'ard, its p'inted end foremost, and went clean through the bow and shot out into the sea. The minute it did that the vessel was so lightened that it rose in the water and we easily steamed over the bank.
An' there they finds um head-first shtuck in th' bog just th' tu feet av um shtickin' out an' which boots Tim sez he can swear tu. 'Begorrah! sez me father, 'that accounts for th' tchune shtoppin' so suddint! Let us luk for th' jug? Well, they hunts around for th' jug awhile, but all they finds is his ould caubeen.
"It do beat me!" he said, slapping one corduroy-trousered leg vehemently "It do beat me altogether it do reely now! I ain't no swearin' sort, an' bad langwidge ain't my failin', but I feel like takin' a bet, or sayin' a swear when I sees a sensible man like, makin' a fool of hisself! If Passon ain't gone looney all on a suddint, blest if I knows wot's come to 'im.
"There ain't anybody to think of," replied Captain Cephas, "unless it might be Eliza Trimmer. She's generally ready enough to do anything that turns up. But she wouldn't be no good her house is too far away for either you or me to hail her in case a croup came up suddint." "That's so," said Captain Eli. "She does live a long way off." "So that settles the whole business," said Captain Cephas.
Suppose I was out on the hill there some fine evenin', and I not thinkin' of anythin' in partic'lar, and all of a suddint I'd see a great, big, ugly, black-lookin' baste of a feller, the size of forty, skytin' away wid himself along the light of the sky over yonder, where the sun was about goin' down, and his shadder the len'th of an awful tall tree slippin' streelin' after him, till it was off over the edge of the world like, and that same 'ud be just the Divil, that they were after bundlin' out of it body and bones, the way he wouldn't get meddlin' and makin' and annoyin' people any more.
"What ailed you-uns ter name me as the corpus, 'Gene Barker?" demanded Walter Wyatt, when he had regained the capacity of coherent speech. "Oh, I hed ter do suddint murder on somebody," declared the driver, all bluff and reassured and red-faced again, "an' I couldn't think quick of nobody else. Besides, I helt a grudge agin' you fer not stuffin' mo' straw 'twixt them jimmyjohns in the coffin-box."
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