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Say, she's a good sort, Joey; bully fun, and always in for anything. You ought to see her shoot! Yes, Sir! Bring down quail with a choke-bore, or knock over a buck deer with a rifle. Plays billiards like a wizard, Joey does, and can swat a golf ball off the tee for two hundred yards. She's a star. Staying at Ferdie's, eh? Must be a great combination, she and Sukey. I'd like to see 'em together.
Should they meet with one of those sudden calms which frequently overtook vessels off the bay, they knew they would be lost. The British marines were laying to their oars right lustily, and the boat flew over the waves. "Have you no arms in the boat?" asked Fernando. "Nothin' but a fowlin' piece and some goose shot." "Just the thing for me!" declared Sukey.
Sukey did not fire as often as some of the others, but at every shot he went up to the breastwork, looked over until he could see a redcoat, and then taking aim blazed away. After each shot he paused to write in his book. Lieutenant Ashby, who had had a brother killed at the River Raisin, seemed frantic with rage and fiendish glee.
Poor Sukey for several days was fearfully seasick; but he recovered and was assigned to his mess. Fortunately they were all three assigned to the same mess. The common seamen of the Macedonian were divided into thirty-seven messes, put down on the purser's book as Mess No. 1, Mess No. 2, Mess No. 3.
She praised Baltimore for its beauty and health, its picturesqueness and poetry. It was surely destined to be the greatest city in the United States. When they were alone, Sukey pointed to the mud heaps and duck pools and gravely asked: "Do they show the poetry and picturesk of which she speaks? Is that old chaise a sign of health or prosperity?"
Teachum, taking Miss Sukey Jennet by the hand, said, 'Come, my dear, throw off all fear and reserve; imagine me one of your companions, and tell me the story of the play you have been reading.
Dic did not mention these small matters, and, in fact, had forgotten what Sukey had said, not caring a baw-bee how often she had gone to meet him or any one else, and having no intention to accept her hospitality Christmas night.
I am quite certain that I can spare you my old black silk, which you know, Sukey, has been turned four times." "Thank you, ma'am," said Sukey, in her downright voice. "And what news is there from Miss Florence, please, ma'am?" "Oh, there is a letter. I have just had time to read it.
"Jehosophat Moses and Aaron's rod, my boy! do you see her?" gasped Sukey. "Yes." "Ain't she pretty?" "Hush! she may hear you." "Well, if she'd get mad at that, she is different from most girls." "Her father might not think it much of a compliment."
This is exciting; I wonder what sort of taste Aunt Susan's dressmaker has." "Exquisite, you may be sure, dear. There, there, I am all trembling to see the things, and Sukey must have a peep, mustn't she, Flo?" "If I acted as I ought," said Florence, "I would take this box just as it stands unopened to Cherry Court School to-morrow."
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