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"Look'ee, sir, do'ee see that theer clock?" and he would point with a bony, tremulous finger "stopped it were got sum'mat wrong wi' its inn'ards wouldn't stir a finger dead it were! But that bye Jarge 'e see it 'e did give it a look over 'e did, an' wi' nout but 'is two 'ands set it a-goin' good as ever: You, Silas Madden, you remember as 'e done it wi' 'is two 'ands?" "'Is two 'ands!"
Now there is sum'mat hanging at the lee fore-yard-arm of that chap, that looks as if it might be a top-gallant-stun'sail made up to be sent aloft and set, but which stopped when it got as high as it is, on finding out that there's no hamper over-head to spread it to." "That's it, sir," put in Bunting. "Mr. Daly has run his woman up to the fore-yard-arm, like a pirate."
I replied, assuming, as well as I could, in the exigency of the moment, an air of offended surprise, and talking in the gruffest of all imaginable tones "sir! you are a sum'mat mistaken my name, in the first place, bee'nt nothing at all like Goddin, and I'd want you for to know better, you blackguard, than to call my new obercoat a darty one."
"What, man, did you ever see a heathen with an anchor? one that will weigh three hundred, if it will weigh a pound?" "Perhaps not, your honour, with a downright hanchor, but with sum'mat like a killog. But, that's no hanchor, a'ter all, but only a kedge, catted hanchor-fashion, sir." "Here comes Magrath, to help us out of the difficulty; and we'll propound the matter to him."
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