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"Bless my heart, Capua!" cried Mr. Raleigh, removing the stem from his lips; "how came you here?" "Lors, Massa, it's only me," said Capua. "So I see," replied his master, restoring the pipe to its former position. "How did you come?" "'Bout swimmed, I 'spect," answered Capua, grounding a chuckle on a reef of ivory. "'Ta'n't no fish-story, dat!" "Well, what brings you?"
"Why, I'd ha' swimmed to him," growled Dave, "if his place had been afire." "No you wouldn't, Dave. You couldn't when it's frozen. I say, couldn't we put anything out?" "Nay, lads. It must bon right away, and then there'll be a clear place to build again." "But," cried Dick, "a bucket or two, and we could do a good deal." "Boocket's bont," said Dave sadly, "and everything else.
Has ze signore seen ze cedar of Lebanon in ze garden of ze prince? 'Yes, Gustavo, the signore has seen the cedar of Lebanon in the garden of the prince, also the ilex tree two hundred years old and the india-rubber plant from South America. They are extremely beautiful, but they don't last a week. 'Have you swimmed in ze lake? 'It is lukewarm, Gustavo. The waiter's eyes roved anxiously.
Then the saint up and done a marvelous straange thing, for he flinged them feesh back in the well, just as they was, and began praayin' to the Lard to forgive his man. An' the feesh comed alive ag'in and swimmed around, though Barius had cleaned 'em, I s'pose, an' took the guts out of 'em an' everything. Then the chap just catched wan feesh proper, an' St. Neot ate en, an' grawed well by sundown.
"By-and-by a king-snake swimmed over to our island, and tuck up his abode in a hole in a log. The cuss got kind of affectionate, and after a while crawled right into our hut to catch flies and other varmin. At last he got so tame he'd let me scratch his back. Then he tuck to our moss bed, and used up a considerable portion of his time there.
Nay, not they. Plenty o' room for em up in the runs where the watter won't come." "But the foxes, and hares, and things?" cried Dick. "Them as has got wings is flied awayer," growled the second man; "them as has got paddles is swimmed; and them as can't find the dry patches is gone down."
When she was entered into the house and had shut the door upon herself, all the dogs came running of half a league round, and did so well bepiss the gate of her house that there they made a stream with their urine wherein a duck might have very well swimmed, and it is the same current that now runs at St.
Glover's eyes swimmed with tears all the time he was reading the letter. When he had finished it, "This man," said he, "may indeed be justly called a good husband, a tender father, and an honest man. There is an expressive pleasure in being a friend to such characters as these. I will pay John's debts, and enable him to set up his trade again.
Only his small unfreckled nose showed, drawing in the rain-washed breeze that came swirling upon his bed through the open window. "It's my beach!" he told Cis proudly the next morning. "I waded honest, I did! And I pretty near swimmed!" He felt stronger, and consequently did not hate his housework so much. As for his appearance, Mr.
"So says I, sir; but it's disappynting, for I arn't found no corpses, on'y you young gents all as live-ho as fish; and what's to come o' my rewards?" "Oh, bother the rewards, Tom! How did you get in?" "Dove, sir, and swimmed on my back with my flippers going like one o' the seals I've seen come in here." "But we tried to do that, both of us, and we couldn't do it." "Dessay not, sir.
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