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I would like to see you." "All right," said Bertha, "I'll send you a line." And her frank smile made him sorry to say good-bye even for the day. As Mart was going up the elevator he sighed and said: "It takes all kinds of people to make up a world Mr. Hummockstone is wan of the t'others. He has a grouch agin the universe. Sure but he's been housin' a gnawin' serpent. How 'twill all end I dunno."
What's the matter?" cried Gordon looking up sharply, as one of his two neighbours came to the door with his wife. "Well, I doan't know," said the settler. "My wife says she is sure she saw a savage creeping along through the bush behind our place." "There!" said Don excitedly. "Here's t'others coming," said Jem.
"The lee side's blowing adrift," said the 'prentice. "And he says that the chap who made it fast is to go up and see to it as soon as the watch is relieved." "Oh! does 'e? Well 'twasn't me, any'ow," replied the man. "You'd better arsk sum of t'others." "Ask what?" inquired Plummer, getting out of his bunk, sleepily. The 'prentice repeated his message. The man yawned and stretched himself.
The genius of him who said, in our journey to the other world the common road is the safest, was cowardly as deceptive, and therefore opposed to sound philosophy. Like horses yoked to a team, 'one's nose in t'others tail, is a mode of journeying anywhere the opposite of dignified, pleasant, or improving.
I went to the bar, as though I had gone for the cards, and returned with them. Old Jack laughed when he saw them, saying: "Wall, I be gol-darned if they haint just like t'others." I gave Jack the new set, but I turned up a corner on the boy card so every one could see it. Then I told him to mix them up, and I would make him a bet of a $1,000. We put up the money; I turned and won.
He'll drink his drop o' liquor an' keep his mouth shut, an' listen to me a-talkin' as a young man should. T'others are allus yelpin' out how fond they be of me, and how they'd go to the world's end for me. I hate the sight of 'em." "A time-servin' crew, Mary; an' Clement Hicks no better 'n the rest, mark my word, though your sister's son. 'T is cupboard love wi' all. But money ban't nothin' to me.
Soon after some one touched him, and he started up to find that all was dark, and that the edge of a dense cloud was silvered by the moon, while a face was bent down close to his. "What's the matter?" he cried, excitedly. "Things is getting wuss, sir. Mr Russell's lying there talking like in his sleep, and t'others have got it bad. You and me's the only two as have any sense left."
"Why then come, Mart'n, clap your eye on my beauties here's guns, Mart'n, six culverins and t'others sakers, and yonder astern two basilisks as shall work ye death and destruction at two or three thousand paces; 'bove deck amidships I've divers goodly pieces as minions, falcons and patereros with murderers mounted aft to sweep the waist.
My predecessor always sold his plums on the trees for the buyer to harvest, and I heard that when the former turned a flock of Dorset ewes into one of these orchards, the buyer complained the lower branches being heavily laden, and within a few feet of the ground that he had watched, "Them old yows holding down bunches of plums with their harns for t'others to eat."
I guess it's worth ary half dozen in these parts, let t'others be where they may. If I could a got supplied with the like o' them, I could a made a grand spec out of them, for they took at once, and went off quick." "Have you got it with you?" said Mr. Allen, "I should like to see it."
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