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You doddering old tarrapin, you only own one-third of it and that ain't yours, by rights. How much do you claim, I say?" "W'y I only claim one third," responded Dusty weakly, "but Whiskers, he claims that I'm entitled to a half " "A half!" raged Wunpost, starting back towards the saloon. "I'll show the old billygoat what he owns!"
I was plumb feverish, and needed a dip. Well, I'm no water-dog, Dave; I can't swim no better than a tarrapin with its legs cut off, but I sloshed around some in the surf, and then I took a walk to dreen off and see the sights. It was right interesting when I got so I could tell the women from the men you see I'd left my glasses in the bath-house.
"And dear old Princess Anne, how does she fare?" he had again turned to the Judge "how is the little river Wicomico no, I mean Manokin how does it flow? Does it flow benevolently? Does it abound in the best oysters I ever tasted? in tarrapin, too? How is she now? Goy!" "Are you on your way north, Brother Custis, or going home?" the keen, black-eyed Chief-justice asked. "No, my journey is ended.
"'Well, mother, says I, 'put on your bilin' water an' we'll see if dead tarrapin is fit fur to eat! She smiled through her cryin', and put the water on, an' when it began to bubble in the pot, I lifted up one of them tarrapins an' dropped him in the bilin' water, an' Jack, I'll be dog-goned if them other three tarrapins didn't run right off the table an' drop on to the flo' an' skeet for that cellar door!
His wife war de nicest and sweetest lady dat eber I did see. None ob yer airish, stuck up folks, like a tarrapin carryin' eberything on its back. She used ter hab meetins fer de mudders, an' larn us how to raise our chillen, an' talk so putty to de chillen. I sartinly did lub dat woman." "Where is she now?" asked Robert. "De Conference moved dem 'bout thirty miles from yere.
She knew she was somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Virgin, had caught the roar of it, and was, therefore, asking her way. This is a small part of what she heard from the dancing dories: "The Virgin? Fwhat are you talkin' of? 'This is Le Have on a Sunday mornin'. Go home an' sober up." "Go home, ye tarrapin! Go home an' tell 'em we're comin'."
When I begin with a kinchin cove I starts squar. If ye think it's wicked to ketch tarrapin, why, I want 'em caught. If you don't keer, you kin jest stick up yer sail an' pint for Deil's Island, an' we'll make it a woyige!"
"I caught 'em an' biled 'em, an' as we sat there eatin' stewed tarrapin without no salt, or sherry wine, or coffee, or even corn-bread, we heard somethin' like paper scratchin' on the window, an' mother fell back and clasped her hands, an' said, 'There, do you hear the ghost?
'What's that fable about the jack rabbit and the land tarrapin? He didn't know and I didn't either, so I said to illustrate the point: 'Put your freight on a bull train, and it always goes through on time. A race horse can't beat an ox on a hundred miles and repeat to a freight wagon. Well, we unloaded before night, and it was pitch dark before we made camp. I explained the situation to the men.
"He's got the ager," remarked Levin Dennis, "them's the shakes, comin' on him by to-morrey, ef I know tarrapin bubbles!" The latter end only of the nearest approach to profanity current in that land was again heard, fluttering around: "to save my life!"
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