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"Sheepshanks 'nmanageable; can't carry his liquor like a gentleman: thought it funny 'pitch out ballast. Byfield lost his temper: worst thing in the world. One thing I pride myself, 'menable to reason. No holding Sheepshanks: Byfield got him down; too late; faint both of us. Sheepshanks wants ring for 'shistance: pulls string: breaks. When string breaks Lunardi won't fall tha's the devil of it."
When not occupied in working off his vindictive spleen upon poor Blackfoot, whose hind quarters he gashed at every opportunity, Bill concentrated all his notable energies upon stirring up disorder, indiscipline, confusion, and strife among his mates. Jean flogged Bill pretty severely; and in the interval he said: "Tha's all right, Bill. Jan 'll lick all thees outer you, bimeby."
"Home is something. Though never so 'umble, ye know, there's no place like home." "Tha's all right," assented the other gaily. "I know a man name' Albert Smith, an' 'e sing that in the jail at Beira. Sing all the night till I stop 'im with a broom. Yais." Mills grunted, and they entered the skoff kia the largest of the huts, sacred to the uses of a dining-room.
Not for weeks and weeks had the old lady felt such ease of mind on the money and bread question. Now the two set about to get the booty well hid before Charlie should awake. This required the box to be emptied, set in place and reladen, during which process Flora spoke only when stung. "Ah!" thinly piped she of the mosquito voice, "what a fine day tha's been, to-day!" but won no reply.
He winked to the men, all round; and then added, to Lydia: "Sorry see you in this state I mean, sorry see me Can't make it that way either; up stump on both routes. What I mean is, sorry hadn't coffee first. But you're all right all right! Like see anybody offer you disrespec', 'n I'm around. Tha's all."
"It tastes nice today," said Mary, feeling a little surprised her self. "It's th' air of th' moor that's givin' thee stomach for tha' victuals," answered Martha. "It's lucky for thee that tha's got victuals as well as appetite. There's been twelve in our cottage as had th' stomach an' nothin' to put in it.
"'S what she said before," grunted Breede. "Tha's nothing new." "And she says we're snoop-cats and we might as well go back home now," continued the Demon. "Says she's got the u-u-m-mm! says to perfectly quit tagging." "Nothing can matter now," said the bereaved mother. "He's talking himself," said the Demon. "Mercy he's got a new voice ... sounds like another man.
"Oh, you mentioned it to Louise, did you?" says I. "I expect that was the lovely lady who carted you off in the taxi?" He nods and springs another one of them silly smiles. "Tha's ri'," says he. "The lovely Louishe." "Tell me, Ernie," says I, "how long has this been going on?" And what do you suppose this fathead has the front to spring on me? That this was the first time he'd ever seen her.
"Tha' can put up with me for a bit sometimes when tha's got no one better. Tha's been reddinin' up thy waistcoat an' polishin' thy feathers this two weeks. I know what tha's up to. Tha's courtin' some bold young madam somewhere, tellin' thy lies to her about bein' th' finest cock robin on Missel Moor an' ready to fight all th' rest of 'em." "Oh! look at him!" exclaimed Mary.
Browning ridin' along quiet an' peaceable, figurin' out how he could improve us Rio Blanco savages, an' you come rip-rarin' along an' jar up all his geography by startin' that fool horse of his'n." Dud hung his head. "Tha's right. It was sure enough thoughtless of me," he murmured. The preacher looked at the offender severely. He did not yet feel quite equal to a fitting reprimand.
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