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"So much for thicky!" exclaimed Bascomb, relapsing into broad Devon for a moment, under the influence of excitement. "If it weren't that we have a long and hot morning's work before us I would anchor the ship, land a party, and blow their footy batteries into the air. But perhaps we may have time to do that when we come back this way.
Tom, he says, to my Tom, 'if you look as close as I do, he says, 'you'll see what I see. And young Tom looks up at him, as a dog might, kind of faithful, and he says, 'I 'low I will, sir, please, sir. I says to him, 'Can a man be taught the like o' that? 'No, says he, 'but a boy can. 'What more could thicky boy learn? I says, and he says, 'To understand his betters, and get great words, and do without a sight of things for the more you do without, he says, 'the more you have to deal with. 'Such things as what, now, would he do without? I wants to know.
And presently a man came running down the beach from the battery, bearing a message from Basset to George to the effect that the former had succeeded in taking the garrison completely by surprise and capturing them and the battery practically without striking a single blow "and Mester Basset he du zay, zur, that if you'll give un half an hour he'll make thicky battery so's he can hold mun again' all comers."
"That's not the talk as'll make Newtake pay, Will. You 'm worse than poor Blee to Monks Barton. He's gwaine round givin' out theer ban't no God 't all, 'cause Mrs. Coomstock took auld Lezzard 'stead of him." "You may laugh if you like, mother. 'Tis the fashion to laugh at me seemin'ly. But I doan't care. Awnly you'll be sorry some day, so sure as you sit in thicky chair.
"Cap'n," he said, "while you've been busy wi' Barker, there, about the ordnance, I've been starin' at the town through thicky glass o' yours, and the thought have comed to me that if we're goin' to be obliged to bombard, we're anchored in the wrong place. We ought to be lyin' somewhere over there, a bit more to the east'ard, and a li'l bit closer inshore.
"Ay, ay; I've been havin' a crack wi' old Cap'n Burroughs, since mun comed whoam, and he've a been tellin' me all about ye. Garge, I'm proud of 'e, boy and so be madam here, too, I'll be boun' for 'twas I that made a sailor of 'e by givin' of 'e thicky toy bwoat, a matter o' twelve or vourteen year agone 'tis now. My goodness me! how time du vly, to be sure.
"Surely they cannot seriously intend to try to stop us?" "If they don't, why are they laying their canoes across our hawse like thicky?" demanded Dick. "Hadn't you better speak to them a bit, Phil?" "Ay, I'll try," answered Stukely. And, stepping into the bows of the canoe, he ostentatiously laid down his weapons and made the usual signs of amity.
An' us not met since our marriage-day. But you'm cruel, cruel to poor faither." "Say so, an' think so; an' b'lieve all they tell 'e 'gainst your lawful husband; an' gude-bye. If you'm so poor-spirited as to see your man do thicky work, you choosed wrong. Not that 'tis any gert odds. Stop along wi' your faither as you loves so much better 'n me.
"Rap to the door quick, dear heart," said Phoebe, "or I'll be cryin' again." "No more rappin' after thicky butivul letter," answered Will. "Us'll gaw straight in." "You walk fust, Phoebe 'tis right you should," declared Mrs. Blanchard. "Then Will can follow 'e; an' me an' Chris us'll walk 'bout for a bit, till you beckons from window." "Cheer up, Phoebe," cried Will.
"Hold thy clack, father, an' tie thicky knot, so's it won't slip." "Shan't. I've a-took boundless pains wi' thee, my son, from thy birth up: hours I've a-spent curin' thy propensities wi' the strap ay, hours. D'ee think I raised 'ee up so carefully to chuck thyself away 'pon a come-by-chance furriner? No, I didn'; an' I'll see thee jiggered afore I ties 'ee up. Pa'son Babbage "
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