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I were thrown up in t' air like a shuttlecock, me an' my line an' my harpoon up we goes, an' many a good piece o' timber wi' us, an' many a good fellow too; but a had t' look after mysel', an a were up high i' t' air, afore I could say Jack Robinson, an' a thowt a were safe for another dive int' saut water; but i'stead a comes down plump on t' back o' t' whale.
All your people too?" "Yes, squire, all safe here; but we're uneasy like about Dave o' the 'Coy and John Warren." "But they've got the boat," cried Dick. "Yes; I hope they're safe," said the squire. "Hickathrift, my lad, that was a brave thought of yours to light that fire. It saved our lives." "Nay, squire," said the big fellow; "it was no thowt o' mine it was thy missus put it into my yead."
Duney, finding his own voice at the sound of his companion's. "I thowt 'ow 'twas agreed 'tween us I wor to tell the gentleman, bor?" growled the pirate king, turning a pair of dusky eyes on his companion. "Yow allus have a way o' overdoin' things, you know, Dick." "Right, bor, right," replied Mr. Duney. "Yow oughter know I only wanted to help yow out, Billy."
'Well, mum, I says, 'I never thowt to coom down to dog-steealin', but if my comrade sees how it could be done to oblige a laady like yo'sen, I'm nut t' man to hod back, tho' it's a bad business I'm thinkin', an' three hundred rupees is a poor set-off again t' chance of them Damning Islands as Mulvaney talks on. 'I'll mek it three fifty, says Mrs. DeSussa; 'only let me hev t'dog!
Mary stole a look at Jacob, and he heaved a tremendous sigh, something between a yawn and a groan. "Meary," he said, "I must go." "I knew that afore," returned the girl. "I had zummat to zay to you, Meary. Do you think you will miss oie?" "What put that into your head, Jacob?" This was said very demurely. "Oie thowt, may be, Meary, that your feelings might be zummat loike my own.
Shall I go and catch her?" "Yes," said Dick, grinning. "Shall I say, `Sh!" "Nay, if thou'rt going to play tricks, lad, I shall howd my hand. I thowt yow wanted to see me ketch a hare." "Go on, then," said Dick, laughing; "we won't move."
Here we are in this wild country without house or home, and wi' nothin' to eat. I allus thowt tha wor a fool, Samiul, and now I'm sure and sartin on it." Samiul could not deny it. His spirit was completely broken; he hung down his head, and tears began to trickle down his eyes.
I thowt then 'at them old nursery songs wur th' happiest music I ever heard, an' when 'Sanna sung 'em they minded me o' hymn-tunes. "Well, Mester, before th' spring wur out Wee Wat was toddlin' round holdin' to his mother's gown, an' by th' middle o' th' next he was cooin' like a dove, an' prattlin' words i' a voice like hers.
We walked a little farther, and he said: 'Mas'r Davy, shall you see her, d'ye think? 'It would be too painful to her, perhaps, said I. 'I have thowt of that, he replied. 'So 'twould, sir, so 'twould.
The old man kept his eyes fixed on a distant reach of the river, and moved no muscle of his face. "I guess it's Christ," he said at last. "Ah niver 'eerd tell on 'im," the collier answered slowly. "Hast 'niver 'eerd tell on Christ?" the old man asked in measured machine-like tones. "I thowt ivery one know'd on 'im. Why, what religion are you?"
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