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Updated: May 2, 2025
Vell, dey can have deir fun how de hell's a feller like me gonna git time to know about writers? Vy, only twelve years ago, Maw here and me vas carryin' pants in a push-cart fer a livin', and we didn't know if a book vas top-side up or bottom ain't it, Maw?" Maw certified that it was though I thought not quite so eagerly as her husband.
Question I Honorable Pope make much speech of brain, what meaning I know not; Chinese people oldest wisest people in whole world, Chinese people know all learning is put away in stomach. When men know many things all people say, "He have many characters in his stomach." Foreign people say not so, they say all learning put in brain, top-side head.
Ali should know " Rip reached for the inter-com mike. "Engines!" "So you are alive?" Ali's voice had a bite in it. "About time you're contacting. Where are we? Besides being lopsided from a recruit's scrambled set-down, I mean." "In the Big Burn. Come top-side. Wait how's Weeks?" "He has a devil's own headache, but he hasn't blacked out yet. Looks like his immunity holds in part.
And though Hepsey snorted contempt for the advice of a mere male, she found the thought top-side of her mind as she started out next morning to pay Bascom a momentous call. After all, Jonathan had but echoed her own consistent philosophy of life. But with her usual shrewdness she decided to go armed with both kinds of ammunition. Mrs.
He say, 'God damn thief! catchee flowty dollar: come to jailee. Me no takee back. You leavee money top-side blulow, Fiddletown. Me fetchee money you. Me no takee back." Mrs. Tretherick hesitated. In the confusion of her flight, she MIGHT have left the money in the manner he had said. In any event, she had no right to jeopardize this honest Chinaman's safety by refusing it.
Sin Sin Wa, crooning his strange song, came in carrying a coil of rope and a Mauser pistol! "P'licemanee gotchee catchee sleepee," he murmured, "or maybe he catchee die!" He tossed the rope to his wife, who stood silent tapping the floor with one slim restless foot. "Number one top-side tie up," he crooned. "Sin Sin Wa watchee withum gun!"
The captain's Chinese boy glided up unobserved and stood at attention. "Captain say missy please come top-side right away. Wantchee see Bird Island." Percival, still holding her hand, smilingly shook his head. "Damn Bird Island!" he murmured softly. Of all the places in the world where a flirtation can germinate, blossom, and bear fruit overnight, an ocean-liner is the most propitious.
Where our other Boats, where our most dear Miss Sterling? We look up river and down, some boats top-side, some bottomside, two boats on rocks, like our own poor broken one. Now night comes swiftly, all grows dark and we more and more afraid, every one say "Now we die!" "Now we die!" I alone think not so, but very sorrowful and cry in my heart, but not with my lips.
It was perhaps two hours before midnight when the long spell of firing along the water-front began and I knew that my eyes and the dark had not deceived me. All the search-lights suddenly swept together to one point and shone on the top-side of a submarine or at least on the water thrown up by its top-side.
With an air of having suddenly abandoned all prudence, all caution, Bill flung out his arms. "Say, Miss Seton," he said, in a sort of desperation, "I'm troubled troubled to death. I can't tell the top-side from the bottom-side of anything, it seems to me. There's things I can't understand hereabouts, a sort of mystery that gets me by the neck and nearly chokes me. Maybe you can help me.
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