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"You'll 'ear my idea soon enough. Wyte till I pour some cham on my 'ot coppers." He drank a glass off, and affected to listen. "'Ark!" said he, "'ear it fizz. Like 'am frying, I declyre. 'Ave a glass, do, and look sociable." "No!" said the captain, with emphasis; "no, I will not! there's business." "You p'ys your money and you tykes your choice, my little man," returned Huish.
Now, wot you want to do is this: always 'ave an extra shirt in yer pack. Don't be a bloomin' ass an' sell it fer a packet o' fags like I did! An' the next time you writes to England, get some one to send you out some Keatings" he displayed a box of grayish-colored powder. "It won't kill 'em, mind you! They ain't nothin' but fire that'll kill 'em. But Keatings tykes all the ginger out o' 'em.
On the journeys from town to town on the way to Geneva he held out better than any of his comrades, stepping along with no impedimenta but his Hebrew Bible which he had slung at his side the same Bible which he afterwards 'clanked' down on the board before the King and Council in Edinburgh, the freshest of the company when the day's journey was ended, so that he 'wad out and sight' the towns and villages whithersoever they came while the others lay down 'lyk tired tykes. On reaching Geneva he and one of his fellow-travellers, who was a Frenchman, presented themselves at the gates together, when they were challenged by the guard.
'You don't see any green in my eye! I ain't afryde of Attwater, I ain't afryde of you, and I ain't afryde of words. You want to kill people, that's wot YOU want; but you want to do it in kid gloves, and it can't be done that w'y. Murder ain't genteel, it ain't easy, it ain't safe, and it tykes a man to do it. 'Ere's the man.
Morton, "before the worst of the blizzard. They've got money; the silly little tykes! When they have spent it all, they'll be glad to come back." "Celia will, maybe," sobbed Mrs. Morton, brokenly. "She ain't got the determination of our Sallie. She'd starve rather than give in she was beat. We was too ha'sh with her, Paw. I feel we was too ha'sh!
Captain Jenks hastily tied his boat to the wooden post and jumped ashore. "You're all right now, child," he told the girl, patting her kindly on the shoulder. "Look at all the crew who offered to come help me rescue you. And who are these small tykes?" The two little boys came closer to Letty. "They're my cousins," explained Letty, drying her eyes.
"Is the coffee hot?" "I ain't never 'ad a meal like that, y'r gryce, not never any time," the boy answered, with a new sort of fire in his eyes. "Was there enough?" "I've left some," answered his guest, looking at the jar of marmalade and half a slice of toast. "I likes the coffee hot tykes y'r longer to drink it," he added. Ian Stafford chuckled. He was getting more than the worth of his money.
Any woman what had a baby 'bout my age would wet nurse me, so I growed up in de quarters an' was as well an' as happy as any other chil'. "Us little tykes would gather black walnuts in de woods an' store 'em under de cabins to dry. "At night when de work was all done an' de can'les was out us'd set 'roun' de fire an' eat cracked nuts an' taters.
In the interest of the story no man had noticed that his dog had risen from his side; no one had noticed a file of shaggy figures creeping out of the room. "I tell ye it's the tykes! I tell ye it's the tykes! They're on ma Wullie fifty to one they're on him! My God! My God! And me not there! Wullie, Wullie! " in a scream "I'm wi' ye!" At the same moment Bessie Boistock rushed in, white-faced.
"Well, he left me pretty well provided for," returned the late Spencer's widow comfortably, "an' I won't say as 'e wur an out-an-out bad 'usband. But somehow I can't abide South-country folk." "They say we Yorkshire tykes are a rough lot," said Herrick, smiling, and she took up the challenge at once.
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