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Updated: June 11, 2025


He was lolling in the lowest window-sill of the house opposite, and watched Oliver and the little girl looking about them with sundry signs of interest and amusement. "She ain't nowhere in sight," he called across to them after a while, "nor won't be, neither, I'll bet you. You're looking out for the little un's mother, ain't you, old master?"

'I wunt, said John; 'but I'll hit a fellow when un's up. Sir Felix was little more than a child in the man's arms.

Captain January shook his head emphatically, "You're real kind, Cap'n Nazro!" he said; "real kind, you and Mis Nazro both are! and she makin' the little un's frocks and pinafores, as is a great help. But I can't feel to let her out o' my sight, nohow; and as for school, she ain't the kind to bear it, nor yet I couldn't for her. She's learnin'!" he added, proudly. "Learnin' well!

It's about time Prayerful Jones was shut of lettin' loose his bums and lunatics on us folks with property." "No harm," said Vanderzee, soothingly. "I say it is harm! I'm hailed whurever I go about this business of the old un's island, Van! Just 'cause I've got a schooner, it's Jarrow, Jarrow, Jarrow! I'd look fine and smart cruisin' round for a P. D. island, wouldn't I? Now tell me that?"

"Hullo!" says Troke, running to the heap of clothes, "the young 'un's slipped his wind!" Kirkland was dead. "Throw him off!" says Burgess, aghast at the unfortunate accident; and Gabbett reluctantly untied the thongs that bound Rufus Dawes. Two constables were alongside him in an instant, for sometimes newly tortured men grew desperate.

'Hey, lass! said Kester, turning a bit towards her, and shutting one eye to cock the other the better upon her; an operation which puckered up his already wrinkled face into a thousand new lines and folds. 'An' how does thee know how a man woos a wife, that thee talks so knowin' about it? That's tellin'. Some un's been tryin' it on thee.

"Sneaking!" said the Second. "None of your blamed business!" replied the Red Un. The Second, who was really an agreeable person, with a sense of humour, smiled. He rather liked the Red Un. "Do you know, William," he observed William was the Red Un's name "I'd be willing to offer two shillings for an itemised account of what's in that drawer?"

I was a-lookin' at 'em last Thursday, and thinkin' what a pity 'twas you hadn't nobody to cut down for; but this 'ere young un's going to be such a tearer, he'll want somethin' real stout; but I'll try and put it out of my mind till Monday.

Ma'am, pore Joe means well, but 'e can't 'elp bein' a perisher but" and here the Old Un raised and shook a feeble old fist "I've a good mind t' ketch 'im one as would put 'im t' sleep for a fortnight I've a good mind " But Mrs. Trapes caught that tremulous fist and drawing the Old Un's arm through her own, turned to the door.

Three weeks ago John Chinn would have said he did not remember a word of the Bhil tongue, but at the mess door he found his lips moving in sentences that he did not understand bits of old nursery rhymes, and tail-ends of such orders as his father used to give the men. The Colonel watched him come up the steps, and laughed. "Look!" he said to the Major. "No need to ask the young un's breed.

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