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"True, me frund," returned the stranger, "it is ver' leetil ve gits; but den dat leetil is ver' goot valooable you calls it." "Humph!" ejaculated Bevan, with an air that betokened doubt. Flinders and Fred said nothing, but the latter felt more than ever inclined to believe that their guest was a deceiver, and resolved to watch him narrowly.
"And as I said before, I should like now to make a correction in the columns of your valooable paper." "What correction!" asked the editor. "I said, ef you remember my words, as how he was a borned poet." "Yes." "From statements in this yer letter it seems as how I war wrong." "Well!" "She war a woman." It was the Christmas season in California, a season of falling rain and springing grasses.
"That's so," stammered the official of the Crossing, seeing his last chance of knowing the contents of the parcel vanish; "but I thought ez it's a valooable package, maybe ye might want to examine it to see that it was all right afore ye receipted for it." "I'll risk it," said Flip, coolly, "and if it ain't right I'll let ye know."
But it's more'n likely that this here most gorg-y-us one will, on occasions, shelter, warm, purtect an' otherwise care fur the deservin' body o' one Solomon Hyde, a highly valooable citizen o' the new country they call Kentucky. An' say, Henry, what do you call this?" His voice took a rapidly rising inflection, as he held up a glittering garment, puffed with magnificent lace.
"You'd better look out for pickpockets, my lad," said the conductor, pleasantly. "That big wallet of yours might prove a great temptation." "That's so," said Dick. "That's the misfortin' of being rich. Astor and me don't sleep much for fear of burglars breakin' in and robbin' us of our valooable treasures. Sometimes I think I'll give all my money to an Orphan Asylum, and take it out in board.
Dick therefore found no difficulty in obtaining his money, though the fact that the check was made payable to him created some surprise. "Your salary seems to be a large one," said the teller, as he handed our hero ten bills of a hundred dollars each. "Yes," said Dick, "my services are very valooable." On leaving the bank, Dick went to the savings bank, and presented his book.
There have even been some audacious heretics who have preferred Cicero's letters to his speeches and treatises; Seneca, the least attractive of those before mentioned, put well what the poet Wordsworth called in his own poems "extremely valooable thoughts"; one of the keenest of mathematicians and best of academic and general business men known to the present writer, the late Professor Chrystal of Edinburgh, made a special favourite of Pliny; and if people can find nothing worse to say against Sidonius than that he wrote in contemporary, and not in what was for his time archaic, Latin, his case will not look bad in the eyes of sensible men.
"Don't disturb the valooable papers," said Dick, in a tone of pretended anxiety. The contents of the wallet excited some amusement among the passengers. "There don't seem to be much money here," said the conductor, taking out a roll of tissue paper cut out in the shape of bills, and rolled up. "No," said Dick. "Didn't I tell you them were papers of no valoo to anybody but the owner?
"Is that yours, ma'am?" asked the conductor, holding up the wallet which excited some amazement, by its size, among the other passengers. "It seems to me you carry a large pocket-book for a young man of your age," said the conductor. "That's what I carry my cash and valooable papers in," said Dick. "I suppose that isn't yours, ma'am," said the conductor, turning to the lady.
The contents is so valooable that most likely the loss has made him sick, and he'll be likely to come down liberal to the honest finder." "You gave me a bogus bill," said the man. "It's what I use myself," said Dick. "You've swindled me." "I thought it was the other way." "None of your nonsense," said the man angrily. "If you don't give up that pocket-book, I'll call a policeman."
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