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"I've seen the lifeboat we have here, you know, but I never heard of the Institootion." "Well, well, Susan, I needn't be surprised, for, to say truth, there's many in this country, who think no small beer o' theirselves, that know precious little about either the one or the other, although they're the most valooable Institootions in the country.
"If she don't move in a few minutes, I'll try what heaving out some o' the cargo will do. As supercargo, you know where it's all stowed, so, if you'll pint out to me which is the least valooable, an' at the same time heaviest part of it, I'll send the mate and four men to git it on deck. But to tell you the truth even if we do git her off I don't think she'll float.
"It is the book-keeper." "Mr. Gilbert?" "Yes; he has been there five years. I'll ask him about it." "You'd better, as you're so anxious to find out. Mr. Gilbert is a friend of mine. He spoke only this morning of my valooable services." Roswell looked incredulous. In fact he did not understand Dick at all; nor could he comprehend his imperturbable good-humor.
We put out into the surf not knowing what else to do, and called for Harrie; we leaned on our oars to listen, and heard the water drip into the boat, and the dull thunder beyond the bar; we called again, and heard a frightened sea-gull scream. "This yere's wastin' valooable time," said Hansom, decidedly. I forgot to say that it was George Hansom whom Myron had picked up to help us.
"He had an old lamp, which he had only to rub, when the Slave of the Lamp would appear, and do whatever he wanted." "That must have been a valooable lamp. I'd be willin' to give all my Erie shares for it." There was a tall, gaunt individual at the next table, who apparently heard this last remark of Dick's.
"When I asked him, 'How come you to do it, Pete? he allus answered, 'I dunno; I got to thinkin' about somethin'. If anything valooable had occurred to Pete, whilest he was in one of them thinking spells, he'd have been one of these here geniuses. "When a saw mill sent a slab sailin', or bust a belt, Pete was at the center of the disturbed districk.
Maybe it's an agent of Barnum's, who expects to make a fortun' by exhibitin' the valooable wardrobe of a gentleman of fashion." Dick did not shed many tears over his loss, as, in his present circumstances, he never expected to have any further use for the well-worn garments.
"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."
"Thank you, ma'am," said Dick, comically; "your handsome apology is accepted. It aint of no consequence, only I didn't like to expose the contents of my valooable pocket-book, for fear it might excite the envy of some of my poor neighbors." "You're a character," said the gentleman who had already spoken, with a smile. "A bad character!" muttered the lady.
At least, so we jedged from her papers and the bodies and clothes of them that come ashore some pretty little children, I mind, babies and their black nurses, and their mothers delicate women with valooable rings on their hands. Some of them's buried in the graveyard in the village, and their friends took some away."
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