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But I've always noticed that w'en the time for wakin' up's come, we've got to wake up whether we like it or no; d'ye see, lad?" "I'd see better if you didn't blow the ashes into my eyes in that way," answered March, laughing at the depth of his companion's philosophical remark. "Then we shall have to go home without meat that's all," replied Bounce, filling and lighting his pipe.
He set his hand on the side of the cart and sprang upon the hub of the wheel. A glance at the occupants satisfied him. "Mrs. Harman!" he yelled. "Mrs. Harman!" He leaped down into the road. "I knowed I was a fool to come away without wakin' up Rameau. But you haven't beat us yet!" He drove back into the lane, but just inside its entrance I met him. "Where are you going?" I asked.
I didn't find our till he got to wakin' me up nights with his tossin' about an' groanin' in his sleep. There! What'd you call it? Cancer or tumour no two ways about it, eh?" But the quick eye of Walter Merritt Emory had not missed, in passing, the twisted fingers of Kwaque's left hand. Not only was his eye quick, but it was a "leper eye."
Ducane catches him a sanakatowzer of a smite over the 'ead with the flat of his sword. Down comes Glass's rifle with language to correspond, and he fiddles with the bolt. Up jumps Maclean 'oo was a Gosport 'ighlander an' lands on Glass's neck, thus bringin' him to the deck, fully extended. "The old man makes a great show o' wakin' up from sweet slumbers.
It's jest a kick here, and a cuff there, and a twitch by the ear in t'other place; one a shovin' on 'em this way, and another hittin' on 'em a clip, and all growlin' from mornin' to night. I believe the way my ears got so long was bein' hauled out o' my berth by 'em: that 'are's a sailor's regular way o' wakin' up a boy.
Lean Wilkes, the baker, was watching the trust schemer with baleful eye, and now his slow tongue evolved a pretty retort. "No one sed you was nor thought it likely." "The duff puncher wakin' up," sneered Smallbones, angrily. "Guess it's your voice hurtin' my ear drums," replied Jake, ponderously. At that moment Abe Horsley joined the group. He called for drinks before adding his bit to the talk.
"We better clear out," said the voice of Bennie. "We better clear out pretty quick! Pa's awful bad, sometimes, when he's just wakin' up!" With a quickness not unlike the bump at the end of a falling-through-space dream, Rose-Marie felt herself drawn from the room heard the door close with a slam behind her.
"Whut yuh doin' hyuh, w'ite lady?" he asked in a thick voice, and grinned. And quite suddenly such a fear as I had not dreamed could be felt by a mortal took me by the heart and squeezed it as with an iron hand. "Whut foh yuh come by mah field, lil w'ite lady?" he purred. "Ah'm takin' lil snooze in de ditch grass, an' dey yuh comes, wakin' me up! Whut yuh wake me up for, w'ite gal?"
It's for killin' the whole of us he'll be. And it wasn't me set it afire. Sorra the match was I meddlin' wid, I could swear it. I wasn't out of it any time, gettin' a few ripe berries to pacify them childer, agin they would be wakin' and roarin', and when I come back, there it is all a smother of smoke.
If the whistle was merry the night before, it was mad with joy on that Wednesday evening. "Pat! Pat! what ails you?" cried his mother as the boy came bounding in with a shout and a toss of his cap. "You'll be wakin' your brothers." "I'd like to wake 'em, mother," was the jubilant answer. "I've got news that's worth wakin' 'em for." "And what is it?" was the eager question.
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