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And if he's getting good money he'll soon forget all about the girl; for he'll see plenty more just as good as her. Anyway that's my experience, Sam." Bidding his friend good-bye, Watson, with a gloomy brow, walked to the Circular Quay and hired a water-man to take him down the harbour to the Mahina. "There she is, sir, over there in Neutral Bay," said the boatman as he rounded Fort Macquarie.
Granger had had a summer love-affair with that same maid, as had many a young water-man before and after him. One quiet Sunday evening, when her fickle passion had reached its short-lived height, he had even been allowed the felicity of accompanying her to vespers at the quaint old Norman Church, which lay snuggled away in woods behind the Thames.
It would be wrong to leave the impression that orchid culture is actually as facile as market gardening, but we may say that the eccentricities of Phaloenopsis and the rest have no more practical importance for the class I would persuade than have the terrors of the deep for a Thames water-man.
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the water-man, the muskrat. The sound did not rise up out of the lake, for it came down from overhead. With his hands still on his knees, Iktomi turned his face upward into the great willow tree. Opening wide his mouth he begged, "My friend, my friend, give me a bone to gnaw!"
His black eyes showed a ring of white about them as he stared at the empty ground. There was no pot of boiled fish! There was no water-man in sight! "Oh, if only I had shared my food like a real Dakota, I would not have lost it all! Why did I not know the muskrat would run through the water? He swims faster than I could ever run! That is what he has done.
Outside that circle again was a rude square, traced out in bits of red brick alternating with fragments of broken china; the whole bounded by a little bank of dust. The water-man from the well-curb put in a plea for the small architect, saying that it was only the play of a baby and did not much disfigure my garden.
"I don't care," said Lonnie; "guess you can't drive a nail any better than I can, Susy Parlin, and I can row her some, anyhow. Now, Abner, can't I row her?" "Yes, my boy, I think I've heard you roar," replied Abner, with a provoking smile. "Well, can't I row her this way?" "Middlin' well," returned Abner, cautiously; "but little Sue, here, is the water-man for me."
You go down a bit, past wheer th' water-man lives and then Somerset Drive, as they ca' it, branches off on 't right hand side an' there's nowt but three houses in it, no more than three, I believe, an' I'm a'most certain as theirs is th' last th' last o' th' three you see 'Thank you very much, said Gerald. 'Good-night. And he started off, leaving the tipsy man there standing rooted.
Dave did not hesitate at the word of relationship now. Mr. Bellmore did not know the secret. "Oh, I think I understand," the water-man said. "I'm sorry I began negotiations with Molick, but I don't very well see how I can get out of them. I need his water rights." "Perhaps he hasn't as many rights as you think he has," suggested Mr. Carson. "What do you mean?"
The water-man from the well-curb put in a plea for the small architect, saying that it was only the play of a baby and did not much disfigure my garden.
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