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Peggotty. There was a silence. Mr. Peggotty, to relieve it, took two prodigious lobsters, and an enormous crab, and a large canvas bag of shrimps, out of his pockets, and piled them up in Ham's arms. 'You see, said Mr. Peggotty, 'knowing as you was partial to a little relish with your wittles when you was along with us, we took the liberty. The old Mawther biled 'em, she did. Mrs.
In point of fact, music and books provided the Bread of Life to Maurice with solitaire thrown in as a pleasant extra! so "wittles and drink" did not begin to be a consideration until the first year of married life had passed. Eleanor remembered the date when because of something Maurice said she began to realize that they must be considered.
"Why, no longer ago than supper-time last night, when ye said ye had eaten such a lot that ye wouldn't be able to taste another bite for a month to come, an' didn't I see ye pitchin' into the wittles this mornin' as if ye had bin starvin' for a week past?" "Git along wid ye," retorted Flinn; "yer jokes is as heavy as yerself, an' worth about as much."
"Yes," growled Tom Tully; "but that was when I weer hot and wanted to stow some wittles below, and my feet was as sore as if they'd been holystoned or scraped with a rusty nail. I'm ready enough now." "Then I think we ought to go. I don't like the idee o' forsakin' of him." "Pass the word there for the gunner," cried the corporal of marines. "Captain wants him in his cabin."
"You to stand up for him!" Colonel Gundry answered, as if he could scarcely look at me. "You to talk large of him, my Lady Castlewood, while you are doing of his heart into small wittles! Well, I did believe, if no one else, that you were a straightforward one." "And what am I doing that is crooked now?" "Well, not to say crooked, Miss 'Rema; no, no. Only onconsistent, when squared up."
"A warm old g'n'l'm'n!" remarked the boy in the man's hat as he passed. The lively man nodded and winked. "Might eat his wittles raw an' cook 'em inside a'most!" continued the boy; "would advise him to keep out of 'yde Park, though, for fear he'd git too near the powder-magazine!"
Here's a pretty kettle of fish well, well." "Forgot about what?" asked the skipper uneasily. "The crew take their meals in the cabin now," replied the mate, "'cos the missis says it's more cheerful for 'em, and she's l'arning 'em to eat their wittles properly." The skipper looked at him aghast. "You'll have to smuggle me up some grub," he said at length. "I'm not going to starve for nobody."
Thus adjured, and with curiosity somewhat excited, Mrs Mooney suffered herself to be led to that temperance coffee-tavern in Gorleston to which we have already referred. "Ain't it comf'r'able?" asked the boy, as his companion gazed around her. "Now then, missis," he said to the attendant, with the air of an old frequenter of the place, "coffee and wittles for two hot.
He would narrate to us the doings and feats of mighty whips notably of a never-to-be-forgotten dinner at the Pelican Inn, Newbury, to which were gathered the élite of the Bath-road cracksmen. At that great repast we heard how "for wittles there was trout, speckled like a dane dog, weal as wite as allablaster, sherry-wite-wine, red-port, and everything in season.
I makes my pipes of old penny ink-bottles, ye see, deary this is one and I fits-in a mouthpiece, this way, and I takes my mixter out of this thimble with this little horn spoon; and so I fills, deary. Ah, my poor nerves! I got Heavens-hard drunk for sixteen year afore I took to this; but this don't hurt me, not to speak of. And it takes away the hunger as well as wittles, deary.
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