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Updated: May 5, 2025
That night the boys at the saloon wrinkled their brows like unto an impecunious Committee of Ways and Means, as they vainly endeavored to surmise why Grump could want that young man as a lodger. Men who pursued wittling as an aid to reason made pecks of chips and shavings, and were no nearer a solution than when they began.
There's Mr Trout-and-Salmon Preddle at one handle, and the doctor at t'other, with Mr Brymer to relieve while we're off dooty to go and 'vestigate the wittling department. That's so, eh, lads?" "Ay, ay," growled Dumlow. "That's so," said Barney; "and then I'm to take my turn at the squirting, if so be as you can't put it out." "No fear of that, Barney," I cried.
"Being now in a regular fix, I cut a stick, and began wittling and whistling, to lighten my sorrows, till at last I perceived at the bank of the river, and five hundred yards ahead, one of those large rafts, constructed pretty much like Noah's ark, in which a Wabash farmer embarks his cargo of women and fleas, pigs and chickens, corn, whisky, rats, sheep, and stolen niggers; indeed, in most cases, the whole of the cargo is stolen, except the wife and children, the only portion whom the owner would very much like to be rid of; but these will stick to him as naturally as a prairie fly to a horse, as long as he has spirits to drink, pigs to attend to, and breeches to mend.
"Right, sir." "Then what shall we do first?" "First thing's wittling the place, and putting in some stores." "Now, that sounds sensible. Quite right. We must get some blankets." "From the Manor, sir?" "Right again, Samson. And all the food we can. Why, Samson " "Yes, sir; I know what you are going to say.
"Let's see," said the sailor; "didn't I jolly well tell yer? Congratulations!" "Does it mean I go to Slopsgotten?" Tom asked. "They'll keep us there till the war's over, too," said the one called Freddie. "We'll never get a good whack at Fritzie now." Tom's heart fell. "We'll be wittling souveneers out o' wood," Freddie concluded. "We'll have plenty o' wood," said his comrade.
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