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Updated: June 13, 2025
Go an' sin no more. I mane, let the good worruk go awn!" "Now watch for the evening papers," said young Phil Stacey exultantly. "The Wrightery will get some free advertising that'll crowd it for months." Alas for youth's golden hopes! The evening papers ignored the carefully prepared event. One morning paper published a paragraph, attributing the green noses to a masquerade party.
Then I began to boast of the performance and to warn Tim that on the following Sunday afternoon I should explain my success to the men in the bunk-house. "Yes, yes, indeed, yer honour," said Tim, "y're a janyus! There's no doubt about that at all, at all! But " "Go on," I said. "I was jist switherin'," said Tim, "what a wontherful thing ut is that a man kin always hev worruk whin he invints ut."
As I stood looking at the first course of six stones, my friend, the Tramp, stretched his strong arms out to their fullest extent and said: "Ay, but it's worruk that's good for me; give me worruk, and it's all I'll be askin' fur." I ventured to suggest that he had not yet accomplished much. "Wait till to-morror. Ah, but ye'll see thin.
That worruk has been done; my name as the greatest living Wild Man from Barneo is writ, sor, in letthers av goold upon fame's highest pin er, pinister! There, sor, it is to-day, and shall I now " "Billy," replied the queer little man, "you shall not. Your vords is werry booterful an' werry true.
The Professor shook his head; he was not rich, he said, and had already spent more money in the contest than he could afford. "Be gob, it's poor worruk this talkin' an' votin' for us that gets nothin' by it" the phrase stuck in his memory as illustrating the paltry baseness of the whole affair.
"Any cookies, Eliza?" asked King, apropos of nothing. "Cookies, is it? There do be, indade! But if yez be afther eatin' thim now, ye'll shpoil yer supper, thot ye will! Here's one a piece to ye, and now run away, and lave me do me worruk. Be off with yez!" After accepting a cookie apiece, the children bounced out the back door and down into the garden in search of Carter.
"Arrah sure, sorr, the poor chap ownly did it to show his willin'ness to worruk his passige, sayin' as how Mr Mackay tould him ye'd blow him up for comin' aboard whin he came-to this arternoon, sorr," pleaded Tim, not perceiving, as I did, that all the captain's anger against the unfortunate stowaway had melted away by this time on learning that he had shown such courage.
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