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But you see fathers ain't nice i' this 'ere part o' the continent. If I wos a husband and a father, I don't know as how I should be A One, myself. P'r'aps I might think it wur my turn to break arms and legs. I knowed more 'n one father as did. It's no wonder the boys is a plaguy lot, daddy. Tho. Goo away, boy.
Weller, stirring a glass of brandy-and-water, of which one was placed before every gentleman when the oyster shells were removed 'Mr. Pell, Sir, it wos my intention to have proposed the funs on this occasion, but Samivel has vispered to me Here Mr. Samuel Weller, who had silently eaten his oysters with tranquil smiles, cried, 'Hear! in a very loud voice.
He put on his green spectacles an' looked at them as if he'd seen a rattlesnake. "'My good man, says he, 'you've crushed them all to pieces! "'They'll taste as good for all that, says I; for somehow I'd taken't in me head that he'd heard o' the way the Injuns make soup o' the grasshoppers, an' wos wantin' to try his hand at a new dish!
"Yus," chimed in Bill. "If ye'd take the 'uff if so be as we wos to " "Dry up, you, Bill," said Jemmy. "It's just this 'ere, guvnor.
One wos an Injun, as ugly a sinner as iver I seed; t'other wos a Yankee lad, in a hole diggin' gold. Before my two eyes were well on them, the red villain lets fly an arrow, and the man fell down with a loud yell into the hole.
Deborah never forgave herself for having left Sylvia alone, and nursed her with a fierce tenderness which was the result of remorse. "If that wretch 'ad killed my pretty," she said to Paul, "I'd ha' killed her, if I wos hanged fur it five times over." "God has punished the woman," said Paul, solemnly. "And a terrible death she met with, being mutilated by the wheels of the train."
We will not drag the reader through every step of the rough and adventurous journey which was accomplished by our travellers in the succeeding week, during which they became so familiar with tigers, that Muggins thought no more of their roaring than he did of the mewing of cats, while Larry actually got the length of kicking the "sarpints" out of his way, although he did express his conviction, now and then, that the "counthry wos mightily in want of a visit from Saint Patrick."
Sangsby, wos, that when I wos moved on as fur as ever I could go and couldn't he moved no furder, whether you might be so good p'raps as to write out, wery large so that any one could see it anywheres, as that I wos wery truly hearty sorry that I done it and that I never went fur to do it, and that though I didn't know nothink at all, I knowd as Mr.
"`Now, says I, `wot for are ye scraggin' this old man? So they told me how the party that went off to git the murderer met a band o' injuns comin' to deliver him up to be killed, they said, for murderin' the white man. An' they gave up this old Injun, sayin' he wos the murderer. The diggers believed it, and returned with the old boy and two or three others that came to see him fixed off.
"Well, Mister Stewart, I'll ap'int myself cook to our party, havin', if I may say so, a nat'ral talent that way, w'ich wos deweloped on my first voyage round the world, w'en our cook died of a broken heart so it's said 'cause the doctor knocked off his grog, and put him on an allowance o' lime juice."
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