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The men instantly drew up in battle array, and threw forward their muskets; but as there were only a dozen of them, they presented a very insignificant group compared with the crowds of Esquimaux who appeared on the ice in front of them. "Now, then, stand fast, men, and I'll show ye wot's the way to manage them chaps. Keep yer weather-eyes open, and don't let them git in rear of ye."
For it's all over the place that there's trouble about Miss Vancourt, an' you may take my wurrd for it, Passon, they don't leave the poor little leddy alone, nor you neither, an' never takes into their minds as 'ow you're old enough to be 'er father. That Miss Tabitha don't spare no wurrds agin 'er an' as ye know, Passon, she's a leddy wot's like curdled cream all gone wrong in a thunderstorm.
"Please, sir," began Tom, with a slightly disconcerted air, "I'm afeard, sir, that um " "Well, Tom, what would you say? Go on." "The pipe, sir," said Tom, growing still more disconcerted "says I to cook, says I, `Cook, wot's been an' done it, d'ye think? `Dun know, Tom, says he, `but it's smashed, that's sartin. I think the gray cat "
"An' I say it were done on a foul," reiterated Cragg, with another blow of his fist, "an' wot's more, if Buck Vibart stood afore me ah, in this 'ere very room, I'd prove my words." "Humph!" said the red-headed man, "they do say as he's wonderful quick wi' his 'mauleys, an' can hit like a sledgehammer."
Rowe was just coming on board again, and I found courage in the emergency to gasp out, "What was that?" "Wot's wot?" said Mr. Rowe testily. "That noise and the falling thing." "Somebody throwing, somethin' at a cat," said the barge-master. "Stand aside, sir, if you please." It was a relief, but when at length Mr.
"'E's been at peace now six months come Tuesday," continued Mrs. Smithers, "and on account of 'is 'avin' broke the tea set, I don't feel no call to wear mourning for 'im more 'n a year, though folks thinks as 'ow it brands me as 'eartless for takin' it off inside of two. Sakes alive, wot's that?" she cried, drawing her sable skirts more closely about her as a dark shadow darted across the kitchen.
When first the fierce German searchlights were turned on the British lines a little cockney in the Middlesex Regiment exclaimed to his comrade: "Lord, Bill, it's just like a play, an' us in the limelight"; and as the artillery fusillade passed over their heads, and a great ironical cheer rose from the British trenches, he added: "But it's the Kaiser wot's gettin' the bird."
What do you make of it?" "A shootin' star, I declare!" said Andy Sudds. "Nothing of the kind," exclaimed Jack, quickly. "A star could not shoot up from the earth." "Wot's dat says somebody's a-shootin' at us?" gasped Washington White. "If dey punctuates our tire, we'll suah go down wid a big ker-smash!"
"And what's the use of the gold in the ground when the flume isn't there to work it out?" said Jessie to her sister, with a cautioning glance towards Dick. But Dick did not notice the look that passed between the sisters. The richer humor of Jessie's retort had thrown him into convulsions of laughter. "And now SHE says, wot's the use o' the gold without the flume?
Clay, he accepted her as housewifely, though somewhat "interfering," and, being one of "his own womankind," therefore not without some degree of merit. "Wot's this yer I'm hearin' of your doin's over at Red Pete's? Honey-foglin' with a horse-thief, eh?" said Mr. Clay two days later at breakfast.
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