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"Some o' them are fine an' honourable an' clever too, father." "Was this fellow that called himself 'Jerry' an' all the while was a Lord that same?" "Ivery bit of it, father." "And he trated ye dacent-like?" "Sure, I might have been a LADY, the way he behaved to me." "Did he iver smile at ye?" "Many's the time." "Do ye remember the proverb I taught ye as a child?" "Which wun, father?
Then we'll hang up our stockings, every one; and I'll give you the nicest Christmas dinner can be cooked, if I have to cuff Wun Lungy into basting them turkeys as they ought to be basted. Come, Neddy; come, little Echo; I saw Santy Claus' wife that's me, shove a pan full of gingerbread men into the wall oven, and if they're done, I'll give each of you a soldier of dough to drive you to bed.
Then there was a blurred line where the ink had run, with only a letter or two distinct at intervals. Then half a blank line, and then, very much blurred and obscure, more resembling a row of blots than so much writing: "e as idden sum whare for sertane." Another line all blotted and indistinct; then: "umble Suvvent, Wun oo nose."
"Tell us," inquired Joblins, the `green hand, you may recollect, who went on deck to fetch his second lot of grog with a spud-net and who, though he had been made a bit sharper since then by the chaff and jokes of his messmates, was still not by any means bright, "did yer ever see one o' them ghostesses?" "Hev Oi ivver sane wun?" repeated Mick, in a tone of intense scorn.
"Well, I gueth your old boat took a notion to go to the bottom then, Johnny," asserted Ted, "becauth there are only a pair floating there, I give you my word." "They was every wun thar yist'day," persisted Johnny. "Are you sure of that?" Elmer asked him.
"From Brooklyn, Sor," was his reply, "but I'll niver go back there, for all my friends have been killed by the trolley cars." Larry is very democratic. The other day a guest, on sitting down to lunch, took too much room upon the bench. "Plaze move along, Sor," said Larry. The stranger glared at him. "I am a Count," he remarked at last. "Well, Sor," said Larry, "here you only count wun!"
Weller, 'that the rail is unconstitootional and an inwaser o' priwileges, and I should wery much like to know what that 'ere old Carter as once stood up for our liberties and wun 'em too, I should like to know wot he vould say, if he wos alive now, to Englishmen being locked up vith widders, or with anybody again their wills.
Now, my son, ee comes in at neet all slamp and downcast, an I says to 'im, 'Is there noa news yet o' the Jint Committee, John? I ses to un. 'Noa, mither, ee says, 'they're just keepin ov it on. An ee do seem so down'earted when ee sees the poor soart ov a supper as is aw I can gie un to 'is stomach. Now, I'm wun o' thoase as wants nuthin.
I'm always so, I guess, but I couldn't think of breaking bread before you unless you share it." Therefore sleepy Wun Lung came with the tray, and was gratified by the friendly notice of the stranger; and Mrs. Trent made tea in the little swinging kettle over her alcohol lamp, her daughter declaring that it always tasted better served in that way.
He's k'ite a nice old man, and if Aunt Jane and Miss Wamsay is shotted why, we'll have a jolly time. Now, let's wun and fetch the big bow and arrows." Orion had always a great respect for his younger sister Diana. "Well," he said, "if you're a grand lady, don't forget that I'm a big giant, and that I've got a belt and a sword.
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