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Updated: June 18, 2025
''Ow in 'ell d'you make that art? ''Cos I'm the medical orficer o' this 'ere ship. 'Ah, sez Number One, slow like and grinnin' all over 'is face and tappin' 'is nose. 'You means, doc., that I've no right to order the boys to be bled, wot? 'That's just 'xactly wot I does mean, sez the doctor, gittin' a bit rattled like." "I quite agree with him," I put in.
"I hear; but we can't always git things to go 'xactly as we approves of," replied Bounce, stooping down to arrange the embers of the previous night's fire. Bounce's proper name was Bob Ounce. His comrades called him "Bounce."
"Oh!" said Waller, with the vacant air of a man who feels himself as wise at the termination as he was at the beginning of an explanation. "Yes," resumed Bounce, "that's how it is. I must confess, for my part, that I don't 'xactly see the advantage o' us in that light. I should ha' thought it would ha' bin better to make us stand to one side, d'ye see, and let him see how the land lies.
But Dingee presently returned, more thoroughly taken aback than often befel him. 'Can't make it out, 'xactly, sir, he said, hesitating. 'Fact is, it's drefful hard work to 'member messages, sight easier made 'em up! But Missee Hazel say, Mas Rollo thought she say please 'scuse her dis afternoon. 'Pears like dat ar' headache done come back, said Dingee, in his bewilderment.
"Not 'xactly," he replied, "but I've trapped on the west side o' the mountains, and the Redskin is excited a bit at meetin' with a man who knows his nation and his name. I've heard of him before. He was thought a brave warrior by his tribe, but it is so long since he disappeared from the face o' the 'arth that they've given him up for dead. His wife was alive last fall.
But why do you ask the question?" "Don't know 'xactly, sir. P'raps that blessed sea-fog reminds me of it, somehow or other though there's little likeness, as far as that goes, between the west coast and Portsmouth, is there, sir?" "I don't suppose there is," I said; "but what puts the Niger, of all places in the world, in your head at the present moment?"
"What do you mean, boy?" said the lady, a gaze of surprise chasing away the look of alarm which had covered her pretty face. "I mean 'xactly what I says, miss. The dog's your own: I sold it to you long ago for five bob!" The girl for she was little more than sixteen turned with a startled, doubting look to the dog.
This grieved, him deeply, because every preparation had been made by his companions for starting on their homeward journey that evening, so that he had no time to spare. Mary, was at home, however, so March felt a little consoled, and, seating himself in his wonted place beside the fire, he said "When will Dick be home, Mary?" "Me no can know 'xactly. To-morray hims say, perhaps."
How d' y', Miss Kate?" said the colored man, touching his hat and riding up on the side of the road to let them pass. "I do' know how I likes it yit, Mah'sr Harry. Don't seem 'xactly nat'ral after ridin' de oder road so long!" "You have a pretty big letter-bag there," said Harry. "Dat's so," said Miles; "but 'taint dis big ebery day.
I'm only eight, you see, and eight isn't a very reasonable age. But I couldn't think of any better way." The Child's eyes riveted to the beautiful face almost saw it nod a little. "I haven't decided 'xactly, but perhaps I shall love my mother Sunday mornings and my father Sunday afternoons. If if it seems best to. I'll let you know."
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