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Besides, it was all in the way of your profession, and happened a long time ago, ha, ha, ha! 'Pshaw! pshaw! don't let us jest; I am not against making a handsome compliment; but it's your affair as well as mine. 'What do you talk of my affair? is it not you that keep the younker's whole estate from him? Dirk Hatteraick never touched a stiver of his rents. 'Hush! hush!
"The younker's father lives in New York; he's got to be reached, and the question laid afore him. How much money will Motoza ask to produce the younker?" "Certainly not much something like five thousand dollars, I should say." "That is rather a healthy pile for you or me, but I don't 'spose it's more than a trifle for them folks in the East."
We can't teach him much yet, you'll all allow, and the Captain says as how he'll give nine dozen to any man as puts a quid of baccy in the younker's mouth; so we can't even learn him to chaw yet, which to my mind he'd do better nor anything else, as he's most practice with his jaws just yet; but the time will come when he can use his fists, too, and the sooner he gets 'em into the tar-bucket the better, says I." This opinion was loudly applauded by all present.
I've bin riding round and collecting on 'em for this mad party of Younker's, who went off without any precaution; and I'm now on my way to deliver 'em, that they may start instanter arter the cussed red skins, and punish 'em according to the Mosaic law."
Besides, it was all in the way of your profession, and happened a long time ago, ha, ha, ha! 'Pshaw! pshaw! don't let us jest; I am not against making a handsome compliment; but it's your affair as well as mine. 'What do you talk of my affair? is it not you that keep the younker's whole estate from him? Dirk Hatteraick never touched a stiver of his rents. 'Hush! hush!
In the country where she was brought up and known, to say of another, that he or she could compete with Ben Younker's wife in talking, was considered the extreme of comparison; and it is not recorded that any individual ever presumed on the credulity of the public sufficient to assert that the vocal powers of the said Mrs. Younker were ever surpassed.
"Naught's amiss, master," replied the youth more briefly than his wont, and with a sudden spring from a projecting bowlder he passed the two elder men and arrived first at the Common house. "That younker's face and voice are not so blithe as might be. Hast been chiding him, Myles?" asked Bradford as they followed down the hill. "Nay," replied the captain.
"There have I had to buy him a wonderful book about mines over yonder, of the white-headed master miner who is as old as the hills, and who has been blind these three years: the marvellous grey-beard copied the book ages ago, when he was young and had a younker's itching for knowing more than his neighbours, from the manuscript of a travelling Tyrolese, and took the trouble of scratching likenesses of all the foolish pictures in it.
"Yes, likely you may well say," returned the other; "and so war the whole family God ha' mercy on 'em! But what's been done here?" "Why, I suppose Ella Barnwell Younker's niece, you know and a likely young stranger who war along with her, called Reynolds, have been captured."
Turning, Fred sped across the street and back under the shadows at the rear of the lawyer's great house. "I wonder if the younker's gettin' wise?" murmured Tip. "He ain't smart enough to know that fer him to go to his old man an' tell the whole yarn 'ud be cheapest in the run. The old man 'ud be mad at Rip, but the old man's a lawyer, an' 'ud know how to lay down the blackmail law to me!"
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