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Do you know your goods that were seized and carried to Woodbourne are now lying in the custom-house at Portanferry? Now I will commit this younker 'When you have caught him. 'Ay, ay, when I have caught him; I shall not be long about that. I will commit him to the workhouse, or bridewell, which you know is beside the custom-house. 'Yaw, the rasp-house; I know it very well.
"Yes, indeed, you see me as strong and hearty as ever, and richer than I have been since I first started off from home as a younker, with a pack at my back and a rifle in my hand. Never have I made a more successful trip; for I have returned with the waggon so loaded that I sometimes feared the stout wheels would give way under the weight they carried."
My daughter and the baron will soon be the town-talk my house lose its character the president will get wind of it, and the short and long of the matter is, I'll show the younker the door. MRS MILLER. You did not entice him to your house did not thrust your daughter upon him! MILLER. Didn't entice him to my house didn't thrust the girl upon him! Who'll believe me? I was master of my own house.
One squint, Burton, just to see what sort of a younker he may be. Come now, he ain't a chap to be ashamed of, I'm sure. There ain't none like him here aboard, I'll swear. He don't come up to Quacko anyhow. Come, Dick, show us him now, do, there's a good chap."
"I never knowed his mother she havin' been dead afore I lift owld Ireland and his father was taken down with a sort of fever a week ago, when we was t'other side of Fort Aubray. It was n't anything dangerous at all but it sort of weakened him, so that it was belaved best for him to tarry there awhile until he could regain his strength." "Why did n't you and the younker stay with him?"
Fits crossed the cabin, helping himself to the chair by the table. "I see you've got plenty of grub here," the big fellow went on. "I'll bother you to make me some hot coffee and get me the best you have to eat. Step lively, too! Any younker that doesn't move fast enough I'll pick up and swat, and then I'll throw him out in the snow to stay." Saying which, with a savage snort, Mr.
Younker; "for the poor thing war a prisoner along with us, crying whensomever she dared to, like all nater." "Well," rejoined the old hunter, musingly, "we've done all we could I'm sorry it didn't turn out better but we must now leave their fates in the hands o' Providence, and return to our homes.
"Alice," he whispered "Alice, dear Alice, I love thee." Alas, it was true: he loved and forgot all but that love. He was eighteen. "How like a younker or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay!" /Merchant of Venice/. WE are apt to connect the voice of Conscience with the stillness of midnight. But I think we wrong that innocent hour.
Yes, we did rather guess that somebody must have been taking fish or game when the law was shut down on it; but then, you see, that was none of our business. We're just Boy Scouts off on a camping trip; and nobody's employed us to bother with game poachers, or send word to the wardens." "Game wardens, hey? Ye seem to let that slip off yer tongue, younker, like ye might be used to sayin' the same.
"What relation, you ought to say, younker, because Matilda, she's my long-lost sister, and the one I'm a-hopin' will nurse me from now on till my time comes to shuffle off this planet and go hence!" The two boys heard this stunning announcement with mingled feelings.
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