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I nodded, and he seated himself on a three-legged stool and whetted a long knife against one of the fireplace stones, and mumbled: "Don't make no differ about me, but for the sake o' these younkers here such men as love killin' Injuns oughter keep clear o' the settlements an' do their stent on t'other side the Ohio. Old Cornstalk's powerful keen to git them fellers.
Old Joe Bunk had a dictionary of them, and in calm weather he used to go among his horses and horned cattle, and talk with them by the hour. He made a diagram of the language, and had it taught to all us younkers who were exposed to the accidents of the bea. Now, I will try my hand on this Arab, for I could never go to sleep while the honest black imagined we intended to breakfast on him."
Already his mates were teasing him about it and prophesying that Lem had done his last job on the ranch. Hereafter, if he was missed, all the "boys" would have to do would be to hunt up Dorothy, or her chums, and find him. "What's a doin', younkers? Hope your ridin' round didn't tire ye none. Hello! Gone to raisin' sheep, have ye? Mighty pretty little creatur', that one is. Where'd you find it?"
I was the mate of the watch, and, as day dawned, I had amused myself with other younkers over the side, examining the shot holes and other injuries sustained from the fire of the frigate, and contrasting the clean, sharp, well defined apertures, made by the 24 pound shot from the long guns, with the bruised and splintered ones from the 32 pound carronades; but the men had begun to wash down the decks, and the first gush of clotted blood an water from the scuppers fairly turned me sick.
Jap Norris told us so on our way home from school." The father's kindly eyes rested upon them with an indulgent twinkle in their depths. "Waal, naow, if there's a bit o' news in this hull taown thet you younkers don't pick up, I'd like to find it! Yes, ef Jap Norris said so, I s'pose it's true; he oughter know, bein' as his fayther's the cap'n.
'Tis pleasant enough to be cheated for a little while, as the younkers are, and as you'll be, your honour; but that's a pleasure don't last long t'other lasts all your life; dare say your honour's often heard rich gentlemen say to their sons, 'you ought, for your own happiness' sake, like, my lad, to have summut to do ought to have some profession, be you niver so rich, very true, your honour, and what does that mean? why it means that 'stead of being idle and cheated, the boy ought to be busy and cheat augh!"
"I expected it," replied Dick, sitting down, inside the spire top. "What are you doing?" demanded the real estate man. "Taking off my shoes," Dick replied coolly. "Do you really mean to make the attempt?" "You don't think a Gridley boy would back out at this late moment?" queried Dick, in surprise. "Ye couldn't stop these younkers, now, by force," chuckled the janitor.
The old organist whose death had brought these two younkers on their wild-goose chase was Dietrich Buxtehude, the famous man whom Johann Sebastian Bach walked fifty miles on foot to hear, and whose compositions he studied and profited from. Old Buxtehude, himself the son of an organist, had himself married the daughter of the organist who had preceded him.
"He means his wife and younkers!" he shouted eagerly. "This ain't no Jem Dadd!" It was good then to see how our fellows drew round the dying sailor, and strove to cheer him. Bill, to show he understood the finger business, nodded cheerily, and held his hand at four different heights from the floor.
There was another man I should like to have met Sir Henry Wotton; for he was an ideal angler. "Would you believe it, my dear Shepherd," said he, "that my piscatory passions are almost dead within me, and I like now to saunter along the banks and braes, eying the younkers angling, or to lay me down on some sunny spot, and with my face up to heaven, watch the slow-changing clouds!"
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