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"Ay, but how long did it last?" demanded the skipper, hitting the table with his fist. "Oh, please, have pity on the tea-cups, uncle Rik," cried the hostess. "Beg pardon, sister, but I can't help getting riled when I hear younkers talkin' stuff.
Then he said: "'Pears as if I couldn't see clarly after that tarnation blow. You look out, Neb. And, Padre, you'd better step back thar and keep a weather eye on them younkers. It doesn't do to turn them out too free, with things all broke up." "You're right, man, you're right, Jeroboam," said the good Brother tremulously. "I'll keep an eye on them, as you say."
It goes on by government, and management, and discipline, and the stopping of younkers from their blessed foolery, and by the ten commandments, and the proverbs of King Solomon. You to teach your father how the world goes on! Off with your coat, and I'll teach you."
So them 'orders' is all I hev to give: the Padre, being a bit nervous, may hev some of his own; but thar ain't nothing to hurt four strapping younkers round Killykinick except right here. And now, I reckon, it's about time for dinner. I'm ready for some of Neb's clam-chowder, I know; and I guess you are, too."
"O, no," was the scornful response; "I'm going to take his hand and tell him how much I love him. I'll wipe the paint off one cheek, so as to make room fur a brotherly kiss. I'll send him to your folks, that you may have him for a playmate. He'll be so sweet and nice among the little younkers. That's what I'll do with dear Motoza!"
"I should say that it is worth from six to eight hundred dollars; you younkers have made purty good wages for to-day. I hope," he added quizzically, "you'll be able to keep it up." "And how have you made out?" asked Roswell. "Tim says he didn't come onto anything that looks like pay dirt; but I struck a spot that gives me hope. We'll locate here for a while."
The boys could well afford to laugh at the pleasantry of the man who, it was evident, felt a partiality for them. He added, more seriously: "You'd have more show to shoot game if you parted, but I'd not advise you to do it till after you've hunted for some days together. It's mighty easy for younkers like you to git lost in these mountains.
Around them the younkers, "hasty hensures" and "wanton winklots," were busy preparing the habiliments of the guysers whose modes of masking and disguising were often regulated by the characters they were to assume, or the songs they had learned to chant for the occasion.
Egerton, whom I hate like poison, I have a right to do that, I suppose, without offence to your Lordship, and the two younkers, Leonard Fairfield and Randal Leslie, shall be members for the free and independent borough of Lansmere!" "But does Leonard wish to come into parliament?" "No, he says not; but that's nonsense.
"Ha, Ralph Percy!" he cried, wagging his gray head, "we two be the only sane younkers in the plantations! All the others are horn-mad!" "I have caught the infection," I said, "and am one of the bedlamites." He stared, then broke into a roar of laughter. "Art in earnest?" he asked, holding his fat sides. "Is Saul among the prophets?" "Yes," I answered.
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