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Loose End was owned by an elderly squatter with many children. Five big gums, which could be seen for miles, stood sentinel over the homestead on a rising knoll of ground. "But if yous ain't lucky, don't hit up Loose End. Old Twist has lots o' luck, but it's mostly bad luck. A kid every year, an' eether a bush fire or a flood or something to make up for it.
"Wotcher doin' in my 'ouse?" suddenly inquired Sloppy, blinking with suspicion at Flash Kate. "Yous go 'ome, me fine lady, afore yer git yerself talked about." The woman at the door laughed loudly, and pretended to examine with keen interest a new wedding ring on her finger. "Cum 'ere, an' I'll tear yer blasted eyes out," cried the drunkard, turning on her furiously.
It ain't only the fifty cents I mind it's your disobedience and your stealin'." "Oh, father! it wasn't STEALING!" "Of course it wasn't stealin' takin' what you earnt yourself whether you ARE seventeen instead of twenty-one!" her aunt warmly assured her. "Now look-ahere, Em! If yous are goin' to get her so spoilt fur me, over here, she ain't stayin' here. I'll take her home!"
Me and Nathaniel Puntz has a statement to make to the Board that'll chase that tony dude teacher off his job so quick he won't have time to pack his trunk!" "Is that so?" the doctor said in feigned surprise. "Well, he certainly is some tony that I must give him, Jake. Well, good night to yous! Be careful of Tillie's health!"
"Good gracious! you don't say so!" and Uncle Nathan understood the mystery of the previous night. "Sorra a word o' lie in it." "But where in natur is the feller?" asked the wonder-struck Yankee, his curiosity getting the better of every other consideration. "Whisht, now," whispered Pat; "he is in one of those boxes, with the dead men! Do yous mind?" "Good gracious! how you talk! In a coffin?"
The guard and driver got leisurely out of the train and stood on the platform; the stationmaster-cum-porter-cum-hotel-keeper, in a pair of dungaree trousers and a dusty vest of flesh-coloured cellular material which gave him the effect of nakedness, stared at them as though passengers were the last phenomenon he had expected to see. "Cripes! What yous want?" he said.
"Pshaw," giggled Tilly, "he was askin' me that very same thing before yous girls came in, and I told him I'd take a gun so's I could shoot myself when we got there. No letters for your folks to-day, Christine, but your fellow's letter don't come till to-morrow anyhow," she added with a giggle at her joke. "Oh, say girls," whispered Bell Brown, "look who's comin'!"
"Divil a coffin at all. Sure as nate a bit of a box as iver held a Christian." "But why does he wish to speak with the lady?" "Sorra know I know," replied Pat, to whom Hatchie had communicated no more than was necessary. "Does he wish to see her in person?" "Not a bit of it. Now, do you mind, I saw you speaking to the lady, and I tould him of it. Then the naiger axed me could he trust yous.
He jist looks at the others, an' he says, kind o' gruff like, 'Go on, yous; don't you mind me. "Well, it was my turn this time, an' I jist bust out louder'n the twins. An' I says, 'Oh, Jake, I says, 'he'll die if we don't adopt him, too, an' so'll I! I says.
I've brought a wad of hay in the basket meself, for 'fraid yous might be short of it up here." Jerry gave a kick to the basket, which betrayed the flimsy nature of its contents by rolling over with a wobble on its side. At this critical moment Mrs.
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