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At the first symptom of the danger, Captain Wopper had rushed towards the culprit. "Rascal!" he growled between his teeth, as he seized Gillie by the nape of the neck, lifted him almost off his legs, and shook him, "d'ee see what you've done?" He thrust the urchin partially over the precipice, and pointed to the man and the mule. "Please, I haven't done it," pleaded Gillie.
It was enough, as Jack Molloy said, to make even a bad man feel good! "Do 'ee speak from personal experience, Jack?" asked a comrade on that occasion. "I might, Jim, if you wasn't here," retorted Molloy; "but it's not easy to feel bad alongside o' you." "That's like a double-edged sword, Jack cuts two ways. W'ich way d'ee mean it?"
For days together he went about whistling "Tho' troubles assail ... "; and the very night before sailing, as they sat quiet, one each side of the hearth, he made the old woman jump by saying all of a sudden, "Coals o' fire!" "What d'ee mean by that?" she asked. "Nothin'. I was thinkin' to myself, and out it popped." "Well, 'tis like a Providence!
"You may call it so. Gettin' on for that, anyway. Fine boats they be; mons'rously improved in my time. But where d'ee come from, you two? here in Tewkesbury, an' not to know about Severn trows?" "We've er jus' run over here for the afternoon, in a motor," said Tilda and truthfully; but it left the old man gasping.
I should have died without you, my doggie you cheer me up, d'ee see, and when it's nigh low water with a man, it don't take much to make him slip his cable. The want of a kind look at this here time, Cuffy, would have sent me adrift, I do believe." It must not be supposed that all this was spoken fluently.
By and by I comes to where the burnous was, and putts it on too, an faix, ye couldn't have towld me from an Arab, for the bare legs an' feet and arms was all right, only just a taste over light in colour, d'ee see? Thinks I to mesilf, Ted, me boy, ye cudn't do better than remain as ye are. Wid a little brown dirt on yer face an' limbs, yer own mother wouldn't know ye.
I'm of a forgivin' disposition. An' it's a good quane you'll make, too, av ye don't let the men have too much o' their own way. But I do think that you an' me togither'll be more than a match for them all. D'ee think ye could stand the caronation now, dear?" "Yes, I think I could.
But this money has, without my knowledge, been taken away and " "Stolen, you mean!" exclaimed Flinders, in surprise. "No, not stolen taken! I can't explain just now. It's enough to know that it is gone, and that my plan is thus overturned." "D'ee think Gashford would let him out for that?" asked the Irishman, anxiously.
"Come now, Ole Scrubby," repeated the man, "we's got no time to waste. D'ee hear?" Evidently it heard, for, after allowing its master to advance within three feet of it, and even putting out its nose to smell his black hand, it gave a snort, turned round, tossed up its heels, and trotted away.
I thought your mother was goin' to keep you at home this trip to mind the babby." "So she was, boy, but the babby fell into a can o' buttermilk an' got drownded, so I had to come off again, d'ee see?" "What cheer, Groggy Fox? Have 'ee hoisted the blue ribbon yet?" "No, Stephen Lockley, I haven't, nor don't mean to, but one o' the fleet seems to have hoisted the blue flag."
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