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"It has been that way with us, too," said I, "but it is the rebel 'Grants' we curse, and the Ethan Allens and John Starks, and treacherous Green Mountain Boy's, who would shoot us in the backs or make a dicker with Sir Henry sooner than lift a finger to obey the laws of the State they are betraying."
All being still again, he turned to the grinning old farmer, who was doubtless getting more solid satisfaction out of this new experience than he had obtained from any clever dicker or trade engineered in the last ten years. "Mr.
"When I was able to get about I told Alluna that I must be going, but as I told her I watched her face, and saw the sign I wanted the white girl had clutched at her like she had at me, and she couldn't give her up, so I made a dicker with her old man.
"Tom Dicker, who has made two voyages, says that he had to go through as much as I have, and advised me to grin and bear it. Sometimes it is more than I feel I can do, and I am like to jump overboard." "Don't allow so dreadful a thought to enter your mind," exclaimed Owen. "O no, no! I don't really think of doing it," answered Nat. "I should miss the object for which I came to sea.
Across the woods came the knell of parting day, the curfew from the tower of Hamelsham: the "lowing herd wound slowly o'er the lea" from the Dicker, when two friars came in sight, who wore the robe of Saint Francis, and approached the gateway. "There be some of those 'kittle cattle, the new brethren," said the old porter from his grated window in the gateway tower over the bridge.
There was nothing on the island to tempt a trading vessel, and even the sperm whalers, as they lumbered lazily past from Strong's Island to Guam, would not bother to lower a boat and "dicker" for pearl-shell or turtle.
But I never heard an Englishman play a violin like that before." "Nor I," Cutty agreed. "When the owner sends for that fiddle let me know. Mr. Hawksley might like to dicker for it. If you know where the owner is you might cable that you have an offer of twelve thousand." "I'm sorry, but I haven't the least idea where the owner is.
The people here are beginning to get sick of Mr. President. They say he's been too free with concessions; and they accuse him of trying to make a dicker with England to sell out the country. We want that picture done and paid for before there's any row." In the great patio of Casa Morena, the president caused to be stretched a huge canvas. Under this White set up his temporary studio.
He knew by the cheer that he was secure again and popular; he knew that he would no more endanger his security and popularity by straying from the Clan of Good Fellows. Henry Thompson dashed into the office, clamoring, "George! Big news! Jake Offutt says the Traction Bunch are dissatisfied with the way Sanders, Torrey and Wing handled their last deal, and they're willing to dicker with us!"
They hired me out to live once, and I led the people they put me with such a dance, that they was glad enough to send me home again." This observation brought them to the school-house, which was but a trifling distance from the residence of Mrs. Ellis. They entered the school at the last moment of grace, and Mr. Dicker looked at them severely as they took their seats.
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