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'Twould be as bad as Barnum losing the giraffe." The occupants of the first boat were evidently of the captain's own mind, for they were eagerly peering over her side, and into the water. Suddenly the pilot dropped his glass, extemporized a. trumpet with both hands, and shouted: "Forrard forrard! One of 'em's up!"
Both of 'em's been eddicated at some Injun school which the gov'ment allers buckin' the impossible, the gov'ment is, upholds in its vain endeavours to turn red into white an' make folks of a savage. "Bloojacket is down from the Bad Land country himself not long prior, bein' he's been servin' his Great Father as one of Gen'ral Crook's scouts in the Sittin' Bull campaign.
"Jest because yu' happen to come from Vermont," continued Mr. McLean, "is no cause for extra pride. Shoo! I was raised in Massachusetts myself, and big men have been raised there, too, Daniel Webster and Israel Putnam: and a lot of them politicians." "Virginia is a good little old state," observed the Southerner. "Both of 'em's a sight ahead of Vermont.
"Why, thee poor dear bairns!" said Mrs Benson; "come in, and sit thee down. Why, one of 'em's Squire Inglis's Philip, John," she continued to her husband, "and here they be ammost bet out." Mrs Benson could talk, but she could act as well, and she soon had the two lads upon the snug "keeping-room" sofa. "Bless thou, my poor bairns!" she exclaimed; and then in a breath to her husband.
Brink grinned faintly, but he said pleasantly: "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." "He jams down the accelerator and rams a telephone pole," pursued Fitzgerald. "There's four hoods in that car, remember, and every one of 'em's got a police record you could paper a house with. And they've got four sawed-off shotguns and a tommy-gun in the back seat. They're all laid out cold when the cops arrive."
One of 'em's snagged on something below, I guess. Here! hold the rod a minute, Yorkey!" The latter complied. George unbuttoned and threw off his stable-jacket and began taking off his boots. Yorke contemplated his comrade's actions in speechless amazement. "Why, what the devil? " he began
"My chycest gravy soup, ar lar prin temps" said cook bitterly, "and filly de sole mater de hotel. One might just as well be cutting chaff for horses. I don't see any use in toiling and moiling over the things as I do. Mr Landon's just as bad as master, every bit. I don't believe either of 'em's got a bit o' taste. Hot as everything was, too!" "Spesherly the plates," said Sam solemnly.
He said they were ez green ez frogs, an' didn't know nothin' noway, an' fer me to take keer uv 'em. He don't reckon they'll come tell to-morrow. One uv 'em's a hoss-doctor, an' t'other's a perfessor uv religion, Colonel Bangem telled me. I dunno whether the feller's a circuit-rider er a rale preacher."
The captain an' two or three of the boat's folks tries to herd her into the women's cabin; but she withers 'em with a look, breshes 'em aside, an' stampedes along in among the men-people like I explains. About forty of 'em's smokin'; an' as tobacco is a fav'rite weakness of the tribe of Sterett, my grandfather is smokin' too.
"Well, sir," he replied, "as we told Mr Howard, a few minutes ago, we can't make much out of 'em as yet; they'm too far off for that. But I've got pretty good eyes, Mr Delamere, and I think when you brings that glass o' yours to bear on 'em that you'll find one on 'em's got her r'yals stowed, while t'other has hers set.
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