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"Splash!" echoed Archie with a grim laugh. "She's gane a' into jaups. She maun hae thocht she was a juck-pool. I would like to dee like a Christian when I dee, and no' shuffle oot like a scattered explosion, or a humplick o' mince." "Oh, for Heaven's sake shut your mooth, an' let us get her gathered up an' get oot o' here. Dammit, hae ye nae common sense, swearin' an' jokin' about sic a thing!
"I'm pretty sure it couldn't be done in much less than six months; workin' hard all day, and makin' allowance for only one hour off for dinner." "You're all wrong, shipmates," said Fred Borders. "That young doctor told me that if they'd begun work at the day of creation they would only have just finished the job last year!" "Oh! gammon, you're jokin'," cried Bill Blunt.
"`I wonder whether there's a shark come for him, as well as for the second mate, says one of the men, jokin' like. `Run aft, steward, says he, `and look over the taffrail, and see. "The steward did as he was told; and presently he comes for'ard again, as white as a ghost; and: "`There's two of 'em now, says he.
"Well!" she exclaimed; "WELL! if that ain't if that don't beat all that ever I heard! Here I leave my work to do folks favors, to fetch and carry for 'em, and this is what I get. Cap'n Dott, I want you to understand that I ain't dependent on nobody for a job. I don't HAVE to slave myself to death for nobody. If you ain't satisfied " "There, there, Zuba! I was only jokin'. Don't get mad!" "Mad!
But, of co'se, she was jokin' about that. Poor little thing, she ain't never got over the way folks run her about that side-saddle she give me last Christmus, though I never did see anything out o' the way in it.
But I'm too old for that kind o' jokin'. Alice, where's Dick? How long'll it be before he's here? Where did he leave you? 'Now do just sit down, mother; here, in this chair. Just sit quiet for a little, do. Mrs. Mutimer pushed aside the girl's hand; her face had become grave again. 'Let me be, child. And I tell you I have seen Emma to-day.
He roared, as, perhaps, he had never roared before: "Are ye all gone mad-mad-mad? I was jokin' wid ye, whin I called ye this or that.
Said Roger carelessly, "I was going to hang him. But I can afford to stretch a point now. Carry the cur to the gate and fling him outside." "Dang it all, Mr. Stephen," spoke up Nat; "you may be master in your own house, but I reckon Hick and I didn' come here for our own pleasure, and I see no sport in jokin' a lad till you've scared 'en pretty well out of his five senses.
"Angie!" sniffed Mr. Tidditt. "Stop your jokin', Bailey. This is a serious matter." "I wan't jokin'. What " "There! there! boys," interrupted the captain; "don't fight. Bailey didn't mean to joke, Ase; he's full of what the papers call 'unconscious humor. I'll give in that Angie is about as serious a matter as I can think of without settin' down to rest.
A red flash a dartin' through the air, and a disappearin' down the long glitterin' lane of light. You could see her a goin' back, so they said, a laughin' and a jokin' with somebody, if so be she walked back, but there wuz long sleighs to carry 'em back, them and their Toboggens, if they wanted to ride, at the small expenditure of 10 cents apiece.
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