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"There's too many bloomin' shadders about this 'ere packet; they gets onter yer nerves like nothin' as ever I seen before in me nat'ral." He blurted it all out in a heap, and I turned round and looked at him. "Too many shadows!" I said. "What on earth do you mean?" But he refused to explain himself or tell me anything further just shook his head, stupidly, when I questioned him.
Make money on me? That ain't no fourteen words. That's nine words." "It is, hey?" the operator rejoined. "Quit yer kiddin'. Dat's fourteen words. Ditto marks don't go, see?" "You're a fresh young feller," said Abe, paying over fifty-four cents, "and I got a good mind to report you to the head office." The operator laughed raucously. "G'wan!" he said. "Beat it, or I'll sick de cops onter yer.
"And what's these yer doin's now, John? and me a slavin' to send ye to school?" Thus appealed to, Johnny looked for a reply at his feet, at his arm, and at the kettle. Then he said: "I ain't done nothin', but he" indicating Staples "hez been nigh onter pullin' off my arm." "It's now almost a week ago," continued Mr.
"Bre'er Nimbus," said Eliab solemnly, "you gib me your word you git all dis money honestly?" "Co'se I did. Yer don't s'pose Nimbus am a-gwine ter turn thief at dis day, does yer?" "How you get it?" asked Eliab sternly. "How I git it?" answered the other indignantly. "You see dem clo'es? Hain't I been a-sojerin' nigh onter two year now? Hain't I hed pay an' bounty, an' rations too?
I don't mind that at all, but him an' his mates git flood-bound for near a week, an' broach more kegs, an' go on a howlin' spree in ther mud, an' spill mor'n they swipe, an' leave a tarpaulin off a load, an' the flour gets wet, an' the sugar runs out of the bags like syrup, an' What's a feller ter do? Do yer expect me to set the law onter Jimmy?
"By Jupe, thet's great!" cried Peggy admiringly. "Skim, ye're a wonder!" "Ma allus said I were good fer somethin', but she couldn't tell what." "It's story-writin'," declared Peggy "Say, Skim, I put ye onter this deal; don't I git a rake-off on thet fifty dollars?" "Not a cent!" said Skim indignantly. "Ye didn't tell me to write a story; I said myself as I could do it.
"I say ye do!" said Captain Pharo, waxing more and more wroth; "ye sets some feller t' work there, 't never see salt water, t' make our laws for us; 'lows us to ketch all the spawn lobsters and puts injunctions onter the little ones: like takin' people when they gits to be sixteen or twenty year old, 'n' choppin' their heads off yer race is goin' to multiply almighty fast, ain't it?"
She'd been down for four days and hadn't moved, when one mornin' I dumped some wheaten chaff we had a few bags that Spicer brought home I dumped it in front of her nose, an' would yer b'lieve me, Mrs Wilson? she stumbled onter her feet an' chased me all the way to the house! I had to pick up me skirts an' run! Wasn't it redic'lus?
"Well, young mistis, I gettin 'po'ful ole en I al'ays yeared on spooks sence I kin reckermember. I neber seed one fer sho, but I'se had strange 'sper'ences o' nights, en dar's dem w'at sez dey has seen de sperets ob de 'parted. I dunno. Dere's sump'n in folk's buzzums dat takes on quar sometimes, ez ef we libin' mighty close onter a worl' we kyant mos' al'ays see.
"I callate thar's suthin in the mountain air changes men," said Peleg, "fer it's sartain we be more like the Green Mounting boys in aour noshins an ways an we be like the Bosting chaps." "I'd be in favor o' jinin onter Vairmount, an mebbe that'll be the upshot on't all," observed Ezra Phelps.
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