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Updated: June 2, 2025
Here have we them both, the wet Quaker and the dry one. 'Hang up the wet Quaker to dry, and wet the dry one with a ducking, answered another voice. 'Where is the sea-otter, John Davies, that destroyed more fish than any sealch upon Ailsa Craig? exclaimed a third voice. 'I have an old crow to pluck with him, and a pock to put the feathers in.
Higgins dipped his hand overboard and sprinkled water on the Indian's head. "I hereby christen you Willy High Pockets. And may they never be empty." An awful contortion took place upon the Seminole's mahogany features. He was trying to grin. "You give good Seminole why-o-me," he said, ceasing his paddling to rub his stomach. "Willy Tiger " "High Pockets!" "Willy High Pock' sick.
"Meal-pock!" returned Grizzie with contempt: "what neist!" He made another movement to seize the bag, but she caught the sprutle from the empty porridge-pot and showed fight with it, in genuine earnest beyond a doubt for the defence of her pock. Whatever the secret was, it looked as if the pock were somehow connected with it. Cosmo began to grow very uncomfortable.
"And I'd like to see four thousand acres in potatoes." "And we will," Billy rejoined with great positiveness. "It's us for the San Joaquin. We don't know what's in our country. No wonder we're out on the stoop." "You'll find lots of kings up there," Gunston related. "Yep Hong Lee they call him 'Big Jim, and Ah Pock, and Ah Whang, and then there's Shima, the Japanese potato king.
Through the star-spangled red he glimpsed her once where the hair swept off her brow, and for the moment, to his blurred craziness, it was as if through the red her brow was shotted with little scars and pock marks from glass, and a hot surge of unaccountable sickness fanned the enormous silence of his rage.
He lay back at full stretch over the sharp rocks, cramming the scribbled note and pencil into a pock his hat. His hat down on his eyes. That is Kevin Egan's movement I made, nodding for his nap, sabbath sleep. Et vidit Deus. Et erant valde bona. Alo! Bonjour. Welcome as the flowers in May. Under its leaf he watched through peacocktwittering lashes the southing sun.
"Grizzie," said Cosmo, "I ken ye did a' for the best, an' maybe it was the best. The day may come, Grizzie, whan we'll gang thegither to ca' upo' them 'at pat the meal i' yer pock, an' return them thanks for their kin'ness." "Eh, na, sir! That wad never du! What for sud they ken onything aboot it!
They said: pick, pack, pock, puck: little drops of water in a fountain slowly falling in the brimming bowl. Athy, who had been silent, said quietly: You are all wrong. All turned towards him eagerly. Why? Do you know? Who told you? Tell us, Athy. Athy pointed across the playground to where Simon Moonan was walking by himself kicking a stone before him. Ask him, he said.
He tould me this mornin' that he'd suffer to have the pock agin, set in case he was cured wid the same bottle." "Well, the Heaven be praised, any how, that we have a son for the half-acre, Sheelah. "Amin! An' let us take good care of him, now that he's spared to us." Phelim's appetite, after his recovery, was anything but a joke to his father.
"If he hadna a pock o' peppermints but it wesna that wiled Elsie's hert. Na, na, dogs and bairns can read fouks' faces, and mak nae mistakes. As sune as a' saw Lachlan's een a' kent he wes a new man. "Hoo has it come about? That's easy tae guess. Sax months syne Lachlan didna ken what father meant, and the heart wes wizened in the breist o' him wi' pride an' diveenity.
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