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A few minutes made up for an unfair start, and gave each dog his right place. Welly, at the head, seemed almost to skim over the bushes, and after him came Fanny, Feliciana, Childers, and the other fleet ones, the spaniels and terriers; and then, behind, followed the heavy corps, bull-dogs, &c., for we had every breed.
Bud then th' best o' men mak' mistakes o'er th' women they wed. 'Yi; they say luv's gawmless; but aw welly think Mr. Penrose knows what he's abaat. 'Th' Lord help him, if he doesn't! They say a mon hes to ax his wife if he's to live. 'Aw yerd Amos say t'other day, faither, that a chap hed to live thirty year wi' a woman afore he know'd he were wed.
For as for them furrin churches as Sir Cristifer is so unaccountable mad after, wi' pictures o' men an' women a-showing themselves just for all the world as God made 'em. I think, for my part, as it's welly a sin to go into 'em. 'You're likely to have more foreigners, however, said Mr.
He was cooking his supper, squatting over the fire, with an old frying-pan containing something that looked very like dried worms frizzling in fat. "Welly good" he told us it was; and very good he seemed to be making it, as he added slice after slice of cucumber to the mixture.
Was he not soaring far above theologies and domesticities, over continents traversed only by memory, amid ideals seen only with the eye of hope? But a woman's voice! what is there it cannot shatter and dispel? 'Enoch! Enoch! dun yo' yer? Doesto see th' parson? 'No, lass, I doan't, said he, taking the flute from his lips. 'I welly think he's forgetten us this time, Enoch.
Yes, he, the feeble, mild, almost girlish-looking lad, had once been a merry, happy rogue, and as such often cuffed by Mrs. Dixon, the very Mrs. Dixon who now stood gazing with the tears in her eyes. Could she, in sight of him, the changed, the fading, keep up a quarrel with his mother? "How long hast thou been here?" asked Dixon. "Welly on for all day," answered Libbie.
The Chinaman came running out with uplifted hands. "Oh, Mr Loberts, Mr Loberts, you no splittee me wood, you too much welly kind gentleman, you no splittee me wood!" So things change, but I split him a barrow load all the same. I was sorry to leave the ranch and go back to San Francisco, where nine men out of ten in all degrees of society are much too disagreeable for words.
"But I getten welly over it at last, an' we was beginnin' to come round a bit an' look forrard to th' toime we'd see him agen 'stead o' luokin' back to th' toime we shut th' round bit of a face under th' coffin-lid. Th' day comn when we could bear to talk about him an' moind things he'd said an' tried to say i' his broken babby way.
I could welly caant um o' on both mi hands. 'It seems to me yo' want to mak' saints as scarce as white crows, said Abraham Lord. 'Nay, Abram; we want to keep th' black 'uns aat o' th' nests. 'Then yo' mud as weel fell th' rookery, was Abraham's sharp retort, which called forth a hearty laugh.
'Welly much bad Joss! answered the Celestial composedly. 'Let um earth shake-shake, all sem this, knockum poo' Chinaman's house down. A favourite way of tormenting the Chows was to rob them of their pigtails. A Mongolian's pride in his pigtail is very great, and his grief over the loss of it seems to be tinged with a superstitious fear.
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