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For I'm pretty sure the father was that hulking bull-terrier of Will Baker's wasn't he now, eh, you sly hussy?" "But where's the use of talking to a woman with babbies?" continued Bartle. "She's got no conscience no conscience; it's all run to milk." Going to the Birthday Feast
"Now, then, my boy, draw up, draw up. We'll not talk about business till we've had our supper. No man can be wise on an empty stomach. But," said Bartle, rising from his chair again, "I must give Vixen her supper too, confound her! Though she'll do nothing with it but nourish those unnecessary babbies.
Bisness first, pleasure artervards, as King Richard the Third said ven he stabbed the tother king in the Tower, afore he murdered the babbies. I have long suspected that oysters have a rheumatic tendency. Their feet are always wet; and so much damp company in a man's inside cannot contribute to his peace.
But the fact is, you're all wrong there, Jack, its the babbies I likes I likes to see them both together, hanging at the niggers' breasts, I always think of two spider-monkeys nursing two kittens." "I knows the women, but I never knows the children. It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other; ain't it, Bill?" "Yes; like two bright bullets out of the same mould.
"So I calls a cutter away, and rowed aboord the San Josef, the men blubberin like a pack o babbies, to break it to Nelson. Like twins, them two, Nelson and your father: that like, ye see! "Well, there was the Commodore on the Don's quarter-deck, Berry beside him, the Spanish Captain afoor him, and behind him a British Jack-Tar tuckin the Spaniards' swords under his arm like so many umberellas.
"How strange," said Tottie, "that you and I should both have had bybies to nuss w'en we was young, ain't it?" "It is, Tot very remarkable. And we've had a sad fate, both of us, in havin' bin wrenched from our babbies. But the wrench couldn't have bin so bad in your case as in mine, of course, for your babby was nobody to you, whereas mine was a full cousin, an' such a dear one too.
"Now, friends, let's all go home and git our suppers. If you're so tired as I be you'll need 'em. Come, Lucy, the babbies are fretting, and there's Tilly tryin' to git to us. Come on!" The crowd, laughing and crying, parted to let them through, Joyce and George, still quite dazed, staring with the rest. Camille's voice aroused them. "Did you ever see anything so matter-of-fact!
"And so must my poor babbies," said Jones. "As to work, I ain't fit for it." But he was soon interrupted, and made to understand that he might think himself lucky if he were not made to disgorge that which he already possessed. As to Mr. Brown, the creditors with much generosity agreed that an annuity of 20s. a week should be purchased for him out of the proceeds of the sale.
"There's Father a-standing at the yard-gate," said Martin Poyser. "I reckon he wants to watch us down the field. It's wonderful what sight he has, and him turned seventy-five." "Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies," said Mrs. Poyser; "they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at.
How are Hannah and those wonderful twins?" "Fine, sir; fine, thank Heaven! Miss Claudia was so good as to send word as how she would come to see Hannah as soon as she was able to see company. Now Hannah is able to-day, sir, and would be proud to see Miss Claudia and to show her the babbies." "Very well, Gray! I will let my daughter know," said the judge, rising from his chair.
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