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The silence was now broken by a remark from Valentine Duke irrelevant to any preceding. "Nuts are plentier at Hawley's Grove than at Crow Roost," he jerked, out, and then locked up again. "Say we go there, then," said Kit Pott. "Let's take the vote on it. Those in favor of Hawley's say aye." The ayes came storming out, as though each was bound to be the first and loudest.
Captain Pott stood the fusillade as long as his patience permitted, and then retreated to the quiet of the out-of-doors, where he dragged a box into the shade of the building, and lit his pipe. Here Elizabeth Fox found him, when she, too, felt the need of a little fresh air. "Uncle Josiah, did you ever hear anything so ridiculous? Why did you come out here?"
Newport: as will appeare hereafter. It is further said, I did much banquit and ryot. I never had but one squirrel roasted; whereof I gave part to Mr. Ratcliffe then sick: yet was that squirrel given me. I did never heate a flesh pott but when the comon pott was so used likewise. Yet how often Mr.
Pott, 'now, after all, to be treated in this way; to be reproached and insulted in the presence of a third party, and that party almost a stranger. But I will not submit to it! Goodwin, continued Mrs. Pott, raising herself in the arms of her attendant, 'my brother, the lieutenant, shall interfere. I'll be separated, Goodwin! 'It would certainly serve him right, ma'am, said Goodwin.
Not so much as a latch to his dining-room door; which saved him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room for want thereof, flung down a great bow pott that stood upon the side-table, and that fell upon some Venice glasses, and did him a crown's worth of hurt.
He was amazed to find no tears in her eyes. "I wasn't crying," she choked, drawing the corner of her handkerchief from her mouth. "It struck me so funny, Uncle Josiah!" "Your notion of fun is the funniest I ever see," he commented. "Mind telling me what it was that tickled you so?" "You! Captain Josiah Pott! Threatening to disown the minister should he fail to toe your chalk-line!
You got trapped in a bad deal, and while Adoniah was raving with a fever you took all the money there was and skipped. You was careful to ship all the blame for your dirty work on Adoniah afore you sneaked out a rich man." "Pott, that is enough. There is not a court in all this country that would believe your wild tale. Try it, and see how quickly they would lock you up in a madhouse."
Allow me, sir, to introduce you to my fellow-travellers, the other corresponding members of the club I am proud to have founded. 'I shall be delighted, said Mr. Pott. Mr. Pickwick withdrew, and returning with his friends, presented them in due form to the editor of the Eatanswill GAZETTE. 'Now, my dear Pott, said little Mr. Perker, 'the question is, what are we to do with our friends here?
To him and to no other is due the credit of being the first to show practically how to use the Encyclopedia. He has furnished a principle which is worth all the lengthy exhortations of the Times itself. Pott seems to have kept the work in his office, and to have used it for his articles in a highly ingenious fashion.
"Josiah Pott!" she said at last. "I'd think you'd be ashamed telling such things!" "It ain't nothing more than what Adoniah told, and it happened just as I spun it. You used to think what Adoniah said was all right." The minister sobered instantly. "But it ain't right defaming the dead like that." "I ain't defaming no one. Don't get mad, Clemmie. Adoniah told the yarn himself."
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