[Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson]@TWC D-Link bookAustralia Felix CHAPTER IV 13/19
There's something OF Till there is, and she's always on for a lark.
I never met such girls for larks as her and 'er sister.
The very last time I was there, they took and hung up ...
me and some other fellers had been stoppin' up a bit late the night before, and kickin' up a bit of a shindy, and what did those girls do? They got the barman to come into my room while I was asleep, and hang a bucket o' water to one of the beams over the bed.
Then I'm blamed if they didn't tie a string from it to my big toe! I gives a kick, down comes the bucket and half drowns me.-- Gosh, how those girls did laugh!" "H'm!" said Mahony dubiously; while Purdy in his turn chewed the cud of a pleasant memory.--"Well, I for my part should be glad to see you married and settled, with a good wife always beside you." "That's just the rub," said Purdy, and vigorously scratched his head. "Till's a first-class girl as a sweetheart and all that; but when I come to think of puttin' my head in the noose, from now till doomsday--why then, somehow, I can't bring myself to pop the question." "There's going to be no trifling with the girl's feelings, I hope, sir ?" "Bosh! But I say, Dick, I wish you'd turn your peepers on 'er and tell me what you make of 'er.
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