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"Take it a bit easy now, sir. You'll 'ave it 'ard enough over there," he used to say to one and another. At eleven o'clock one of the Kansas men came to tell Claude that his Corporal was going fast. Big Tannhauser's fever had left him, but so had everything else. He lay in a stupor. His congested eyeballs were rolled back in his head and only the yellowish whites were visible.
"'Ow you could ever 'ave thought you 'ad a chance, Bob, I don't know, ses Henery Walker. "'Ow's the toad, Bob? ses Bill Chambers; and then they all laughed. "'Laugh away, mates, ses Bob; 'I know you don't mean it. The on'y thing I'm sorry for is you can't all 'ave the gold watch, and I'm sure you've worked 'ard enough for it; keeping Henery Walker's kittens for 'im, and hanging round Mr.
And when the old man saw him up there, holding his poor bursting head in his hands, and said: "'Ead achin' my boy, again? That comes of studyin' too 'ard!" he thought with a touch of compunction, "What would he say if he knew I'd gone drunk to bed last night? And if he knew about Poppy?" Isaac approached his son gingerly and with a certain fear.
"Beats 'im?" asked Tilda, and suddenly, still erect on her chair and looking down on the woman, felt her courage flowing back full and strong. "He's a beast, then." "You musn' talk like that," said the woman hurriedly, with a glance back at the half-open door. "Hut he's 'ard if you cross 'im an' the child's pay bein' be'ind 'and " "What's your name?" demanded Tilda. "Sarah 'Uggins."
Any sort of a check, and back they all comes an' looks at me, wi' their 'eads a one side, and their sterns agoin' like this," he wagged a stubby fore-finger to and fro in so precisely the right rhythm, that, stubby as it was, no magic wand could evolve more instantly the scene to be presented; "an' that's 'ow it'd be, th' old 'ounds workin' 'ard, and the young uns lookin' like they 'as nothin' to do only admire of me!"
I told 'im so one day, and arter that we knew where we was. Both of us. "By rights he ought to 'ave left the office at six just my time for coming on. As it was, he used to stay late, purtending to work 'ard so as to get a rise. Arter all the clerks 'ad gorn 'ome he used to sit perched up on a stool yards too 'igh for him, with one eye on the ledger and the other looking through the winder at me.
Old Isaac was asleep in 'is bed, and when they woke 'im up and said that they was going to take charge of their money themselves 'e kept dropping off to sleep agin and snoring that 'ard they could scarcely hear themselves speak. Then Peter tipped Ginger a wink and pointed to Isaac's trousers, which were 'anging over the foot of the bed.
I'm a gardener, I am; not a blood-'ound." But Mr. Marrapit had passed on. "Damn 'ard," Mr. Fletcher repeated; drew the snail from his pocket; plunged to consolation. A short distance down the garden Mr. Marrapit himself discovered the source of the smell that had offended him.
"Oh, it's 'ard! it's 'ard! . . . And me sittin' here calcilatin' eggs an' milk domestic-like and thinkin' what bliss . . . But you don't understand. O' course you don't. Why should you?" Tilda placed her hands behind her back, eyed him for half-a-minute, and sagely nodded. "Well, I never!" she said. "Oh, my goodness gracious mercy me!" "I can't think what you 're referrin' to," stammered Mr.
"I see you ain't got the money on you now, and I don't want to be too 'ard on you. I'll give you a chance. I'll give you till Saturday to turn it over. My advice is to borrow from Mr. Acting. He'll lend it you, I should think; anyhow, I can't stand shilly-shallying here all night, no more than I can stand the loss of that grand gun, so I'm off.
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