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"'Then the snake vanished, seeming to wriggle down the left bottom bed-post, and I woke up in a cold sweat, my lord, and did what it had told me. "Those were his very words, Quatermain, for I wrote them down afterwards while they were fresh in my memory, and you see here they are in my pocket-book.
It was a strange party, as the boy could not help noting at the moment, the maid standing on the bed, hugging the bed-post, and staring with frightened eyes; Roger snoring on the table, just under the sleeping hen on the beam; and the three children perched on the top of a high chest of drawers.
"No, the great thing," said the practical governor, "is to be sure and wake up in season." "That's so," chimed several voices in chorus. "How shall we fix it?" asked Pip. "Tie your toe to the bed-post," said some one. "Put a lot of stones in your bed," said Sid, "and then you can't sleep easy." "Two sleep together and tie their toes to one another," said the governor.
'A very rascally newspaper, said I. Disturbed slumbers The bed-post Two wizards What can I do? Real library The Rev. Mr. Platitude Toleration to Dissenters Paradox Sword of St. Peter Enemy to humbug High principles False concord The damsel What religion? Further conversation That would never do! May you prosper. During the greater part of that night my slumbers were disturbed by strange dreams.
"Thanks be the Lord! it's the same man too! and a baby over the bed-post," she appended seriously. "Strange," Berry declared it to be, "strange I feel none o' this to my Berry now. All my feelin's o' love seem t'ave gone into you two sweet chicks."
"Ah, Sir, all very well to say so; but, between you and me and the bed-post young master's quarrelled with old master old master won't give him a rap, so I'm sure, since your honour's a friend to every man who requires your assistance noble saying, Sir! you won't refuse us a few guineas; and as for your bill why " "Sir, you're an impudent vagabond!" cried the Doctor, as red as a rose-draught, and flinging out of the room; "and I warn you, that I shall bring in my bill, and expect to be paid within ten minutes."
Years ago, when life presented possibilities, I thought that with pains and intelligence I might become one. I never succeeded. It all depends on being able to tie a bow. Round the bed-post, or the neck of the water-jug, I could tie the wretched thing to perfection. If only the bed-post or the water-jug could have taken my place and gone to the party instead of me, life would have been simpler.
Would 'ee mind catchin' hold o' the bed-post to give yoursel' fortitude? Now let me cast about how to break it softly. First, then, you must know he's not dead at all " "Who is not?" "Your allotted husband, miss Mister Zeb." "Why, who in the world said he was?"
At this moment, however, appeared the form of the gardener coming across the lawn. The tale was soon told; the house had been robbed the old woman at morning found gagged and fastened to her bed-post Alice flown. A magistrate had been applied to, suspicion fell upon the fugitive. None knew anything of her origin or name, not even the old woman.
There he was divided between fear of burglars, if he slept on the first floor, and of fire if he slept on the second. He compromised by sleeping on the second, with a sufficient length of stout, knotted muslin stowed away in his trunk, to be attached to the bed-post and reach the ground in case of a conflagration.
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