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"It is not absolutely requisite, madam," said the doctor; "but at all events he will be kept out of more mischief." "Come, my dear, you hear what Dr Middleton says." "Yes, I heard," replied Jack; "but I shan't go." "My dear Johnny come, love now do, my dear Johnny." Johnny played bob-cherry, and made no answer. "Come, Master Johnny," said Sarah. "Go away, Sarah," said Johnny, with a back-hander.
Everybody appeared excited except Master Jack Easy himself, who, with a rag round his finger, and his pinafore spotted with blood, was playing at bob-cherry, and cared nothing about the matter. "Well, what's the matter, my little man?" said Dr Middleton, on entering, addressing himself to Jack, as the most sensible of the whole party.
"It is not absolutely requisite, madam," said the Doctor; "but at all events he will be kept out of more mischief." "Come, my dear, you hear what Dr Middleton says." "Yes, I heard," replied Jack; "but I shan't go." "My dear Johnny come, love now do, my dear Johnny." Johnny played bob-cherry, and made no answer. "Come, Master Johnny," said Sarah. "Go away, Sarah," said Johnny, with a backhander.
"Oh, Dr Middleton," interrupted Mrs Easy, "he has cut his hand; I am sure that a nerve is divided, and then the lockjaw " The doctor made no reply, but examined the finger: Jack Easy continued to play bob-cherry with his right hand. "Have you such a thing as a piece of sticking-plaster in the house, madam?" observed the doctor, after examination. "Oh, yes run, Mary run, Sarah!"
Why, the east will be grey before they have sought the half of them! Yes, I will play at bob-cherry with them, hold the bait to their nose which they are never to gorge upon! I will drag a trail for them which will take them some time to puzzle out. But at what cost do I do this?" continued the old knight, interrupting his own joyous soliloquy "Oh, Absalom, Absalom, my son! my son!
While the others were going through the splendid stables and cowsheds, kept like a queen's parlour, he and the pretty girl were playing at bob-cherry in the saloon, to the scandal of Yerkes, who, with the honour of the car and the C.P.R. and Canada itself on his shoulders, could not bear that any of his charges should shuffle out of the main item in the official programme.
Everybody appeared excited except Master Jack Easy himself, who, with a rag round his finger, and his pinafore spotted with blood, was playing at bob-cherry, and cared nothing about the matter. "Well, what's the matter, my little man?" said Dr Middleton, on entering, addressing himself to Jack, as the most sensible of the whole party.
"Oh, Dr Middleton," interrupted Mrs Easy, "he has cut his hand; I'm sure that a nerve is divided, and then the lock-jaw " The Doctor made no reply, but examined the finger: Jack Easy continued to play bob-cherry with his right hand. "Have you such a thing as a piece of sticking-plaster in the house, madam?" observed the Doctor, after examination. "O yes: run, Mary, run, Sarah!"
With money and a wife to take care of it, mind you you are pre-eminently the man for which you want to be recognized. Without it Harry 'll excuse me, I must speak plainly you're a sort of a spectacle of a bob-cherry, down on your luck, up on your luck, and getting dead stale and never bitten; a familiar curiosity'
Fronting a creature that would vainly assail him, and temporarily escape impalement by bounding and springing, dodging and backing, now here now there, like a dangling bob-cherry, his military gorge rose with a sickness of disgust.
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