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It was quite possible, I told myself, that I had been making a bogy of my own imaginings. The Frenchman did not appear in the saloon, and, afterwards, an inquiry of the ship's doctor developed the fact that he was seriously ill, and quite unable to leave his state room. So afternoon and evening passed. There were others on board who claimed their share of the charming Mrs.
He disliked these references to the Alaculof bogy in Elsie's presence. It was enough that it should exist without being constantly paraded. Though the girl herself was the culprit, Tollemache should have left the topic alone. But Tollemache was a man of fixed ideas.
Besides, the Grey Goose never saw Bony, nor did the children, which rather spoilt the terror of him, so that the Black Captain became more effective as a Bogy with hardened offenders. The Grey Goose remembered his coming to the place perfectly. What he came for she did not pretend to know. It was all part and parcel of the war and bad times.
There are plenty of traces of such foolish attempts at playing 'bogy' in the history of savages, even of our own Teutonic forefathers; and this I suspect to be the simple explanation of the whole mare's nest.
"I don't think I be very bad," said Jan, modestly. Amabel's next questions came at short intervals, like dropping shots. "Do you say your prayers, Bogy?" "Yes, Miss." "Do you go to church, Bogy?" "Yes, Miss." "Then where do you sit?" "In the choir, Miss; the end next to Squire Ammaby's big pew." "DO YOU?" said Amabel.
He remained mischievous and malevolent, but he became childlike and very ingenuous. He became less real and, I dare say, more poetical. He entered in the artless Cycle of childish traditions. He became more like Croquemitaine,* like Père Fouettard, or the sand man who closes the children's eyes when evening comes. *The national "bugaboo" or "bogy man."
Stephens appointed him one of the chief organisers of the I.E.B. with Luby and Kickham, and he took charge of the Irish People the organ of the Fenians of 1865. It was as a subordinate contributor to this journal that Sir William Harcourt's familiar Irish bogy, O'Donovan Rossa , was arrested together with his chief, Mr.
She had quite forgotten Nurse's warning, when she came suddenly upon a figure crouched in her path, and gazing at her with large, black eyes. Her fat cheeks turned pale, and with a cry of, "It's Bogy!" she let down the whole contents of her dress into one of Jan's leaf- pictures. "Don't hurt me! Don't take me away! Please, please don't!" she cried, dancing wildly. "I won't hurt you, Miss.
Then he bent on the clewline afresh, and sung out to the Second Mate that we were ready to hoist away. "Yer'd better go down an' give 'em a 'aul," he said. "I'll sty an' light up ther syle." "Right ho, Williams," I said, getting into the rigging. "Don't let the ship's bogy run away with you." This remark I made in a moment of light-heartedness, such as will come to anyone aloft, at times.
To her parents and guardians, Amabel made the following statement: "I've seen Bogy. I like him. He doesn't sleep in the cellar, so Nurse told a story. And he didn't take me away, so that's another story. He says his prayers, and he goes to church, so he can't be the Bad Man. He makes pictures with leaves. He carried me on his back, but not in a bag"
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