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Ann was ready to cry, and Rudolf had drawn his sword with the intention of doing his best to protect her, when at that moment a new voice was heard. Looking in at the little window over the top of the red geranium the children saw a good-humored furry face with long bristly whiskers and bright twinkly eyes.
Here is M. Formery!" said the inspector cheerfully. "Now we can get on." The examining magistrate came into the room. He was a plump and pink little man, with very bright eyes. His bristly hair stood up straight all over his head, giving it the appearance of a broad, dapple-grey clothes-brush.
From the battle, victory upsprings! Hearken to the trump's exulting song! Ye are worshipped by the shouting throng! Rouse ye, then, ye kings! Seven sleepers! to the clarion hark! How it rings, and how the fierce dogs bark! Shouts from out a thousand barrels whizz; Eager steeds are neighing for the wood, Soon the bristly boar rolls in his blood, Yours the triumph is! But what now?
As he ended speaking, a medium sized man, with a pasty white, freckled complexion, bristly red hair, a retreating forehead and small, sharp eyes, came forward from the dark corner near the door.
They were about the size of small hogs very much of the same build and covered with a thin sandy bristly hair, just like some hogs are. They were not "pig-headed," however. Their heads were exactly like those of the grey rabbit, and instead of hoofs they were toed and clawed.
It certainly bears some resemblance to a pig about the snout and cheeks; and that, with its bristly hair and burrowing habits, has no doubt given rise to the mistaken name. The "ground" part of the title is from the fact that it is a burrowing animal, indeed, one of the best "terriers" in the world. It can make its way under ground, faster than the spade can follow it, and faster than any badger.
I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiff-bearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated.
Old men, young men, and boys, all on their rough-coated horses, and how they came indoors, and what a noise they made all talking together in their big deep voices. They looked terrible men, so tall and brown and fierce, with their rough bristly beards; and they all spoke in such funny tones to her, as if they were trying to make their voices small.
And then, again, how avoid accepting? Fear seized on every one when he knit his bristly brows, and gave a sidelong glance which might send your feet, God knows whither: but if you accept, then the next night some fiend from the swamp, with horns on his head, comes to call, and begins to squeeze your neck, when there is a string of beads upon it; or bite your finger, if there is a ring upon it; or drag you by the hair, if ribbons are braided in it.
It suddenly occurred to me that the situation was humorous. "You will have to produce your references, gentlemen, before I can discuss anything with you," I said, after swallowing very hard. They stared. "Good Lord!" gasped the bristly one, blinking his eyes. "Don't you know who this gentleman is? You you appear to be an American. You must know Mr. Riley-Werkheimer of New York."
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