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After travelling about twenty miles, the scene gradually opens, and one begins to dream about Vasco Nunez and the enthusiastic first explorers of the Isthmus; but my first view of the Pacific was through a drenching shower of rain, that wet me to the skin, and rather kept my imagination under, for this said imagination of mine is like a barn door chuckey brisk and crouse enough when the sun shines, and the sky is blue, and plenty of grub at hand, but I can't write poetry when I am could, and hungry, and drooked.
The night passed on and grew colder, and the wind came across the ice-blocked river with shriller, sharper blasts, but Guido did not hear it. "Chuckey" Martin, who blacked boots in front of the corner saloon in summer and swept out the bar-room in winter, came out through the family entrance and dumped a pan of hot ashes into the snow-bank, and then turned into the house with a shiver.
'I don't know what mayn't be the matter! cried Miss Miggs, clasping her hands distractedly. 'Anything may be the matter! 'But nothing is, I tell you, said the hangman. 'First stop that noise and come and sit down here, will you, chuckey?
"Well, you know he's been pretty civil since he came, and he's backed us up in that row about Bickers, you know. We thought we'd get him a ring, you know. He's spoons on my sister Daisy, and Dig and I thought it would fetch him if we stuck `Chuckey' that's the pet name he calls her on it. Don't you think it would be a good dodge?
"Well keep it dark, you know. Shut up, Dig, and don't make me laugh, I say there's such a grand joke about him." "Out with it," said the guests, who were beginning to think again about the herrings. "Well, this fellow I call him Marky, you know Mark's engaged to my sister, and " "Ha ha ha!" chimed in Dig. "And he calls her `Chuckey, I heard him. Oh, my wig!"
It wanted a very few dropping and facetious introductions on the way, such as, "Daisy, you know, my sister," or "What cheer, Sherry? ever hear of Chuckey?" or, "No good, Maple, my boy, bespoke!" to set the rumour going that Daisy Herapath, Marky's "spoon," was come, and was "on show" in Herapath's study.
"Married!" he would reply, scornfully, "fiddlesticks! I tell you there's nothing in it all jaw! Who told you they were going to be married?" From utterances like these an impression got abroad in some quarters that Railsford wanted to marry "Chuckey," but "Chuckey" wouldn't have him. So the last end of the story was worse than the first.
"Out of it, all of you. You can tell 'em, Dig." Dig composed his features once or twice to utter the word, but as many times broke down. At last in high falsetto he got it out, "Chuckey!" The laugh which greeted this revelation penetrated to the upper region, and caused Dr Ponsford to rise on his seat and look in the direction of the uproar.
"And what particular reason have you for getting Mr Chuckey a testimonial?" "Ha, ha!" said Arthur, who felt bound to laugh at the senior's joke. "Jolly good name for him. Oh, some of the fellows think he's backed us up, you know, about Bickers and all that. Thanks awfully for the sixpence, Felgate. I'll be sure and stick your name at the top of the list. I say, when's that trial adjourned to?"
"Chuckey" Martin felt a sense of proprietorship in Guido, by the right of discovery, and resented this, pushing them away, and protesting that the thing to do was to rub his feet with snow.
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