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Better rew sit, nor rew flie. Better spare at the breird nor at the bottome. Better finger off, nor ay warking. Bind the seck ere it be full. Better be well loved, nor ill won geir. Better a clout nor a hole out. Better no ring, nor the ring of a rash. Butter and burn-trouts gar maidens f the wind. Better held out nor put out. Better have a Mouse in the pot as no flesh.
At the time of their first flight, had they succeeded in reaching the plain above, they would surely have been seen and pursued; though with superior swiftness of foot they might still have escaped. Once more they faced upward, by the slope of the ravine yet untried. On passing it, Walt laid hold of his "clout," as he called it, and replaced it, turban fashion, on his head.
Thus the people talked among themselves, until at last it reached even the Sheriff's ears. And now each man stepped forward and shot in turn; but though each shot well, Little John was the best of all, for three times he struck the clout, and once only the length of a barleycorn from the center.
'You are doing your son's client little good by this! And when she had slowly and grudgingly made way for him to enter, and the door was shut behind him, 'Where is she? he asked almost savagely. 'Take me to her! The old dame muttered something unintelligible. Then, 'She's in the back part, she said, 'but she'll not wish to see you. Don't blame me if she pins a clout to your skirts.
She was pressed against bony ribs; a rough arm squeezed her wretchedly; long, poky fingers tortured her flank; her legs draggled dismally. She voiced protest in a plaintive, piercing, long- drawn "Mi-aow!" Clout! Ah, Rose! Pretty, foolish Rose as our older school again would have written why did you entertain sensuous dreams when you should have been stirring? "Mi-aow!" Clout! Too late, Rose!
"Well, keep a good tight grip of him, anyhow, for if he gave you the slip in there he'd vanish like a weasel in a bush. Them old fellows do be slippery customers. Look here, mister," said he to the Philosopher, "if you try to run away from us I'll give you a clout on the head with my baton; do you mind me now!"
At that moment, craning his neck to a greater stretch, so as to command a better view of what lay below, his eye caught sight of an object that elicited an exclamation of surprise. "Darn it," he said, "thar's my old clout lyin' down thar on the rocks." It was the red kerchief he had plucked from his head to put the pursuers on the wrong track.
"Me jewel, forbear," shouted Donovan; "a clout on the head is the only answer for them Constitutionals. Niver will it go out of my mind about the time I was last in Cark; shure, thin, and it was holiday-time; and me sister's wife's cousin, young Tim O'Brady Tim says to me, 'Now, Corkoran, me lad "
Then Face-of-god bade his men abide hidden under the bushes and stole forward quietly up the further bank of the hollow, his target on his arm and his spear poised. When he was behind the last bush on the top of the bent he was within half a spear-cast of the water and the man; so he looked on him and saw that he was quite naked except for a clout about his middle.
He gave one or two of our badly-aiming huntsmen a clout on the head which sent them flying, stripped the skin from the head of one of the beaters and then took refuge in the wilderness.
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