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It's a shame, to my mind, that a snapping crab-stick like that old Bates should have it all." He rose as with the irritation of the idea, but appeared arrested as he looked down at the dead man.
So saying, he wrested the Jew's crab-stick from him, laid hold of it at each end, and snapped it in two across the railing of the box; adding with infinite composure of countenance 'This is an improper plaything for you, master Jackey, and you might do yourself a damage with it. Here is half a crown for you.
Thus saying, the old man seized his crab-stick, a knotty club, that had been seasoned in a thousand smokes, and toughened by the use of twenty years. His wife caught up her bonnet and hurried with the widow Hinkley in his train. Meanwhile, by cross-examining the child, Mr.
With these words, he flung the crab-stick into the lake, old Hinkley regarding him with looks in which it was difficult to say whether mortification or fury had preponderance. "Go," he continued "your son lives; but it is God's mercy, and none of yours, which has spared his life.
"Yes, yes, that would just do; and he could put on his father's old mantle, and bring a stout crab-stick along with him." Hic. "All right, young friend; but how was he to get into the castle garden? Was there not a drawbridge which was lifted every night?" Hic.
'Unluckily in a quarrel, he tells you gravely, 'I ran a crab-stick into a woman's eye'; and well did he deserve his sojourn in the New Prison.
Hunt went to inspect his barns, and was graciously pleased to express his high approbation of the ingenious mode of laying the crab-stick on upon the sheaves of wheat. On Wednesday, Mr. Hunt gave audience to several tax-gatherers, to whose importunities he did not listen with an overstock of complacency. And so on, day after day. Why should I despair of this, after what I have seen?
Old Hinkley did not bite the dust, but the latter part of his skull most effectually butted it; and had not his head been quite as tough as his crab-stick, the hurt might have been quite as severe as that which the latter had inflicted on the son. The latter lay as perfectly quiet as if all had been over with him. So much so, that the impression became very general that such was the case.
I see how it is; this great girl is like Jack Ranger; she wants to get you into a scrape, that you may be marked as well as herself! But I'll defend you, never fear! It is not a crab-stick that can frighten me! Come with me, and see who dares to hinder us!" He now caught her hand, and tried to draw her from her companion. "You shall not go with her, against your mind, were she as big as Hercules!
He had a flattish, perhaps, it should be called, a flattened nose, and a brown, leathern-looking hide, that seemed as if it had not unfrequently undergone the process of tanning. Under his arm he carried a thick, knotted crab-stick. The above description of the great Figg, by the prize-fighting swains Sole monarch acknowledged of Mary'bone plains
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