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They entertain but lukewarm feelings for any other; they are adherents of neither the Bonapartist nor Orleanist pretenders, nor do they care a straw for the charlatan hero of the crutch and blue spectacles: their only political dogma is a dislike to the Republic.
True to their promise the boys saw the editor of the weekly paper, and just as soon as he was able to limp, with the aid of a crutch, to the print shop, Tom Archer began work at the case. He vowed he would try and curb his roving spirit so that little Jim might have a chance to get some schooling in the Fall.
"You stop chasing Curly, and go home to your den!" and with that Uncle Wiggily stuck out his rheumatism crutch, and tripped up the fox so that went tumbling head over heels, and when he got up he was so lame that he could not chase even a snail for more than a week. "Run!
Then they rowed away, the songs say, along the Mysian shore, and past the mouth of Rhindacus, till they found a pleasant bay, sheltered by the long ridges of Arganthus, and by high walls of basalt rock. And there they ran the ship ashore upon the yellow sand, and furled the sail, and took the mast down, and lashed it in its crutch.
The boy bowed his head, instinctively. Surely he had nothing to fear from such a man. He went nearer and tapped lightly on the door. Light as was the touch, the stranger started. "Come!" There was a welcome in the word. Andy stepped cautiously inside. "Good-morning, sir." "The same to you, my lad." The keen eyes softened as they fell upon the rude crutch. "How can I serve you!"
Oh, my goodness me sakes alive and some bang-bang tooth powder!" Carefully the rabbit gentleman arose, but as he had no red, white and blue striped crutch to lean on, he nearly fell again. "I guess I'd better stay sitting down," thought Uncle Wiggily. "Perhaps some one may come along, and I can ask them go get Nurse Jane to gnaw for me another rheumatism crutch out of a corn-stalk.
At last the tenant fetched an old man from some parish a long way off, who said that he could find springs with a divining rod. He was a curious old man with a crutch, and he came with his rod, and hobbled about till at last the rod twitched just at the tenant's back door at least the diviner said it did.
"I know you could. You could paint him far better than that." She laughed, quickly repentant. "I didn't say that to be horrid. I only said it for fun. I couldn't." "And I know you could." He rose and stood without his crutch, looking down on her. "And you're not 'too long drawn out, are you? See? You only come up to about here on me." He measured with his hand a little below his chin.
"It's just like any other baby," said the keeper, petting it. "I sure hope it ain't like any I'll ever have," said Nancy, so naïvely that the man with the crutch laughed. He looked at her keenly. "Go over and see the baby lion," he suggested; and he added, smiling, "It's got red hair."
Before he had really time to understand the subject of the quarrel, the girl jumped up rattling her castanets loudly. A silence fell. She came up to the table and bending over, her eyes in his "Senor," she said with decision, "You shall sleep in the archbishop's room." Neither of the witches objected. The dried-up one bent double was propped on a stick. The puffy faced one had now a crutch.
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