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A hundred echoes caught the detonation and as the discharge reverberated along the stony hills to Fingle Gorge, Will Blanchard staggered backwards and fell in a heap, while the poacher reeled, then steadied himself, and vanished under the woods.
Again coarse and servile slaves of slaves, dressed up in various dazzling attires varieties of Generals wishing to distinguish themselves, or to earn the right to add one more little star, fingle fangle, or scrap of ribbon to their idiotic glaring get-up, or else from stupidity or carelessness again these miserable men have destroyed amid dreadful sufferings thousands of those honorable, kind, hard-working laborers who feed them.
There was a brief pause, then Will changed the conversation abruptly. "How's your brother Jan?" he asked. "He's furnishing his new house and busy about the formation of a volunteer corps. I met him not long since in Fingle Gorge." "Be you friends now, if I may ax?" "I tried to be. We live and learn. Things happened to me a while ago that taught me what I didn't know.
This humility peculiarly fitted him to instruct the young, of whom he was very fond 'Nor do I blush, although I think some may Call me a baby, 'cause I with them play; I do 't to show them how each fingle fangle On which they doating are, their souls entangle; And, since at gravity they make a tush, My very beard I cast behind a bush. He had friends among the rich as well as the poor.
John cut into the case, loaded his pipe, and lighted it with a contented sign. Then he handed the rest back to its owner. "No, no," said Martin. "I'll just have one fill, that's all. I brought this for you. 'T will atone for the poor sport. The creel I shall leave with you now, for I'm away to Fingle Bridge and Prestonbury. We'll meet at nightfall."
To-day they were about an angling excursion, and the fishers' road to Fingle lying through Monks Barton, both brothers stopped a while and waited upon their old friend of the mill, according to John's promise of the previous afternoon.
Therein wound tinkling Teign through the gorges of Fingle to the sea; and above it, where the land climbed upward on the other side, spread the Park of Whiddou, with expanses of sweet, stone-scattered herbage, with tracts of deep fern, coverts of oak, and occasional habitations for the deer.
'Here, said Mr Hard to the priest, 'is ten pounds. Send it to this bookseller Fingle and he shall choose books on Catholicism to that amount, and you shall receive them, and I will come and read them here with you. So the priest sent the money, and in four days the books came, and Mr Hard and the priest opened the package, and these were the books inside: Auricular Confession: a History.
"The airth be damn near drowned, an' the air's thick like a washin'-day everywheers, an' a terrible braave sight o' rain unshed in the elements yet." "'T will pass, sure as Noah seed a rainbow." "Ess, 't will pass; but Monks Barton's like to be washed to Fingle Bridge fust. Oceans o' work waitin', but what can us be at? Theer ban't a bit o' land you couldn't most swim across."
He often walked twenty miles a day, and fishermen said that he knew every big trout in the Teign from Fingle Bridge to the dark pools and rippling steps under Sittaford Tor, near the river's twin birthplaces.
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