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"But I can feel 'em," replied Smallbones. "This here dog has a-bitten me all to bits, but a ghost of a dog can't bite anyhow." "No," replied Short. "And now, d'ye see, as Obadiah Coble has said as how spirits must be laid, I think if we were to come for to go for to lay this here hanimal in the cold hearth, he may perhaps not be able to get up again." "That's only a perhaps," observed Coble.
Eglantine was to ride on Sunday. The monster Walker had fully determined in his mind that Eglantine should FALL off that horse in the course of his Sunday's ride. "That sing'lar hanimal," said Mr. Snaffle, pointing to the old horse, "is the celebrated Hemperor that was the wonder of Hastley's some years back, and was parted with by Mr.
Waffles. 'Ah! then he is the oss, in course, said Mr. Buckram, with a sort of mournful chuck of the chin; 'he is the oss, repeated he; 'well, then, he's a dangerous hanimal, added he, letting slip three half-crowns. 'What does he do? asked Mr. Waffles. 'Do! repeated Mr. Buckram, 'DO! he'll do for anybody. 'Indeed, responded Mr. Waffles; adding, 'how could Mr. Sponge sell me such a brute?
By the powers of Moll Kelly, but you won't serve Pat Kallahan that dirty trick again anyhow. "As he levelled at me, I fell back, and the ball passed right over me and struck a wounded orse that was broke down behind, and a sittin' up on his fore-legs like a dog. Oh, the scream of that are hanimal, Sir, was just like a Christian's. It was hawful. I have the sound of it in my ears now halmost.
"Ah! them's all in the other caravan," replied the man, "vich should 'ave been here on Monday night, but hasn't coom yet, and we suppose has broken down by the way; but there's a hanimal worth 'em all," he added, pointing to the indescribable monster in the dark corner. "The most curiousest ever was seen. Take a look on him; and if you don't own he is, I'll heat him, skin and all.
We, munseer. Backystopper. I say, Bill: is that young chap often a-coming about here? They'd run pretty in a curricle, wouldn't they? Miss N. and Master N. Quiet, old woman! Jest look to that mare's ead, will you, Billy? He's a fine young feller, that is. He gave me a covering the other night. Whenever I sor him in the Park, he was always riding an ansum hanimal. What is he?
The master fires first, and hits the cat a clip on the neck, which turns her half over, and the first-lieutenant fires his musket, and cuts the poor hanimal right in half by the backbone, and she sprawls a bit, and then goes down to the bottom. `Capital shots both, says the first-lieutenant; `he'll never take an observation of your sextant again, master; and they both laughs heartily, and goes down the ladder to get their dinner.
Well, Sir, as I was trotting along, I saw a French dragoon, well mounted, leading a splendid spare orse, belonging to some French hofficer of rank, as far as I could judge from his happearance and mountings. Instead of pursuing my course, as I ought to have done, Sir, I thought I'de make a dash at the rascal, and make prize of that are hanimal.
"Come off, clumsy! you can't manage that I ere fine hanimal," cried the liveryman. "Ah! he's a lamb, sir, if he were backed properly. But I has not a man in the yard as can ride since Will died. Come off, I say, lubber!" But to come off, without being thrown off, was more easily said than done.
When it was a kitten, they had cut off his tail close to its starn, and his ears had been shaved off just as close to his figure-head, and the hanimal used to set up on his hind legs and fight like a rabbit. It had quite lost its natur, as it were, and looked, for all the world, like a little imp of darkness.
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