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"That will do," said George gently. "Now, both of you shake hands, and come upstairs with me." When all three of them had got calm, for George had been moved almost as much as his father and mother, they went upstairs, and Panky came for his answer.
It is very dark, and there will be no moon this two hours. We are hungry, but we can hold out till we get to Sunchildston; it cannot be more than eight or nine miles further down." Panky assented, but then, turning sharply to my father, he said, "My man, what are you doing in the forbidden dress? Why are you not in ranger's uniform, and what is the meaning of all those quails?"
This is done, and the Rommany dye adroitly making up a parcel resembling the one laid down, steals the latter, leaving the former. Mr Barrow calls this hokkeny baro, the great swindle. I may remark, by the way, that among jugglers and "show-people" sleight of hand is called hanky panky.
My father, then, could understand that a single incontrovertible miracle of the first magnitude should uproot the hedges of caution in the minds of the common people, but he could not understand how such men as Hanky and Panky, who evidently did not believe that there had been any miracle at all, had been led to throw themselves so energetically into a movement so subversive of all their traditions, when, as it seemed to him, if they had held out they might have pricked the balloon bubble easily enough, and maintained everything in statu quo.
One of his Royal Professors was to wear the clothes one way, and the other the other." "My way of wearing them," said Panky, "is much the most convenient." "Not a bit of it," said Hanky warmly. On this the two Professors fell out, and the discussion grew so hot that my father interfered by advising them not to talk so loud lest another ranger should hear them.
"I do not know what she means to do," said the other, "but I know that she thinks she can best us." "I wish we had not eaten those quails." "Nonsense, Panky; no one saw us but Higgs, and the evidence of a foreign devil, in such straits as his, could not stand for a moment. We did not eat them. No, no; she has something that she thinks better than that.
He said, I remember: "Here we are, six intelligent persons of above the average grade, and in a few minutes our hair will be rising and our pulses hammering while a Choctaw Indian control, in atrocious English, will tell us she is happy and we are happy and so everybody's happy. Hanky panky!" "You may be as skeptical as you please, if you will only be fair, Herbert," Mrs. Dane said.
Over the main entrance was a gallery in which singers were placed. As my father was worming his way among the crowd, which was now very dense, he was startled at finding himself tapped lightly on the shoulder, and turning round in alarm was confronted by the beaming face of George. "How do you do, Professor Panky?" said the youth who had decided thus to address him.
He took off his right boot and handed it to Panky. "Exactly so! Eleven inches by four and a half, and one nail missing. And now, Mr. Ranger, will you be good enough to explain how you became possessed of that boot. You need not show me the other." And he spoke like an examiner who was confident that he could floor his examinee in viva voce.
"He had his permit open before we were within speaking distance. I think he feared I should attack him without making sure whether he was a foreign devil or no. I have told you he said he was Professor Panky." "I suppose he had a dark complexion and black hair like the rest of us?" "Dark complexion and hair purplish rather than black.
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