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I took the 'int, and heat away like a regular bagman, who can always dispatch his ducks and green peas in ten minutes. We started again, and about one hundred yards below the pike stood a lad with a pair of leaders to clap on, for the road, as I said before, was werry woolley. "Now, you see, Mr. Jorrocks," said Sir Wincent, "I do old Pikey by having my 'osses on this side.
It was his comrade, sitting moodily on a convenient rock, elbows on knees and chin deep buried in his brown and hairy hands, who seemed brooding over the desolation of his surroundings. Watching him in silence a moment, a quiet smile of amusement on his lips, Sergeant Wing sauntered over and placed a friendly hand on the broad blue shoulder. "Well, Pikey, are you wishing yourself back in Frisco?"
More than a mile in length, but quite narrow, it lay on the seashore a lake of deep fresh water, with nothing between it and the sea but a bank of sand, up which the great waves came rolling in southwesterly winds, one now and then toppling over to the disconcerting no doubt of the pikey multitude within.
He looked across at Herrick with a toothless smile that was shocking in its savagery; and, his ear caught apparently by the trivial expression he had used, broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London: meaningless gibberish that, in that hour and place, seemed hateful as a blasphemy: "Hikey, pikey, crikey, fikey, chillingawallaba dory."
Look at that." "Yes, I see," said Brace, "another alligator." For the American had drawn his attention to a wave raised up by something rushing past the bows of the boat. "Well, I don't know about that," said Briscoe; "I rather fancy that was one of those gar-fish alligator gars, they call 'em in the States. They're great pikey fish with tremendous teeth." "But not big like that?"
He wished, however, that Jackson were back with such tidings as he had picked up at Ceralvo's. It was always best to be prepared, even though this was some distance away from the customary raiding-ground of the tribe. Just then there came a hail from aloft. Pikey was shouting.
'O crikey, yes! He looked across at Herrick with a toothless smile that was shocking in its savagery; and his ear caught apparently by the trivial expression he had used, broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London: meaningless gibberish that, in that hour and place, seemed hateful as a blasphemy: 'Hikey, pikey, crikey, fikey, chillingawallaba dory.
'Costs nothin', observed Jog drily, drawing the reins, as the man again returned to the gate-house. A considerable delay then took place; first, Pikey had to find his glasses, as he called his spectacles, to look out a one-horse-chaise ticket.
Yes, sir! with tears in his eyes he did. Told us no matter how high he rose in th' world he'd never forget his old comrades always rec'gnize 'em on th' street an' all that. On his way down town he was fool enough to go into one o' these here Romany Pikey dives for to get his fortune told.
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