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"In this shady bit o' flat, ye're shut up, I grant it. But consider what ye're shut away from ugly things, like fightin' and callin' names" his argument being intended chiefly for Johnnie. "And I don't mind about my old clothes," declared the latter stoutly. "Anyhow, I don't mind 'cause they're raggy. All I'm sorry for is that my rags don't fit."
I can't say I'm quite confident yet of laying hold of him the time is so short, you see but I think I shall at least have news for you by the evening." Hewitt sat in the club-room until the afternoon, taking his lunch there. At length he saw, through the front window, Raggy Steggles walking down the road. In an instant Hewitt was down-stairs and at the door.
His raggy, grey beard straggled under his chin and up to his ears; his eyes twinkled through a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles; in defiance of European etiquette, he wore his hat over a crop of rough, grey hair. Clinging to his arm was a very stout lady in a green coat and a velvet turban adorned with feathers.
'Eh it's been nobbut raggy weather up o' the moors this winter, Davy, an' a great lot o' sheep lost. Nobbut twothrey o' mine, I thank th' Lord. But in the midst of a most unflattering account of the later morals and development of the Wigson family, Reuben stopped dead short, with a stare at the door. 'Wal, aa niver! theer's Mr. Ancrum hissel, I do uphowd yo!
Laugh, kick up your heels, let out the hi-yi-yips! Now, then! Are you ready?" "Wait until I start the band," says I. "Hey, there, Mr. Rovelli! Music cue! Something zippy and raggy. Shoot it!" Say, I don't know how them early English parties used to put it over when they got together for a mad, gladsome romp on the greensward, but if they had anything on us they must have been double-jointed.
"You are too bold, Raggy, my son!" she might reply. "I fear you will run once too often." "But, mother, it is such glorious fun to tease that fool dog, and it's all good training. I'll thump if I am too hard pressed, then you can come and change off while I get my second wind." On he would come, and Ranger would take the trail and follow till Rag got tired of it.
"Run, Raggylug, run!" said his mother, keeping the snake busy with her jumps; and you may believe Raggylug ran! Just as soon as he was out of the way his mother came too, and showed him where to go. When she ran, there was a little white patch that showed under her tail; that was for Raggy to follow, he followed it now.
"I was goin' to give him a bust or two with the pistol," the trainer explained, "but, when we got over t'other side, 'Raggy, ses he, 'it's blawin' a bit chilly. I think I'll ha' a sweater. There's one on my box, ain't there? So in I coomes for the sweater, and it weren't on his box, and, when I found it and got back he weren't there. They'd seen nowt o' him in t' house, and he weren't nowhere."
Hop! hop! she went again, and this time she hurt him so that he twisted and turned; but he held on to Raggylug. Once more the mother rabbit hopped, and once more she struck and tore the snake's back with her sharp claws. Zzz! How she hurt! The snake dropped Raggy to strike at her, and Raggy rolled on to his feet and ran.
"You promised one to me you know you did!" urged Linda Slater, much aggrieved at the non-performance of an order. "Well, I thought I'd have time to do four, and could only manage three," apologized Fil. "You see, they really take such ages, and Miss Strong was getting raggy about my prep." "You might make me one for my birthday!" begged Evie. "Certainly not! Those that ask shan't have!"
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