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"Well, if you only turn out as good a bat as your brother how well he played in the Alphabet Match!" Stephen was reviving fast now, and embarked on a lively chat about his favourite sport, by the end of which the tea was brewed, and he and Mr Rastle sitting "cheek by jowl" at the table, with the muffins and jam between them.
Come 'long, chil'en, time you's gwyne to roos'. Go 'long wid you ole Uncle Daniel gwyne out in de woods to rastle in prah de ole nigger gwyne to do what he kin to sabe you agin" He did go to the woods and pray; but he went so far that he doubted, himself, if the Lord heard him when He went by.
Padger suggested that young Greenfield might possibly have to have his cheek cut off if he didn't look-out, and Paul said the sooner he "stashed his cheek" the better. The result of this friendly and witty conference was that Stephen took it into his head to cure his cheek, and to that end applied for leave from Mr Rastle to go down that afternoon to Maltby to get something from the chemist.
"I'm right smart on the trip, aint I," she grinned. "I never seed a man yit that I couldn't throw in any sort of a rastle." "Le' me up, Mrs. Bolster, an le's begin over agin, an' yo' keep out," begged Hackberry. "Not much I won't. I ain't that kind of a chicken," she asserted with another jounce. "When I down a man I down him fer good, an' he never gits up agin 'till he caves entirely.
"But this was because " "Hush! Didn't I tell you I won't hear what it was about, sir!" said Mr Rastle, sharply. "Did you shake hands afterwards?" "No, I didn't, and I won't!" exclaimed Stephen, forgetting, in his indignation, to whom he was speaking.
"And how do you like Saint Dominic's?" presently inquired the master. "I suppose you've made plenty of friends by this time?" "Oh yes, sir. It's not as slow as it was at first." "That's right. You'll soon get to feel at home. And how do you think you are getting on in class?" Stephen was astonished at this question. If any one knew how he was getting on in class Mr Rastle did, and, alas!
He recovered the perpendicular with the help of two soldiers and a few friends, and was about to proceed with his part, when the door suddenly opened and Mr Rastle appeared. He had evidently not come to see the show indeed he hardly seemed aware that a show was going on. His face was grave, and his voice agitated, as he said "Has any one here seen Loman?"
"Don't you remember how Uncle Hughie used to be always telling us never to 'rastle' against the place we're put in?" Miss Arabella looked at her, uncomprehending. In contrast to her narrow experience, Elsie Cameron seemed to possess all that heart could desire.
I can't 'rastle with you no more. But, say, I'll run ye a race. I can beat ye an' carry the satchel, too." We ran pell-mell up the lane to the steps like a pair of children. Aunt Deel did not speak. She just put her arms around me and laid her dear old head upon my breast. Uncle Peabody turned away. Then what a silence! Off in the edge of the woodland I heard the fairy flute of a wood-thrush.
"Well, rastle with that idea later on, sonny. I'll fix you all right in my report to the kempany, but the rest you must work alone. I've started out the usual posse, circus-ridin' down the road after Harry. He'd be a rough customer to meet just now," continued Bill, with a chuckle, "ef thar was the ghost of a chance o' them comin' up with him, for him and his gang is scattered miles away by this."
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