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Enough said. You've a riling tongue when your back's up, Herrick. Just be glad we're friends again, the same as what I am; and go tender on the raws; I'll see as you don't repent it. We've been mighty near death this day don't say whose fault it was! pretty near hell, too, I guess. We're in a mighty bad line of life, us two, and ought to go easy with each other.
But the district of which he may be said to have had medical charge was full of a bad kind of low fever, which took up all his time and thought, and often made him very thankful that Molly was out of the way in the quiet shades of Hamley. His domestic 'raws' had not healed over in the least, though he was obliged to put the perplexities on one side for the time.
We refused to do duty, however, to a man; most of our fellows being pretty bold, as native Americans. We were a fortnight in this situation, the greater part of the time playing green, with our tin pots slung round our necks. We did so much of this, that the people began to laugh at us, as real Johnny Raws, though the old salts knew better.
''Unt in 'alf an hour! exclaimed Watchorn, from the steps of the front door; an announcement that was received by the little Raws, and little Spooneys, and little Baskets, and little Bulgeys, and little Bricks, and little others, with rapturous applause.
But dost it know what it means itself? canst answer me that, good woman? Your midshipman can sing out, and pass the word, when the captain gives the order, but just send him adrift by himself, and let him work the ship of his own head, and stop my grog if you dont find all the Johnny Raws laughing at him.
They are generally razor-backed beasts, with one or two raws, and blind, at least, of one eye. The captain was mounted on a strong Spanish horse well able to bear him, and I followed on a frisky little animal with his valise and carpet-bags. I wish that I could describe the wonderful trees we passed.
The bore is the same, eating dates under the cedars of Lebanon, as over a plate of baked beans in Beacon Street. Parties of travellers have a morbid instinct for "establishing raws" upon each other. A man shall sit down with his friend at the foot of the Great Pyramid and they will take up the question they had been talking about under "the great elm," and forget all about Egypt.
Enough said. You've a riling tongue when your back's up, Herrick. Just be glad we're friends again, the same as what I am; and go tender on the raws; I'll see as you don't repent it. We've been mighty near death this day don't say whose fault it was! pretty near hell, too, I guess. We're in a mighty bad line of life, us two, and ought to go easy with each other."
'You ask him, then, rejoined Miss Howard, who didn't care to risk another rub. 'Peter, said Lady Scattercash to the footman, who had been loitering about, listening to the conversation, 'Peter, go and ask that tall boy with the blue neckerchief and the riband round his hat to come in. 'Yes, my lady, replied Peter. 'The Raws won't come. Sir H., observed Miss Howard soberly.
That is the great advantage of having the young of both sexes in the same schoolroom, the manners of the brutal sex may be made tender by the presence of the refined one. Boys and girls both went to the Grammar School at Burnley, in the now forgotten days when Mr. Raws was head-master there; but that was long before my time. My existence at Ivy Cottage was one of extreme dulness varied by dread.
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