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What sort of a looking creature is it? you may judge of a man from the sort of horse-company he keeps." "Well, then, sir, I hardly know. It's coal black, and looks as knowing as possible; it's tried twice to get a kick at me, but I was down upon him, and put the bucket in his way. Howsomdever, I don't think it's a bad animal, as a animal, mind you, sir, though a little bit wicious or so."
Arter the warnin' you've had o' your father's wicious propensities; arter all I've said to you upon this here wery subject; arter actiwally seein' and bein' in the company o' your own mother-in-law, vich I should ha' thought wos a moral lesson as no man could never ha' forgotten to his dyin' day!
And when at the Sylvester Arms, on one of those rare occasions when M'Adam was not present, Tammas summed up the little man in that historic phrase of his, "When he's drunk he's wi'lent, and when he bain't he's wicious," there was an applause to gratify the blasé heart of even Tammas Thornton. Yet it had not been till his wife's death that the little man had allowed loose rein to his ill-nature.
'Ah! cried Mr Bailey, squaring his arms with a sudden emotion. 'What, you're wicious, are you? Would you though! You'd better not! 'Pray, go away! said Merry. 'Bailey, my good boy, go home. Jonas! she said; timidly laying her hand upon his shoulder, and bending her head down over him. 'Jonas! 'Look at her! cried Jonas, pushing her off with his extended arm. 'Look here! Look at her!
"I say, is he wicious?" he asked, backing a little. "I think not, but " I was checked in my speech by the little dog uttering a whine of delight and suddenly dancing round the boy, wagging its tail violently, and indeed wriggling its whole shapeless body with joy; as some dogs are wont to do when they meet with an old friend unexpectedly. "Why, he seems to know you," said I, in surprise.
I don't want none of your teeth; I've got enough of my own. So the boy pipes, as he selects it from his change, and throws it on the counter. 'Don't sauce ME, in the wicious pride of your youth, Mr Venus retorts pathetically. Don't hit ME because you see I'm down. I'm low enough without that. It dropped into the till, I suppose. They drop into everything.
There was two in the coffee-pot at breakfast time. Molars. 'Very well, then, argues the boy, 'what do you call names for? To which Mr Venus only replies, shaking his shock of dusty hair, and winking his weak eyes, 'Don't sauce ME, in the wicious pride of your youth; don't hit ME, because you see I'm down. You've no idea how small you'd come out, if I had the articulating of you.
"Remember, Ben," she continued, speaking in a timorous voice, and her color coming and going, "remember that Greased Lightning is a very wicious sort of 'orse, and this is only a little child. Has you ever been on a 'orse's back afore, little love?" "Sometimes," replied Diana. "And my faver said when I got older he would give me a horse of my own to wide.
'He's a ill-conditioned, wicious, bad-disposed porochial child that, said Mr. Bumble angrily. 'Where is he? 'I'll bring him to you in one minute, sir, replied Mrs. Mann. 'Here, you Dick! After some calling, Dick was discovered. Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle.
'Go away, you wicious thing, retorted Spilsby, mildly, giving Kitty her coffee and change out of the money she handed him, 'or I'll set the perlice on yer.
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