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"If you did you'd get wopped," remarked Goff, with a touch of sarcasm, for the lieutenant of the band was not so respectful to his commander as a well-disciplined man should be. "What makes you think so?" demanded the chief. "The fact that the diggers are a sight too many for us," returned Goff. "Why, we'd find 'em three to one, if not four."
Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect. Pericles cleared and he ceased to persecute Emilia. "I am not one that is wopped," he said significantly; nodding to his English hearers, as if this piece of shrewd acquaintance with the expressive mysteries of their language placed them upon equal terms.
The seaman patted Martin on the head as he spoke; and, turning to Bob Croaker, continued: "Ye ought to be proud, ye spalpeen, o' bein' wopped by sich a young hero as this. Come here and shake hands with him: d'ye hear? Troth an' it's besmearin' ye with too much honour that same. There, that'll do. Don't say ye're sorry now, for it's lies ye'd be tellin' if ye did.
The first song was "Lilly Dale," and the men, who, we need scarcely say, were fictitious negroes, sang it so well that the audience listened with breathless attention and evident delight, and encored it vociferously. The next song was "Oh! Massa, how he wopped me," a ditty of quite a different stamp, but equally popular.
He wanted to know how it was to be done, of course, and after taking his word of honour for secrecy, I told him that the remedy would lie in his own hands, showed him the ring, and taught him how to work it. Mr. Squeers, went on Miss Martin, 'had never wopped a boy in a cab before, and I had never beheld a scene of passionate emotion before in a four-wheeler.
Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect. Pericles cleared and he ceased to persecute Emilia. "I am not one that is wopped," he said significantly; nodding to his English hearers, as if this piece of shrewd acquaintance with the expressive mysteries of their language placed them upon equal terms.
Upon my soul, I've a great mind to rouse him, and hit him a slap of the chaps. I hate smooth faces." "Well," said Staines, "you may depend upon it Rattlin is asleep, or he would have wopped you, Pigtop, for your compliments." "He! I should very much like to see it the spooney." "If Mr Rattlin is caulking," said our valet-de-chambre, "there can't be no harm done whatsomever.
As they swooped nearer, however, and the tips of their wings were "wopped" into his very eyes, the thing was growing unbearable; and Fritz began to lose temper. His "yirs" became more frequent; and once or twice he rose from his squatting attitude, and made a snap at the feathers that were nearest.
"O yes, John; it united 'em immediately after to Old England, so that we're now Great Britain an' Ireland. Then Sir Ralph Abercromby, he gave the French an awful lickin' on land in Egypt at Aboukir, where Nelson had wopped 'em on the sea, and, last of all came the glorious battle of Trafalgar. But it wasn't all glory, for we lost Lord Nelson there. He was killed."
See, he's not only wet to the skin, but narrowly escaped going to the bottom, as you know; and now, in return for this kindness, you try to wop him, and end in getting wopped instead yourself. Anstruther, you're an ass, and more than that, you're an ungrateful ass; and I've half a mind to thrash you myself for your conduct to Vernon!"
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