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Updated: September 24, 2025
The policeman was so struck by the unusual sight of a street boy looking innocent and unconscious, that he stooped and raised him quite tenderly in his arms. "You'd better carry him in here," said Sir Richard Brandon's butler, who had come out. "I saw it 'appen, and suspect he must be a good deal damaged."
"But it sounded such an extraordinary thing, a Tube, when I read about it that I expected to see something different," John continued. "Well, it is an extraordinary thing," the man said. "You walk down them steps there, an' get into a lift, an' wot'll 'appen to you? You'll be dropped 'undreds of feet into the earth, an' when you get ta the bottom, you'll find trains runnin' by electricity.
If it didn't 'appen as my horryscope demands as I should be a chapman, an' sell books an' sich along the roads, I might ha' been as fine a gentleman as any on 'em, just by follering the directions printed into this here blessed tome, an' in nice large type, too, an' woodcuts." "This is certainly very remarkable!" said Barnabas.
"I don't know so much about that," ses Bill, thinking about the arguments some of them had 'ad with Ted about the bottle. "Was it arter they was married, cookie, that it 'appened? Are you sure?" "Certain sure. It was a week arter," ses the cook. "Very well, then," ses Bill, slapping 'is bad leg by mistake; "if they didn't marry, it couldn't 'appen, could it?"
"My name's Murphy," she answered, "Molly Murphy; my husband's Mr Murphy, the clown, him you see in the playbills." Still Andrew stood with his eyes fixed on her face; then he looked from her to the little boot clutched so tightly in Dickie's fat fist. "Might you 'appen to have the feller one to this?" he asked. "Surely," answered the woman.
"Doon, mon!" he whispered, clutching at Gyp with his spare hand. "What is't, Jim?" asked the Master, now thoroughly roused. "Summat movin' i' th' wood," the other whispered, listening weasel-eared. So they lay motionless for a while; but there came no sound from the copse. "'Appen 'twas nowt," the postman at length allowed, peering cautiously about. "And yet I thowt I dunno reetly what I thowt."
"A what?" said Barnabas. "A corp, sir a stiff " "Do you mean dead?" "Ah, I mean werry much so!" nodded Mr. Shrig. "Number Three vill be stone cold, somev'eres in the country it'll 'appen, I fancy, say in a vood!
"Why didn't you tell me, then?" ses Ted choking. "It 'ud ha' been no good," ses the cook, smiling and shaking his 'ead. "Wot I see must 'appen. I on'y see the future, and that must be." "But you stood there watching me chucking the bottle about," ses Ted, getting out of 'is bunk. "Why didn't you stop me?" "You don't understand," ses the cook. "If you'd 'ad more eddication "
But he come to, a minute after they laid im down an I ses, 'Jamie, ow did it appen' an he ses, 'Mother, it wor John Burgess ee opened my lamp for to light hissen as had gone out an I don't know no more. An then after a bit he ses, 'Mother, don't you fret I'm glad I'm goin I'd got the drink in me, he ses. An then he give two three little breaths, as though he wor pantin an I kiss him."
Then 'e took 'is arm in agin and lay there wondering wot was going to 'appen next. "If you ever break your oath by on'y so much as a teaspoonful," ses Silas, "you'll see me agin, and the second time you see me you'll die as if struck by lightning. No man can see me twice and live." Bill broke out in a cold perspiration all over. "You'll be careful, won't you, Silas?" he ses.
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