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It was now my turn to give vent to a cry of consternation, for what I saw was this: A large blacksnake coiled about the nest, the fold of his neck wabbling to and fro in a terrifying way, while with his mouth he was trying to seize one of the bantlings.
"Bah!" he exclaimed with a sneer, "business first and pleasure afterwards! Bezers will obtain satisfaction in his own way, I promise you that! And at his own time. And it will not be on unfledged bantlings like you. But what is this for?"
As the twigs stirred, they opened their mouths for food, and I decided to accommodate them. Taking a bit of cracker from my haversack, I moistened it, and rolled it into a pellet between my finger and thumb; then, gently swaying the bushes, I induced the bantlings to open their mouths, when I dropped the morsel into one of the tiny throats.
So she 'olds the brat, and I never sees it agin; and there's an ind of the bother! 'But won't they ever ax for the child, them as giv' it you? 'Oh, no, says Peg, 'they left it too long for that, and all the tin was agone; and one mouth is hard enough to feed in these days, let by other folks' bantlings. 'Well, says I, 'where do you hang out?
"Yes; he's not more than five or six-and-twenty, and fond of a wandering life, so what should he want of a wife and a flock of bantlings?" "He seems sad and sober sometimes, and I fancied he might have some domestic trouble to harass him.
The mother of the beaten belligerent would then threaten to wring the "year," or to twist the nose of the victorious party sometimes she did it. In either case, the other mother would intervene, and then the two bantlings would retire into the background and leave their mothers to take up the duel while they resumed their interrupted game. Of such sort was the squabble betwixt Mrs. Isaacs and Mrs.
The babies, nursemaids, and pet dogs are there. Breakfast over, the holiday-makers amuse themselves, grandparents and bantlings, with fishing for minnows in the clear waters. How merry are all! How all too swiftly fleet the bright hours! In the spacious, terraced garden of the restaurant we find dozens of tables spread for richer folk.
His courage, his blunt wit, his active ways all appealed to the youth, and often delegations would go out to meet him. Every college has his kind, whom the bantlings fall down and worship fisticuffs and books are both represented, and a touch of irreverence for those in authority is no disadvantage.
I say, youngsters, who is your father? he must be a smart fellow to own such a pair of bantlings." "Our father is Captain Loraine who lives at Uphill, and he's not the person to stand nonsense from you or any other man like you!" exclaimed Dan, whose Irish temper had risen almost to boiling pitch.
Rough discipline in youth is England's system with all her bantlings. She is but a frosty parent if at bottom kindly, and, when she has a shadow of justification, proud. In the present instance she stands excused by the sore shock caused her conservatism by the conceit of a building of glass and iron four times as long as St.
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