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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Here is my good friend, Benjie Doolittle. When he played the ponies in the old days, before he went into the undertaking and furniture business, was he less patriotic than now? Was he less patriotic then than my Uncle Martin Jaffry is now, with all his manufacturer's interest in a stable government? And is my Uncle Martin Jaffry more patriotic than Pat Noonan?
But Benjie fought for it as a lioness does for her cubs, till at length Manasseh was worn out; on which his nephew seized him by the shoulders and threw him out of the door, with such force that all his limbs cracked again.
"You need not tell me that, you sneak," muttered Smart, "come get up, and let's go to yon tree, and see if the old gentleman holds court there." "No, no masser Smart, please ma'am, do ma'am, I dead, I dead." "But what is it, Benjie, that frightens you so?" said I. "Oh! ma'am, dat no elephant, dat no bear. Good elephant, good bear to that.
"Thar he goes now, the brack rascal!" cried Annie, down whose sable countenance large tears were coursing. "Lemme get one good shot at him. I can shore hit him that clost." "Be silent! Annie," commanded Kitty, "and give me this gun. If I hear of your shooting at Benjie any more I'll certainly discharge you.
'Indeed I cannot, my honest friend, said I; 'and if you will go with me to a house hard by, I would be glad to have a night with you. Here I looked round, and observed Benjie smothering a laugh, which I was sure had mischief in it.
The Quixotic little girls and boys all exclaim, "Then we must go and save them, especially Benjie." Smart. "Hi, Benjie, he was doing very well, but, being a good decent sort of chap, it's my wonder he never poisoned them ramscallions when cooking for them."
"I'll be back in a minute," said Benjie Doolittle, disappearing through the private office door with the black tails of his coat achieving a true horizontal behind him. As statesman and as undertaker, Mr. Doolittle never swerved from the garment which keeps green the memory of the late Prince Consort.
This apology made it plain that Skipper Benjie was large-hearted enough, or indulgent enough, not to seek to strain others, even his own family, up to his own way in everything; and it might easily be thought that the young fisherman had different feelings about sealing from those that the planter's story was meant to bring out. All being ready, he began his tale again:
I meditated returning to Shepherd's Bush, and began to think, with some hankering, after little Benjie and the rod. The imp has ventured hither, and hovers about to catch a peep of me now and then; I suppose the little sharper is angling for a few more sixpences.
To our amazement this tree, without a breath of wind to stir a leaf, shook and trembled in every branch, sometimes it waved with a solemn and slow motion, and again it was agitated in the most violent manner. Benjie fell flat on his face, apparently in a fit, as we stood transfixed with amazement. Smart, whose courage rose with the excitement, signed to the dogs to go forward.
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