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Updated: June 18, 2025
The billies lookit as gin they were gettin' terrifeed at Sandy, when I noticed him gie Bandy a bit wink on the sly; an' I saw syne that Sandy was nae mair mismirized than I was. "There's neen o' ye here 'at Sandy has ony ill-will at," says Bandy; "we'll see what like his fechtin' bump wirks." Wi' that he gae him a touch ahent the lug, an' Sandy was layin' aboot him in a wink.
Gladstone were both Williams. Many other great men have been Williams." "But not Billies," said Christine Silber, provoking a giggle from the greedily-listening White Class. Greta scorched them into silence with a look, and continued: "He is by profession a surveyor, not exactly a partner in the firm of Gadd and Saxby, on Market Square, but something very near it."
The blazing fire with the billies catching the flame, the meal of bread and meat, the hour or two afterwards when they lolled on the sand while Peter smoked and told yarns, and then the cool quiet night with the myriad stars above them; these things made the boys forget the little discomforts they were bound to encounter.
Although as an inventor I can allow no one to depreciate my genius, I will admit there was but one thing that could be done, and those muffs Tietkens and Jimmy actually advised me to do what I had invented, which was simply all great inventions are simple to cover the bottoms with canvas, and embed the billies half-way up their sides in cold ashes, and boil from the top instead of the bottom, which of course we did, and these were our glue- and flesh-pots.
Strange," the chauffeur went on musingly, "what a difference clothes make in a woman. Nobody noticed her much, only we thought she was kind of touched, when she was herding those billies by herself up that pocket, but the minute Banks came, she blossomed out; made us all sit up and take notice. Yes, sir, she's sure some style.
There would be no little Hazels and little Hatties, nor little... Billies " "Nor little Saxons," Billy interjected. "Nor little Possums," she hurried on, nodding her head and reaching out a caressing hand to where the fox terrier was ecstatically gnawing a deer-rib. A vicious snarl and a wicked snap that barely missed her fingers were her reward.
Three times a day the black billies and cloudy nose-bags are placed on the table. The men eat in a casual kind of way, as though it were only a custom of theirs, a matter of form a habit which could be left off if it were worth while. The Exception is heard to remark to no one in particular that he'll give all he has for a square meal. "An' ye'd get it cheap, begod!" says a big Irish shearer.
"One of our lifers that we won't have with us much longer," he said casually, noting that the governor's eyes followed the sick convict. "When the con gets one of these hill billies he goes mighty fast." "A mountaineer, then?" said the governor. "What's his name?" "Dugmore," answered the warden; "sent from Clayton County. One of those Clayton County feud fighters."
There came, not the expected tattoo of police billies on the door, but a shrill whisper through the key-hole: "Johnny," the voice said, "are you there? Let me in. I seen it! I seen it! I get the century note you promised me! Let me in!" When Mazie entered the taxi with the man who was an entire stranger to her she did it on the impulse of the moment.
Danny had blundered on, this far, somehow; he was the last in the world who could have told how, and had managed to light a fire; then he lay with his head on his swag and enjoyed nips of whisky in judicious doses and at reasonable intervals, and later on a tot of mutton-broth, which he made in one of the billies. It was after tea.
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