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Updated: May 21, 2025
Have you nothing at all to put on your feet?" "Bogie-man," burst out Ditte, laughing roguishly. She was tired now of answering all their questions. However, they dragged out of her that she had a pair of wooden shoes, which were being kept for winter. "Then with the help of God she shall have a pair of my cloth ones," said the old lady. "Give her a pair, Asta; and take a fairly good pair."
Vanquished Often laughed merrily, and the chief looked like a father whose child has thrown a stone at the bogie-man. I rubbed his nose with mine in farewell, and we began our journey, barehanded as Crusoe, yet more fortunate than he since we were in the best of company and I had the comforting knowledge that Marquesan youth would not go hungry or permit me to do so.
I foresaw that sleep was out of the question, and so determined to make a night of it. "Touching upon this ghost," I began, when the other bade me in God's name not to jest. There were some things, he said, not to be broached in honest Christian company. "A fig for your scruples!" I cried, emptying my glass; my head was hot and I felt bold. "A fig, I say, for your bogie-man nonsense!
Political agitators, great and small, of the Young Ireland school, did their best to deepen the suspicions of an impulsive and ignorant peasantry against the Whigs, and Lord John was personally assailed, until he became a sort of bogie-man to the lively and undisciplined imagination of a sensitive but resentful race.
Maren, who stood inside the kitchen door cleaning herrings, listened with amusement. "If you do it once more," said the child, "we'll take you up to the old witch, and she'll eat you all up." Maren came quickly out. "Who says that?" asked she, her furrowed face quivering. "The Bogie-man says it," said Ditte cheerfully. "Rubbish, child, be serious. Who's taught you that? Tell me at once."
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