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"Some dozen men, armed, against a poor defenceless old woman, are surely enough." "Owd, boh neaw defenceless, Mester Ruchot," rejoined Baldwyn. "Yo canna go i' too great force on an expedition like this. Malkin Tower is a varry strong place, os yo'n find."
"Most o' us seen the top o' the hill," he resumed, "an' the brown hillmen, what of 'em wasn't layin' limp by the guns, a skitterin' through the scrub after a Boh who'd took off on a stray cavalry horse. "But they was a many o' us as didn't layin' sprawled among the rocks o' the bare hillside, an' their horses runnin' wild to keep up wi' the charge.
The strong liquor had loosened the tongue of the ordinarily silent old man and he continued: "Oi catched his eye fair; an' 'tis the eye of a foightin' man an eye, the loike o' which Oi ain't seen since Oi looked f'r the last time in the dead eyes o' Captain Fronte McKim, in the second outbreak o' the wild Boh, Hira Kal, in the brown hills o' the Punjab."
"Ey've heerd an seen nowt o't sort," replied Jennet; "boh ey' han heerd my mother threaten yo." "Ah, indeed," cried Potts, forcing a laugh, but looking rather blank afterwards; "and how did she threaten me, Jennet, eh? But no matter. Let that pass for the moment. As I was saying, you must have seen mysterious proceedings both at Malkin Tower and your own house.
And as he and his little sister pursued their way to the cottage, Elizabeth hobbled off towards the Abbey, muttering, as she went, "I hope Alizon an Mistress Nutter winna meet. Nah that it matters, boh still it's better not. Strange, the wench should ha' fainted. Boh she's always foolish an timmersome, an ey half fear has lost her heart to young Richard Assheton.
'If I'm sent to Rangoon, said he, 'they'll keep me in jail all my life, and that is a death every time the sun gets up or the wind blows. But we had to send him to Rangoon, and, of course, he was let off down there, and given penal servitude for life. When I came to Rangoon I went over the jail I had helped to fill it, y' know and the old Boh was there, and he spotted me at once.
Then I took my men over the garden wall over the palisades, y' know somehow or other, and the fun began. Hicksey had found the Boh in bed under a mosquito-curtain, and he had taken a flying jump on to him." "A flying jump!" said Cleever. "Is that also war?" "Yes," said The Infant, now thoroughly warmed.
"Ey should ha' said 'westerly' i' stead o' 'yeasterly," cried Jem, "boh yo puzzle a mon so wi' your lawyerly questins, that he dusna knoa his reet hond fro' his laft." "Yeigh, yeigh, we aw meant to say 'yeasterly," added the hinds. "You have sworn the contrary," cried Nowell. "Secure him," he added to the grooms and Sparshot, "and do not let him go till we have completed the survey.
"Say boh t' word, squoire, an ey'n break every boan i' his body," remarked Jem. "No, no, Jem," replied Nicholas. "Take care of your pretty sister, and I'll take care of him."
Boh my pride wur too strong, an ey walked on to Barley an Ogden, an slept at Bess's o th' Booth, an woke this mornin' stout and strong, fully persuaded th' owd witch's threat would come to nowt.
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