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Updated: June 14, 2025
The baboons thought the corn ripe enough, and would soon have made a crop of it, but at this moment their operations were interrupted. Totty knew but little of the danger she underwent, when she ran forth with nothing but that long broom-handle to drive off a troop of chacmas.
It was made of two boards that were put together like a V with the point down; and another board was nailed across one end, but the other end was left open. It was a kind of a trough; and a stick like a broom-handle stuck down from the middle of it.
In one corner stood a wide, canvas-covered cot; in another, a small bookcase; in another, a grim stand of Winchesters and shotguns. An immense table, strewn with letters, papers and documents and surmounted by a set of pigeon-holes, occupied one side. The centipede showed genius in concealing himself in such bare quarters. Mrs. Maclntyre was poking a broom-handle behind the bookcase.
Each held the gun awkwardly like a broom-handle, holding their breath to prevent the barrel from wobbling. At the fifth shot, by a lucky fluke, Chook rang the bell. When he put down the rifle, Stinky was already dragging Pinkey away, his face black with anger. But Chook cried out, "'Ere, 'arf a mo' this is my shout!"
There were one or two passengers and a few small shops in the street, but the thing had been done so suddenly and with so little noise, that the passengers and owners of the shops were not aware of what had occurred until they beheld the twelve captives rush past them like a torrent each seizing, as he passed, a broom-handle, or any piece of timber that might form a handy weapon.
The final item in the programme was one invented and brought to mechanical perfection just before the war broke out. He insisted on playing his cigar box and broom-handle fiddle in spite of Elodie's remonstrances. There was a pretty squabble.
If any of your friends chafe you about it, tell them that it was Cashel Byron did it, and ask them whether they think they could have helped themselves any better than you could. Don't ever let a person come within distance of yon while you're standing in that silly way on both your heels. Why, if a man isn't properly planted on his pins, a broom-handle falling against him will upset him.
However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out. "Very well, Mrs Kelly you shall pay for this impudence, and that dearly. "Lies!" screamed the widow; "av' you say lies to me agin, in this house, I'll smash the bones of ye myself, with the broom-handle.
"Why?" repeated Mr. Davis. "Why? Why, because she hit me over the 'ead with a broom-handle." Mrs. Smith tossed her head. "Fancy you remembering that for thirty-five years!" she said. "Fancy forgetting it!" retorted Mr. Davis. "I suppose she had a hot temper," said the old lady. "'Ot temper?" said the other. "Yes."
Next day Martin, attended by William Rufus, arrived at our house with a big corn sack on his shoulder, a long broom-handle in his hand, a lemonade bottle half filled with milk, a large sea biscuit and a small Union Jack which came from the confectioner's on the occasion of his last birthday.
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