Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 3, 2025
It was a dreadful place to get horses up to, and two of them fell two or three times on the glassy, shelving, and slippery rocks. The old grey, Buggs, hurt himself a good deal. Time seems to fly in these places, except when you want it to do so, and by the time the horses got down from the water the day was nearly gone.
The attorney had just said 'there, please, in reply to the vicar's question, 'Where do I write my name? and red Buggs, grinning with his mouth open, like an over-heated dog, and the sad and bilious young gentleman, stood by to witness the execution of the cleric's autograph. Tall Jos. Larkin looked up, smiling with his mouth also a little open, as was his wont when he was particularly affable.
As he gave it to me, so, reader, do I give it to you: "Yes, suh, to this good day Colonel Bud Crittenden ain't never fergot that time he made the mistake about Stony Buggs and the Bear Grass County man. It learnt him a lesson, though.
Wylder, farewell. I regret the enhanced expense I regret the delay I regret the risk I regret, in fact, the whole scene. Farewell, Mrs. Wylder. And with a silent bow to Rachel perfectly polished, perfectly terrible he withdrew, followed by the sallow clerk, and by that radiant scamp, old Buggs, who made them several obeisances at the door.
But his orgies, when off duty, were such as to cause the good attorney, when complaints reached him, to shake his head, and sigh profoundly, and sometimes to lift up his mild eyes and long hands; and, indeed, so scandalous an appendage was Buggs, that if he had been less useful, I believe the pure attorney, who, in the uncomfortable words of John Bunyan, 'had found a cleaner road to hell, would have cashiered him long ago.
'There is that awful Mr. Buggs, said Dolly, with a look of honest alarm. 'I often wonder so Christian a man as Mr. Larkin can countenance him. He is hardly ever without a black eye.
Larkin knew what a gentleman he was by a young and bilious clerk, with black hair and a melancholy countenance, and by old Buggs his conducting man always grinning, whose red face glared in the little garden like a great bunch of hollyhocks. He was sober as a judge all the morning, and proceeded strictly on the principle of business first, and pleasure afterward.
When we took the saddles off the horses, they fell, as they could only stand when in motion old Buggs fell again in going up the gorge; they all fell, they were so weak, and it took nearly an hour to get them up to the bath.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking