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The mob upon the wall howled with rage, shook their fists and hurled stones and all manner of things after us. Poor old Bumpo got hit on the head with a bottle. But as he had a very strong head it only raised a small bump while the bottle smashed into a thousand pieces. When we reached the ship's side the Doctor had the anchor drawn up and the sails set and everything in readiness to get away.
"It's a man and a big one. Climb in there, both of you, and haul him out. It sounds as though he were behind that barrel Gosh! We seem to have brought half of Puddleby with us. Anyone would think we were a penny ferry-boat. Such cheek! Haul him out." So Bumpo and I lit a lantern and climbed over the stores.
"Would it not be advisable," suggested Bumpo, "while the varlet is still sleepy, to strike him on the head with some heavy object and push him through a port-hole into the sea?" "No. We'd get into trouble," said Polynesia. "We're not in Jolliginki now, you know worse luck! Besides, there never was a port-hole big enough to push that man through. Bring him upstairs to the Doctor."
He turned it over and over in his paws. Then, with his fingers, he tried to pull it apart. But he could not do it. The nut was too hard for him. Next he tried to bite it open, but he could not. "Let me try. I can open it!" exclaimed Jacko. "No, I'll do it," said Mappo. "If you can't, I can," spoke Bumpo, and he gave a jump over toward Mappo, and once more he hit his head on a branch, Bumpo did.
"How did you like the life at Oxford?" asked the Doctor. "Oh, passably, passably," said Bumpo. "I liked it all except the algebra and the shoes. The algebra hurt my head and the shoes hurt my feet. I threw the shoes over a wall as soon as I got out of the college quadrilateral this morning; and the algebra I am happily forgetting very fast I liked Cicero Yes, I think Cicero's fine so simultaneous.
Long Arrow, who was the only Indian let into the secret of our destination, said he would like to come with us as far as the beach to see the Great Snail; and him Polynesia told to be sure and bring his collection of plants. Bumpo she ordered to carry the Doctor's high hat carefully hidden under his coat.
And I am afraid that the work I took up when I assumed the crown I must stick to. I'm afraid I've got to stay." "For good for your whole life?" asked Bumpo in a low voice. For some moments the Doctor, frowning, made no answer. "I don't know," he said at last "Anyhow for the present there is certainly no hope of my leaving. It wouldn't be right."
Bumpo sank fainting to the floor. The famous Pike chieftain never recovered from the deceit, and refused to marry Genevra, who died, twenty years afterwards, of a broken heart. Judge Tompkins lost his fortune in Wild Cat. The stage passes twice a week the deserted cottage at Donner Lake. Thus was the death of Muck-a-Muck avenged.
Bring me the small one with blue pencil-marks at the top. I know Penzance is over here on our left somewhere. But I must find out what light-houses there are before I change the ship's course and sail inshore." "Very good, Sir," said Bumpo, turning round smartly and making for the stairway. "Now Matthew," said the Doctor, "you can take the coach from Penzance to Bristol.
The Doctor the quiet, kindly, peaceable, little Doctor! well, you wouldn't have known him if you had seen him that day dealing out whacks you could hear a mile off, walloping and swatting in all directions. As for Bumpo, with staring eye-balls and grim set teeth, he was a veritable demon. None dared come within yards of that wicked, wide-circling door-post.
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