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He now said that Bunty Williams had two patches, one that he was going to sell the melons out of, and the other that he was going to let them go to seed in; and it was the second melon patch that he had deserted. But pretty soon after they got over the river he came back and walked with the rest of the boys, and when they came to a piece of woods which they had to go through, he dropped behind.
"Escaped, Lord no, sir, they've only run avay, I can allus put my 'ooks on 'em, I spotted 'em, d'ye see. And I know 'em, Lord love you! like a feyther! They vas Bunty Fagan, Dancin' James, and Vistlin' Dick, two buzmen an' a prig." "What do you mean?" inquired Barnabas, beginning to eye the man askance for all his obtrusive mildness. "I means two pickpockets and a thief, sir.
"Sir, d' ye mind a cove o' the name o' 'Vistling Dick, as got 'isself kicked to death by an 'orse?" "Yes." "And d' ye mind another cove commonly known as 'Dancing Jimmy, and another on 'em as is called 'Bunty Fagan'?" "Yes, they tried to rob me once." "Right, sir, only I scared 'em off, you'll remember.
Captain Woolcot ascribed the peculiar tendency to the fact that the child had once had a dropsical-looking woolly lamb, from which the utmost pressure would only elicit the faintest possible squeak: he said it was only natural that now she had something so amenable to squeezing she should want to utilize it. Bunty was six, and was fat and very lazy.
Then the teacher said he didn't see how he was going to keep himself from whipping me soundly, he felt so much that way, and he said it in such an awful tone that all the others were pretty scared, too, and quite still, all of them but just one one scholar on the girls' side, who giggled right out loud and I know you will hardly believe it when I tell you that it was Bunty Bun!
I took your half-hour, and you must take mine instead, from half-past four till tea-time." "Right-o! But did Bunty come in?" "Yes; and I told her I wanted to go out with Nesta this afternoon. So I do." "You don't think anybody suspects?" "Not a soul!" Diana came close, and laid a hand on her room-mate's arm. "Loveday, I'll never forget what you've done for me to-day never!
They couldn't help laughing a bit; Bunty was always so irresistibly comic when he was hurt ever so little; but still they comforted him as well as they could, and tried to find out what had happened. Esther came in presently, looking very worried. "Well?" they said in a breath. "You really are the most exasperating children," she said vexedly.
"Now go home, Bunty; I want to have a quiet walk in the moonlight by myself." He screwed his knuckles as far into his eyes as they would go, his mouth opened, and his lower lip dropped down, down. "I t t told y y you a b b big st st story;" he wept, rocking to and fro where he stood. "Did you? Oh, all right! Now go home," she said impatiently.
I suppose it's because the world's round, and I'll be walling in at the school gate again presently." "Don't be an idjut!" Bunty said gruffly. "You'll be sure and certain, Marian, never to breathe a word of it; I've trusted you, and if you keep faith I can go home and come back and no one will know. And lend me two shillings, can you? I've not got much left.
So I got down on my knees and dug and dug with my hands in the cold, sticky dirt, until I got the roots all up for her, and my hands were quite numb and a sight to look at. Then we hurried on to school, for it was getting late. "When we got to the door I pushed the flower plants under the edge of the house, and we went in, Bunty ahead of me.
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