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Updated: May 1, 2025
'I come to th' conclusion, says th' expert, 'that th' man, when he hooked th' watch, was sufferin' fr'm a sudden tempest in his head, a sudden explosion as it were, a sudden I don't know-what-th'-divvle-it-was, that kind iv wint off in his chimbley, like a storm at sea. 'Was he in anny way bug befure th' crime? 'Not a bit.
"Ain' no smoke comin' out'n her chimbley, lemme tell yo'." "Fill that wash-pan and get me a clean towel," ordered his master. He looked at his watch. "I'm going to awaken her, in half an hour." It was nearly seven o'clock when he stamped noisily into the sitting-room with towel and basin.
He said nothing more, but stood eyeing his colleague gravely. "You want something of me?" asked Bob. "No," denied Jack, "I don't know nothing I want of you. But I was told to come and get a piece of paper and maybe some money that a stranger was goin' to leave by our chimbley. It ain't there. You ain't seen it, by any chance?"
Budge Isham looked significantly at the landlord, but he had already drawn a glass of spirits and was coming from behind the bar with it. "Stranger, swallow this; you look cold; you're welcome to the Heavenly Bower, whether you come through the roof or down the chimbley." "Thank you; I'll take the whiskey in a minute."
There ain't any gold there only the poor child's hands, all over dirt, and like the very chimbley. Oh that I should ever see the day!" And the children thought this very noble of Martha, even if rather wicked, till they remembered how the Fairy had promised that the servants should never notice any of the fairy gifts.
"I won't." A long silence. "Madge!" "Yes, mother." "Thee go to the fire. Dost thee see that brick in the chimbley as sticks out a little way?" "Yes." "Pull it out." Madge caught hold, and after a few tugs pulled the brick out. "Put thee hand in!" Madge thrust hand and arm into the cavity, and brought out a dirty stocking. "Has thee got th' stocking?" "Yes, mother."
"Then he said he see an evil kind o' smile on Ketury's face, and she rattled her necklace o' bones and snakes' tails; and her eyes seemed to snap; and she looked up the chimbley, and called out, 'Come down, come down! let's see who ye be.
Gridley," she answered, "if there ain't somebody to be chated somehow, then I don't know an honest man and woman from two rogues. An' have n't I heard Miss Myrtle's name whispered as if there was somethin' goin' on agin' her, an' they was afraid the tahk would go out through the doors, an' up through the chimbley? I don't want to tell no tales, Mr.
"Thet's whar you'd be lyin'! That yar heat kem out of the bowels of the yearth, kem up like out of a chimbley or a blast, and kep up that yar fire. And when she cools down a month after, and I got to strip her, there was a hole in the yearth, and a spring o' bilin', scaldin' water pourin' out of it ez big as your waist. And right in the middle of it was this yer."
There ain't any gold there only the poor child's hands, all over crock and dirt, and like the very chimbley. Oh, that I should ever see the day! And the children thought this very noble of Martha, even if rather wicked, till they remembered how the Fairy had promised that the servants should never notice any of the fairy gifts.
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