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Raffles fished up the gun which had burst in Jack's hands that afternoon from behind the corn-chest, and held it up to the light. "A burst gun!" said Acton. "It's worth throwing away; no more." "It was worth this morning, say fifteen bob, before Bourne blew its ribs out." "Jove!" said Acton, "let me handle the thing." He looked at the torn breech, and whistled with involuntary horror.
I was on the top of the most tottering part of the pile one afternoon, when I saw a pair of bead-like eyes, and yes, I could swear to it a torn ear. But before I could spring to the ground they had vanished behind the corn-chest.
The odour of the Coon's afternoon cigar still hung about the place, and the stable was half dark, but as Acton had an idea that his conversation with Raffles would not be a short one, and the night was rather cold, they went in. "Fire away, Raffles. Start at the beginning." "Very good, sir," said Raffles, seating himself on the corn-chest. "Agreeable to instructions received from Mr. Acting "
Saunders uprose in wrath, for the soap was stinging furiously in the cut, and expostulated with Birsie with a handful of reins which he lifted off the lid of the corn-chest. "Ye ill-natured, thrawn, upsettin' blastie, ye donnart auld deevil!" he cried. "Alexander Mowdiewort, gin ye desire to use minced oaths and braid oaths indiscriminately, ye shall not use them in my stable.
Bill Blinder makes him no answer, but he goes avay into the stable, and there he soon artervards lays himself down a'tween the two piebalds, and dies, previously a writin' outside the corn-chest, "This is the last vill and testymint of Villiam Blinder."
Captain M'Intyre's eyes sparkled, and he was profuse in grateful acknowledgments; while Oldbuck, on the other hand, seizing the Earl's sleeve, endeavoured to intercept a present which boded no good to his corn-chest and hay-loft.
"I like to do everything I can for him," she explained, as Rorie watched her with an amused smile; "I'd wisp him down if they'd let me." She left the leather panel on Titmouse's back, hung up saddle and bridle, and skipped off to a corn-chest to hunt for apples.
This particular afternoon was to be the final appearance of the Coon, who was going to figure shortly as principal in some contest at Covent Garden, and Jack determined to miss no opportunity of catching the last wrinkles of the great professor's skill. Therefore, instead of sallying out as usual halfway through the performance in the stable, he sat on the corn-chest until Hill came in.
"By the mass," said Christie, "it is well talking, Sir Priest; but when ye consider that Gilbert has but two half-starved cowardly peasants to follow him, and only an auld jaded aver to ride upon, fitter for the plough than for manly service; and that the Baron of Avenel never rides with fewer than. ten jackmen at his back, and oftener with fifty, bodin in all that effeirs to war as if they were to do battle for a kingdom, and mounted on nags that nicker at the clash of the sword as if it were the clank of the lid of a corn-chest I say, when ye have computed all this, ye may guess what course will best serve your Monastery."
Captain M'Intyre's eyes sparkled, and he was profuse in grateful acknowledgments; while Oldbuck, on the other hand, seizing the Earl's sleeve, endeavoured to intercept a present which boded no good to his corn-chest and hay-loft.
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