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Updated: June 17, 2025
While the Irishman and his wife pursue their distinguished career, Rorie and Vixen live the life they love, in the Forest where they were born, dispensing happiness within a narrow circle, but dearly loved wheresoever they are known; and the old men and women in the scattered villages round about the Abbey House rejoice in the good old times that have come again; just as hearty pleasure-loving England was glad when the stern rule of the Protector and his crop-headed saints gave place to the reign of the Merry King.
Crop-headed Puritans durstn't deny His Majesty's gentlemen riding by, With boot and saddle and tow-row-row! 'Good Lord! muttered my host, casting out his two hands in despair. 'More soldiers! But by this time I had my hand on the door. 'Guide me down the stairs, I commanded; 'down to the door! And, before you open it, quench the light!
'That is just what I want, said the king, and they played; and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end it was the king who was the winner. 'And what is the prize that you will choose? inquired the Gruagach. 'The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door, replied the king.
The officer turned away from him, glanced at the rest of the party, and seemed about to let them pass, when his eye fell upon the sturdy, crop-headed peasant already referred to. He immediately approached him. "Where do you come from?" said he, eyeing him with a look of suspicion. The sole reply was a stare of stupid surprise. The officer repeated the question.
Crop-headed children spat upon us from the bridges as we went below, with a true conservative feeling. But even more conservative were the fishermen, intent upon their floats, who let us go by without one glance. They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied. They were indifferent, like pieces of dead nature.
At the same time, she was perfectly and painfully conscious in the back of her brain that Amiel regarded her only as a sun-browned, crop-headed tomboy, who had an extraordinary facility for remembering all the poetry she had ever read, and who amused and interested him as his own small sister might.
'If you will take my counsel, you will play with someone else. 'No; I will play with the Gruagach, persisted the king. 'Well, if you must, you must, I suppose, answered the wizard; 'but if you win that game, ask as a prize the ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door. 'I will, said the king.
The sick man looked at Angela with awful, unseeing eyes, and then burst into a wild laugh "See them run, the crop-headed clod-hoppers!" he cried. "Ride after them mow them down scatter the rebel clot-pols! The day is ours!"
"I mean those crop-headed wenches," the talkative Ilya Petrovitch continued. "Midwives is my name for them. I think it a very satisfactory one, ha-ha! They go to the Academy, study anatomy. If I fall ill, am I to send for a young lady to treat me? What do you say? Ha-ha!" Ilya Petrovitch laughed, quite pleased with his own wit.
I was much struck with the language of one crop-headed young fellow of seventeen or eighteen, who, seeing me grope my way, said, "They're not very lavish with the gas here, sir, are they?" It may appear that this "experience" has little bearing on the Arab boys; but really some of the inmates of these kitchens were but boys.
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