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Updated: June 13, 2025
The horses stood limply, as much out of the shade as in, the big swag leaned against the wall, the handcuffs lay half buried in the dust, but Tsing Hi had vanished. "Me sowl to glory! The little divil's scooted! It's a ruined man I am! In the name of the Saints, why is blasted Chinkees made with han's an' 'em like a 'possum? Look at the wee han's on 'em to slip out of darbies like the same.
Just at this point a dark form glided up behind the detective and dealt him a stunning blow on the head, felling him to the ground. "Thar, pardner, I reckon that beak won't git no furder with his pris'ner." Bordine was dumbfounded. Who was the rough-spoken man who had come to his rescue by perhaps dealing the detective a death-blow? "He put the darbies on, did he?"
"Help me pick him up," said Cummings, "and be quick about it, there's another beak around." "I can't. I've got his darbies on." Cummings stooped down, and lifting Chip in his arms, walked rapidly down the road toward the river. "What are you going to do with him, Jim?" "Chuck him through the ice. He knows too much."
I heard the man groan, and I came to his assistance." "That gammon won't do," replied one of them, who was a constable; "you'll come along with us, and we may as well put on the darbies," continued he, producing a pair of handcuffs. Indignant at the insult, I suddenly broke from him who held me, and darting at the constable, knocked him down, and then took to my heels across the ploughed field.
At last the engro seized the chal by the Belcher's handkerchief, which he wore in a knot round his neck, and do whatever the chal could, he could not free himself; and when the engro saw that, it gave him fresh heart, no doubt; 'It's of no use, said he; 'you had better give in; hold out your hands for the darbies, or I will throttle you'."
"Ay, master," said the jailer, "never fear; I'll keep word with you, as you seem to know something of what belongs to your station and mine. And hark ye, Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies." "Derby!" interrupted Julian, "Has the Earl or Countess " "Earl or Countess! Ha, ha, ha!" again laughed, or rather growled, the warden. "What is your head running on?
"That mought be true, for's aught I know; but it's mighty strange you never thought of that sarcumstance before." "Never was in limbo before." "That's the go, is't? Look-a-here, stranger, is it the darbies, or the crime, which brings the disgrace upon the family?
Touching my arm, he said, "White-Jacket, this here reminds me of Sing-Sing, when a draft of fellows in darbies, came on from the State Prison at Auburn for a change of scene like, you know!" After taking down four or five names, Mr.
Well, the worry moment their bellies was as long an' as loose as a o'-clo'-bag of a winter's mornin', I'd bring 'em all up to this 'ere winder, five or six at a time with the darbies on, mind ye Jim. And I'm to be there to see, Bill ain't I? Bill. If you're good, Jim, an' don't forget yer prayers. Jack. My eye! it's as good as a penny gaff! Go it, Bill. Bill.
And then we began to drink about, and then I betted he would not drink out a quartern of Hollands without drawing breath, and then he tried it, and just then Slounging Jock and Dick Spur'em came in, and we clinked the darbies on him, took him as quiet as a lamb; and now he's had his bit sleep out, and is as fresh as a May gowan, to answer what your honour likes to speir. This narrative, delivered with a wonderful quantity of gesture and grimace, received at the conclusion the thanks and praises which the narrator expected.
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