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Updated: May 16, 2025
There they sat, just as little children in the town might sit upon their father's door-step; and as the sparrows might fly around the feet of the little town children, so the circling flocks of rooks and daws flew around the feet of these air-born creatures.
"Usen't farm laborers to wear them once?" suggested Lilias. "But Shakespeare says, "'When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When ring the woods with rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks," objected Prissie. "Was it an upper or an under garment?" questioned Noreen. "I'm sure I don't know. I don't fancy we any of us possess 'smocks'!"
It was his old enemy, Daws Dillon, who had slain Joel Turner; Daws who had almost ruined Major Buford and had sent him to prison Daws had played no small part in the sorrows of the Deans, and on the heels of Daws Dillon he soon would be. "I suppose I am to go with you," said Harry. "Why, yes," said Chad, startled; "how did you know?" "I didn't know.
"Well, we can git him all right. I heerd that they was a-lookin' fer us an' was goin' to ketch us if they could." "I wish I knowed that was so," said Daws with an oath. "Nary a one of 'em would git away alive if I just knowed it was so. But we'll git CAPTAIN Chad Buford, shore as hell! You go tell the boys to guard the Gap ter-night. They mought come through afore day."
But today it is all a crumbling heap; ivy, rooks and daws hold the place in fee, each pushing hard for sole possession. It is eight miles from Warwick to Stratford by the direct road, but ten by the river. I have walked both routes and consider the latter the shorter. Two miles down the river is Barford, and a mile farther is Wasperton, with its quaint old stone church.
'Because if that is your religious feelings, Mary Daws, says Cook warmly, 'I don't know where you mean to go to. Mr Towlinson don't know either; nor anybody; and the young kitchen-maid, appearing not to know exactly, herself, and scouted by the general voice, is covered with confusion, as with a garment.
He always stood his ground fearing nor man, nor dog nor devil. Ten minutes later, the Squire took his seat on the platform, while the circuit-rider squatted down beside him. The crowd, men and women and children, took the rough benches. To one side sat and stood the Dillons, old Tad and little Tad, Daws, Nance, and others of the tribe.
My poor father, impoverished in purse, broken in health, sensitive in spirit, chooses to hide his wounds chooses not to wear his heart on his sleeve for the Devonshire daws to peck at chooses never to speak of his lost wife and, lo! all the gossips of the country are agape for the news. She was an actress, was she not, Sir Everard?
On the verandah, which led down to the garden and was decorated by lemon and pomegranate trees in tubs, and with cactus and aloe and flowering plants, stood a young girl of about twenty, scattering millet from two plates held by a barefooted child of twelve. At her feet were assembled hens, turkeys, ducks, pigeons, sparrows and daws.
If Mr. Daws expected York and Scott to shake hands after the sermon, he was disappointed. But he did not relax his purpose. With that quiet fearlessness and determination which had won for him the respect of men who were too apt to regard piety as synonymous with effeminacy, he attacked Scott in his own house.
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