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Updated: May 1, 2025
The first of these was Robert Dellanow, known far and wide as "Snarley Bob," head shepherd to Sam Perryman of the Upper Farm. I say, the first; for it was he who had the pre-eminence, both as to intelligence and the tragic antagonisms of his life. The man had many singularities, singular at least in shepherds.
Dellanow, so I think I'll go 'ome and get my master 'is supper'; and she was just goin' down the stairs when all of a sudden he starts up in bed and sez, 'Do you 'ear that whistle blowin'? 'No, I sez, 'you've been dreamin'. There isn't nobody whistlin' at this time o' night. 'Yes, he sez, 'there is, and it blowed three times.
'Mr. Dellanow, he sez to me one day, 'I take a great interest in yer. 'That's a darned sight more'n I take in you, I sez, for if there's one thing as puts my bristles up it's bein' told as folks takes a' interest in me. 'Well, he sez, for he wasn't easy to offend, 'I want to 'ave a talk. 'What about? I sez.
In some respects, indeed, Robert Dellanow showed himself singularly deficient in moral graces. To the very end of his life he was given to outbreaks of violent behaviour as we have seen; and not only would he show no signs of after-contrition for his bad conduct, but would hint, at times, that his invisible companion had been a partner, or at least an unreproving spectator, in what he had done.
But instead o' that I shouts out at the top o' my voice though I can't tell what made me do it 'Shut up, all on you! Shut up, Henry Blain! Shut up, John Scarsbrick! Shut up, Robert Dellanow I'm tired o' the lot on you! That's what made me give up bein' a Methody. I began to see from that day that when things begins to open out you've got to shut up."
Whistle back, Polly, and then it'll be all right. And so he kep' on, again and again. "Mrs. Rowe, who'd come into the room, said to me, 'If I was you, Mrs. Dellanow, I'd fetch the whistle and blow it. It'll quiet 'im, and then p'raps he'll go to sleep. "You can understand, sir, that I was that upset I didn't know what I was doing.
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