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Updated: June 17, 2025
The tragedians in the Bowery and Chatham Street of to-day don't start the shingles on the roof as their predecessors, now cold and stiff in death, used to when they threw themselves upon their knees at the footlights and roared a red-hot curse after the lord who had carried Susan away, swearing to never more eat nor drink until the lord's vile heart was torn from his body and ther-rown to the dorgs rattling their knives against the tin lamps and glaring upon the third tier most fearfully the while.
Why, it's knowed dreckly all round Mile End the werry 'ome of lorst dorgs and that there dorg, find him when you wool, why, he ain't worth more'n fourteen bob, sir. Now, 'ow d'ye 'count for that, sir?" "You've seen him, then?" "Not I," says Sam, unmoved even by a twitch; "but I knows a party as 'as, and it ain't likely, Mr. Orkins, as you'll get 'im by orferin' a price like that, for why?
Just at this moment Bill Haden who had returned from work at the moment that a boy running in reported that there was a row, that a horse was covered wi' blood, and two chaps all bluidy over t' hands and clothes, were agoing along wi' Jack and t' dorgs oop street to lock-oop arrived upon the spot. "What's oop, lad?" he asked as he came up.
He was after me with his dorgs, and saw me as I was crossin' the road near Franklin Schoolhouse. 'Halt, there! he hollored; but I was not in the haltin' bizness, and I made tracks fur Pigeon Crick close by. As I run he fired off his gun; but the light was dim and I was mighty peart, and dodged in time.
"Him wadin' in that ice-cold stream in mid-winter," grunted Blent. "Ain't he a scoundrel?" "Can't do nothin' more to-night," announced the constable, who didn't like the job any too well, it was evident. "And dorgs wouldn't do us no good." "Ha! ye know what ye gotter do," threatened Blent.
There was a few moments' silence and then he said: "Well, I am glad of that. I likes dorgs, and we was reg'lar good friends." "Hark!" I said; "is that Ike digging?" "No," he said; "it was some more sand tumbled down, I think." I knew he was right, for there was a dull thud, and then another; but whether inside or outside I could not tell.
His duties as guardian of the "dorgs" absorbed the greater part of his time, and as one or both of these animals generally accompanied him when he went beyond the door, few cared about having anything to say to him when so attended; for the guardianship was by no means entirely on his side, and however excellent their qualities and pure their breed, neither Juno nor Bess were animals with whom strangers would have ventured upon familiarity.
"Wal, stranger, I sorter reckon as how 'bout four bits 'ill squar' things dorgs is mighty durn cheap hereabout enyhow." "'But Lufra, whom from Douglas' side nor bribe nor threat could e'er divide," he protested. "Not that its name was Lufra, but he was a blame fine dorg." The woman turned on him like a flash, and he crept subdued back into his corner.
His thin lips writhed in a mocking smile, as he stood confronting Peleg and Abner, and looking first at one and then at the other: "Ef I don' furgit," he said at length, "that's 'baout the way I talked wen the war wuz a goin on, an if I rekullec, ye, Peleg, an ye, Abner Rathbun and Meshech Little, thar on the floor, tuk arter me with yer guns and dorgs caze ye said I wuz a dum Tory.
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