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"And so the auld carle," said Madge, repeating her words "I wish ye had seen him stoiting about, aff ae leg on to the other, wi' a kind o' dot-and-go-one sort o' motion, as if ilk ane o' his twa legs had belanged to sindry folk but Gentle George could take him aff brawly Eh, as I used to laugh to see George gang hip-hop like him!

Sentiment is, after all, a very fine thing, as I told Betsy Chambers the night I gave her the anchor brooch and asked her to wear it for auld lang syne, to say nothing of the good time we had when I took her to Maidenhead in old Moss's car and pretended I was broken down at Reading with a dot-and-go-one accumulator. Of course, Moss weighed in with an interview.

The night was come, the gang had just finished feasting, an orgy was beginning; the can of liquor was passing from mouth to mouth. A general cry broke forth "A song! a song from the Bat and Dick and Dot-and-go-One!" One of the blind men got up, and made ready by casting aside the patches that sheltered his excellent eyes, and the pathetic placard which recited the cause of his calamity.

One sight of him would easy your mind an old dot-and-go-one image!" "I got the idea the officers would look to catch you there. I did, Wix." "And I got the idea no such a thing!" Omission again before this last word. "Why in thunder do you suppose?... Shut to that door!" "There's no one there only old Nixon." "Who's he talking to?" "Nobody. Empty space!" "Tell you he is! Look and see."

Dot-and-go-One disencumbered himself of his timber leg and took his place, upon sound and healthy limbs, beside his fellow-rascal; then they roared out a rollicking ditty, and were reinforced by the whole crew, at the end of each stanza, in a rousing chorus.

"Don't be so jolly envious, Tanner," sneered Smith. "You couldn't have danced if you had gone." "Dance better than you could," cried Barkins hotly. "No, you couldn't. Fancy asking a young lady to waltz, and then going dot-and-go-one round the room with your game leg." "You've a deal to talk about, Smithy; why, if you asked a lady to dance you couldn't lift your right arm to put round her waist."

His aunt and her friends said, "How kind!" but Dickie hated it. The boys at school made game of it they had got used to the crutch and that was worse than being called "Old Dot-and-go-one," which was what Dickie had got used to so used that it seemed almost like a pet name. And on that first night of his return he found that he had been robbed.

Now this was the middle of the month of August, and "Benny" certainly was dressed for country wear. A dot-and-go-one suit of dittoes went for best, so to speak, with his curly red hair, and got the better of it by a long way. He had a white rose in his button-hole, and his manner was as smooth as Vacuum B from a nice clean can.

Just about seven o'clock next morning Nicky-Nan, who had breakfasted early and taken post early in the porchway to watch against any possible ruse of the foe for, Bank Holiday or no Bank Holiday, he was taking no risks spied Lippity-Libby the postman coming over the bridge towards him with his dot-and-go-one gait. Lippity-Libby, drawing near, held out a letter in his hand and flourished it.

He moved off with none of his usual grace; but retired like a very common place wooden-legged man, in a truly miserable dot-and-go-one style.