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Updated: May 31, 2025
Now it's so fine, I want for us to go and collect things, and I'm not going to be beaten over that stuffing. Next time I shall look at a live bird ever so long before I try to stuff one, and then you'll see. We'll be on the watch next time, so that old Eely shan't catch us, and ha, ha, ha!
Now, with his horned head and its glowing eyes thrust forward, wings flapping from his shoulders and his eely body ending in a fish's tail wriggling far behind him, this strange and evil creature was a thing of terror even to the sea dwellers, who were accustomed to remarkable sights.
"Oh, but I'm not going to," he replied; "I'll be as quiet as can be, and let old Eely say and do what he likes for the present. I feel as if I can bear it now. Don't you? There, come along up into the loft, and let's see if we can find our ferret. It does seem hard to lose that directly. Just, too, as one finds one has been cheated by old Magglin. I wish he'd sell that gun.
I wish I had known that when old Eely was giving it to me t'other day. Why, I feel as if I could go and lick him now." "I daresay you do," cried Lomax laughing. "Now, let's have that over again.
"You don't want to fight. It's like being a soldier a British soldier, sir. He don't want to fight, and he will not if he can help it. He always hangs back because he knows that he can fight. But when he does well, I'm sorry for the other side." "Then you think I could lick Eely if he knocked me about, or big Dicksee?" "No, I don't think anything about it, my boy. You wait.
I say," he whispered darkly, "I don't wonder at chaps stealing sometimes, if they feel like I do." "What nonsense!" I cried: "I say, here's Eely coming back." "Is he?" said Mercer sharply. "Then I'm off in." "Why, you're never going to be such a coward as to be bullied into obeying his orders." "Oh yes, I am," replied my companion. "Time isn't ripe yet. But when it is oh!"
"Come on." As soon as we were out of sight of the cottage, Mercer laid an arm on my shoulder. "I can't say what I want to," he said quickly, "but I liked that, and I won't ever forget it. If ever old Eely hits you, I'll go at him, see if I don't, and I don't care how hard he knocks me about, and if ever I can do anything for you, to save you from a caning, I will, or from any other trouble.
I will thrash him till he can hardly crawl, and then, when he is weak and miserable, I'll tell him all I have found out, and make him go and put the watch back where Eely can find it, and then it will never be known who took it, and Mercer will not be expelled in disgrace as a common thief. Why, it would break his mother's heart!"
"You coward! you miserable old Eely tailor!" "Hold your tongue, will you!" cried Burr major, turning sharply round and giving Mercer a savage kick as he lay on his back, with one boy sitting on his chest, another on his legs. "Brute!" cried Mercer, setting his teeth and trying hard not to let the tears come. "You great long coward!" I cried; "you wouldn't dare to do that if he were not down."
I sat down by the window at last, to let the cool breeze play upon my aching temples, and as I leaned my head against the side, the cheery voices of the boys in the field floated up to me, to make me more wretched still. "It's nothing to them," I said to myself. "Nobody there cares, and Eely and Dicksee were only too glad to have their revenge upon me.
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