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Updated: May 6, 2025
'Festy, said the farmer reproachfully, 'you always know I use the old glove in the bedroom cupboard for any guinea or two I possess. 'Of course I do, said Festus ironically. They had now reached a lonely inn about a mile and a half from the hall, and, the farmer not responding to his nephew's kind invitation to come in and treat him, Festus entered alone.
I never shall think it unkind if you really can't come, you know, Festy. There was a few minutes' pause, and as the nephew said nothing Uncle Benjy went on: 'I wish I had a little present for ye. But as ill-luck would have it we have lost a deal of stock this year, and I have had to pay away so much. 'Poor old man I know you have. Shall I lend you a seven-shilling piece, Uncle Benjy?
'Champion passed me about an hour ago, when I was in hiding poor timid soul of me, for I had nothing to lose by the French coming and he looked awful with the stirrups dangling and the saddle empty. 'Tis a gloomy sight, Festy, to see a horse cantering without a rider, and I thought you had been feared you had been thrown off and killed as dead as a nit.
Being able to make nothing of it, he lengthened his strides, and treading on tiptoe overtook his relative, saluting him by scratching his back like a hen. The startled old farmer danced round like a top, and gasping, said, as he perceived his nephew, 'What, Festy! not thrown from your horse and killed, then, after all! 'No, nunc. What made ye think that?
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