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Updated: May 31, 2025
But a fortni't ago I'd a rare bit o' luck, I allays thought I was a lucky chap, for I niver set a trap but what I catched something; but this wasn't trap, it was a fire i' Torry's mill, an' I doused it, else it 'ud set th' oil alight, an' the genelman gen me ten suvreigns; he gen me 'em himself last week.
"Who's tellin this tale? you or me?" He put down his glass. "That there's a genelman." His eyes were down, and his hands upon his knees. He began to tell the story over in his own mind, but only here and there his tongue took fire and flashed a light upon the tale for the outsider to read by.
But Bill Jenkins was thoroughly thrashed thoroughly for he lay on the grass and blubbered like a great cowardly calf as he was. He did not say, "Yah-ah-ah-ha," now, but "boo-hoo-hoo-hooed" dreadfully; and at last came out "We shouldn't ha' touched you if that genelman hadn't given us a shilling each to pay you at out." "What gentleman?" said Harry.
He was living again. "They couldn't make nothing of it, and drew back a bit. "'What! cries the Genelman, laughin. 'A round dozen of you, and wopp'd by one! I wonder what Black Diamond'd think o you? "At that Fat George truss Dingy Joe by the arms. "'Ow's this? he squeals, and runs him on the Genelman's blade, dodgin back himself into Red Beard's arms.
'It's a rough passage, says he, 'but it's Ome right enough once you're there. "'Ome it is, says Pipes, and back goes his head, and he was h'off again. "Then the Genelman turn to one of the chaps. "'Just spread your coat on that dresser, my man, will you? he says. 'Now lift him gently. Don't wake him.
The cherub peeped into the hat, fingering a tanner. He was genuinely concerned for Mr. Silver. "If I put in a tanner, how'll I know Mr. Silver'll get it?" he asked ingenuously. Stanley jeered, and Jerry shot his chin forward. "Say, young Alf," he said. "Am I a genelman? or ain't I?" "That ain't 'ardly for me to say, Jerry," answered the cherub with delicate tact.
"Never mind him," replied Silver, keeping his broad scarlet back turned on the public-house and the face peering at him over the half-blind. "He's got some friends here," continued Monkey, in the same hushed monotone. "That's why he's gone inside. That tall genelman you was talkin' with. Very close they was at one time. Too close in a manner o' speakin'. See, you can be too close friends.
See 'em go in winter when you can't see the top of the steamboat's mast as she gets behind a sea. Many and many's the one I've seen go. They're used to it, but I once seen a genelman faint he was weak, poor fellow and we took aboard a dose of water that left us half-full.
'Given my chaps a taste o the stuff after all their trouble. And he says it so ot and uffy like that the Genelman, leanin against the wall, laughs. "The orse-captain heard him, and pokes in. "'Who's that? he says. "Then when he saw the Genelman agin the wall, he offs his helmet he knoo what was what did the orse-captain, I will say that. "'Can we do anything for you, sir? says he, hushed like.
I shall thank the madg'strates to dispose of this here little affair, and not to keep me while they read the paper, for I've got an appointment with a genelman in the City, and as I am a man of my word and wery punctual in business matters, he'll go away if I ain't there to my time, and then pr'aps ther won't be an action for damage against them as kep me away. Oh no, certainly not!
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