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"It would be anything but well. I don't gallop back, depend upon it." The three men now slowly returned from their useless chase, and re-trod the way they had passed once in such a hurry that they could hardly recognize it. "What a dreadful bump I came against that pole standing there," said one. "Yes, and I came against a hedge-stake, that was placed so as the moon didn't show any light on it.
I wonder the lively fancy of Hogarth never sketched the dull historian, in the figure of an ass, plodding to market under his panniers, laden with the fruits of antiquity, and old time driving up the rear, with his scythe converted into an hedge-stake.
Bang! went the other barrel, which the hare acknowledged by two or three stotting bounds and an increase of pace. 'Well missed! exclaimed Mr. Sponge. Away went Ponto in pursuit. 'P-o-o-n-to! shrieked Jog, stamping with rage. 'I could have wiped your nose, exclaimed Mr. Sponge, covering the hare with a hedge-stake placed to his shoulder like a gun.
Hit it!" I looked on either side of the deep fireplace, and found but a half-charred hedge-stake with which I punched a black log into flame. "It never goes out, day or night," she said, as though explaining. "In case any one conies in with cold toes, you see." "It's even lovelier inside than it was out," I murmured.
For the credit of human nature, we regret that even then, when civilisation and popular education had by no means made such rapid strides as in our times they have, such a proposition should be entertained for a moment: but so it was; and just as an alarm was given that a party of the soldiers had reached the inn and had taken possession of the doorway with a determination to arrest the rioters, a strong hedge-stake had been procured, and everything was in readiness for the perpetration of the horrible deed.
I got a hedge-stake, and awaited my fate, from very shame. At this moment, to my great delight, there arrived from the fort an English officer, two artillery-men, and a Malay captain; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a minute afterward.
I ran to the ditch, however, but could see nothing but a pool of blood. Coming back, I found on the ground a thick hedge-stake covered with blood. The grass by the ditch was very much stamped and trodden. I said, "There has been a desperate struggle." He said, "Mr. Lascelles was a very strong man." I said, "Yes; as strong as you, Mr. Manners." He said, "Not quite; very nearly though."
He had not expected flagrant cowardice like this. He made a sudden spurt forward and caught Henson by the tail of his coat. With a howl of fear the latter tore himself away, and Merritt reeled backwards. He came down heavily over a big stone, and at the same moment Henson trod on a hedge-stake. He grabbed it up and half turned upon his foe.
But the inclination for a run, encouraged by confidence in his luck, and by a draught of brandy from his pocket-pistol at the conclusion of the bargain, was not easy to overcome, especially with a horse under him that would take the fences to the admiration of the field. Dunstan, however, took one fence too many, and got his horse pierced with a hedge-stake.
The girl seated herself lightly upon the wood-work at his side, and put one of her hands, which had grown white in her new and easy service, about his thick neck. "Are you glad to see me, Luke?" she asked. "Of course I'm glad, lass," he answered, boorishly, opening his knife again, and scraping away at the hedge-stake.
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