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"Oh, it's not the hen cock I mane, sir," said the gossoon, "but the beer cock she was batin' the cock into the barrel, sir, wid the bootjack, sir." "That was decidedly wrong," said Murphy; "a bootjack is better suited to a heel-tap than a full measure." "She was tapping the beer, you mean?" said the little man.
I folded my portion of these dispatches small, wrapped them in thin gutta-percha, and, going to the most obscure shoemaker in the part of London which I knew, had the heel of one of my boots excavated and the packet deposited in the hole and covered over again by a stout heel-tap.
My summons came when we had shared the heel-tap of the bottle. It was my toast to this kind-hearted youngster, and we drained it standing what time the stair gave back the tread of marching men. Tybee crashed his glass upon the floor and wrung my hand across the table. "Good by, my Captain; they have come. God damn me, sir, I'll swear they might do worse than let you go, for all your spying.
"I think we are somewhere in the Atlantic; but your finding that heel-tap does puzzle me." "We are going to have an adventure, beside which all others of our lives will pale into insignificance. I feel it in my bones. See how evenly this road has been worn and it is leading toward the centre of the island."
All the lesser landmarks, as the old song says, "First upon the heel-tap, then upon the toe, Wheel about, and turn about, and do just so." Your topography is entirely dislocated. You must begin your acquaintance anew. Fresh lines and curves, new forms and faces and chameleon tints, thrust you off from the secrets of the Storm-Kings.
Whereupon Richard loosed his neckcloth to give him better breathing space, and bidding me see if the revelers had left a heel-tap of wine in any bottle nearer than the wine cellar, lifted the old man and propped him in the corner of the high-backed hall settle. The wine quest led me to the banqueting-room. Here disorder reigned supreme.
'Twas a quare world; a poor man had the chance of dying wid a rich man, but was not to be berrid in his company. Well, he supposed it was for the best," and here he hammered the heel-tap out of his pipe on the side of his shoe; "when the last bugle sounded a field-officer would feel uncomfortable like if he had to be looking for his bones in the same plot wid a lance-corporal."
This took the Englishman's breath away for a moment, then he remarked: "That accounts for the heel-tap we found; who knows, these people may be possessors of the richest gold and silver mines on earth." The bell rang again. "We are rising," said Johnston.
Bob acted as master of ceremonies, the Colonel and Brent were pledged to orations, while the three ladies and Mac constituted the vast throng of spellbound onlookers. Bip, having for the moment forgotten his fire crackers, was dancing with delighted anticipation. Zack was teeming with mirth abetted, no doubt, by a heel-tap or two from the Colonel's retiring goblet.
Remembrance of the corn-husking festivities, and the lads who, having found the red ears, kissed the lasses of their choice; of the dancing that followed double-shuffle, Kentucky heel-tap, pigeon wing or Arkansas hoe-down!
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