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"Yes, yes," they shouted, as they walked clumsily to the ice edge, Dick first, and as he glided on there was an ominous ringing crack which seemed to run right out with a continuous splitting noise. "Will it bear, Hicky?" "Ay, she'll bear you, lad, only keep well out, and away from the reeds."
"I shall eat as much as ever I can, and make mother give Hicky a piece o' chine." "So will I," said Dick; "and a couple o' chickens." The hungry lad had taken a piece of pink-fleshed bacon upon his fork, and was about to transfer it to his mouth, when he stopped short with his lips apart and eyes staring, while Tom let fall his knife and thrust his chair back over the stone floor.
"Why, lad, I'm a man full o' what do you call that when a chap wants to get on in the world?" "Ambition, Hicky." "That's it, Mester Dick. I'm full on it, bud I've nivver hed a chance. You see I've had to mend gates, and owd carts, and put up fences. I did nearly get the job to build a new barn, bud I lost it, and all my life's been jobs." "And what now?" said Dick warmly. "What now, lad!
"Hey, lads, and I thowt you two was such friends!" cried the herald of peace, who had sung truce in so forcible and convincing a way. "Let go, Hicky! He struck me." "Yes; let me get at him," cried Tom. "He knocked me down." "And I'll do it again a dozen times," panted Dick. "Let go, Hicky, I tell you!" "Nay, nay, nay, lads, I wean't let go, and you sha'n't neither of you fight any more.
"I wish you could have come with me, Hicky!" said Dick, as, laden with his basket of fishing-tackle and provender, he took his place in the punt. "Ay, and I wish so too," said the wheelwright, smiling, as he drew up and uncovered the pail of bait to set it in the boat. "Bud too busy. Theer you are! Now, go along, and don't stop tempting a man who ought to be at work. Be off!"
They don't mind you fishing or going after the eels with the stong-gad; but they don't like the draining, and you see if it don't come to harm!" "Nonsense!" cried Dick. "But I say, Hicky, you are so quiet about it all, did you see who it was shot at you?" The big wheelwright looked cautiously round, as if in fear of being overheard, and then said in a husky whisper: "Ay, lads, I seen him."
But if they dared not shout, there was some one near at hand ready to utter a lusty cry, which startled them as it rang out of the gloom from away down by the labourers' cottages and the wheelwright's. "Ahoy! Hillo!" rang out. "Hillo, Hicky!" yelled Tom. "Here!"
"Nor yet knock one side off like he did with the sled," replied Dick with a very vivid recollection of one of Solomon's feats. "Now, then, open the gate and let's pop the harness on. Stop a minute till I get a stick." "Get a thick one," said Tom. "Pooh! he don't mind a thick stick; he rather likes it. Hicky says it loosens his skin and makes him feel comfortable. Here, this will do.
Don't make a noise." "But " "No, no; don't stop. We don't know what it is. Perhaps it's one of those things Hicky talks about that he has heard sometimes." "Father says it's all nonsense, and there are no such things in the fens." "He'd better say there are no will-o'-the-wisps to lead people astray," whispered Tom. "He doesn't say that.
Dick nodded and glanced at him; and then, as he ran on again, the lad ground his teeth. "It's a shame!" he cried. "Why, old Hicky thinks now that there's something wrong. I'll serve that old stupid out for all this; see if I don't!"
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