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"Why, I was a-coming swimming after you, lads," shouted Hickathrift. "You scarred me. Squire's been down twiced to see if you'd got back, and the missus is in a fine way." "Don't talk, Hicky," shouted back Dick. "Is Jacob there?" "Ay, lad. Why?" "You'll want help. Look here, send for the doctor." "Doctor, lad?" "Yes; I know. Let Jacob go and tell my father, and he'll send down the old cob.
The boys made another appeal to the great fellow to come; but he was staunch. Still he uttered a sigh of relief as he gave the punt a tremendous thrust from the bank into deep water, where it went rustling by the willow boughs and over the wild growth where the pink-blossomed persicaria sent up its pretty heads. "If we had pressed Hicky a little more, I believe he would have come," said Dick.
I say, Hicky, may I have the punt to-morrow?" "Sewerly, Mester Dick, sewerly. I'll set Jacob to clear her oot a bit for you. Going fishing?" "Well no," said Dick, hesitating. "I was er thinking of doing a little shooting." "What at fend o' June! Nay, nay, theer's no shooting now." "Not regular shooting, but I thought I might get something curious, perhaps, right away yonder."
"Here, Grip, lad, find him, then find him, boy!" The dog uttered one low, growling bark, and then bounded off, hurrying here and there in the wildest way, while the boys watched intently. "Will he find him, Hicky?" said Dick huskily. "Ay, or anyone else," said the wheelwright, who alternately watched the dog, and swept the surface of the mere wherever the mist allowed. "There!
PHILIP BLAKE, P.P. Micky Hicky 0 7 6 "He might as well have made ten shillings: but half a loaf is betther than no bread." "Plase your reverence," says Mick, from the body of the chapel, "sure seven and six-pence is more than the half of ten shillings." "Oh! how witty you are. 'Faith, if you knew your duty as well as your arithmetic, it would be betther for you, Micky."
I say, Tom, you didn't think what old Hicky said was true, did you?" "N-n-no. Of course not." "Why, you did. Ha ha ha! That's what father and Mr Marston call superstition. I shall tell Mr Marston that you believe in will-o'-the-wisps." "Well, so do you. Who can help believing in them, when you see them going along over the fen on the soft dark nights!"
Hicky will leave anything to do it for me." "Nay, he's gone to market," said Dave. "Yes; I saw him pass our house," said Tom. "What a shame!" cried Dick. "Here, I say, what's that basket for in the punt?" he added eagerly. "Why, he's got a net, too, and some poles," cried Tom. "Yah! he meant to do something." "Why, of course he did," cried Dick, running down to the boat.
The figure, though only head and half his body were visible above the plashing water, looked large, and for a few moments in his confusion Dick was puzzled; but he realised who it was at last, and cried: "Why, it's old Hicky!"
"Oh, I believe in the lights," said Dick, "but that's all I don't believe they shot Mr Marston and old Hicky; that's all stuff!" "Well, somebody shot them, and my father says it ought to be found out and stopped." "So does mine; but how are you going to find it out? He thinks sometimes it's one and sometimes another; and if we wait long enough, my gentleman is sure to be caught."
I sha'n't be happy till I see you back safe." "I say, Hicky, you've got a gun, haven't you?" said Tom. "Eh! A goon!" cried the wheelwright, starting. "Yes; you've got one?" "An old one. She's roosty, and put awaya. I heven't hed her out for years." "Clean it up, and bring it, Hicky," said Dick. "We may get a shot at something. I say, you'd lend me that gun if I wanted it, wouldn't you?"
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