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They'm none of 'em overmuch took with it, I reckon, for they allays counted on 'im havin' Joan Hocken: her's another cousin, and another nice handful, by all that's told up." Reuben's spirit groaned within him. "Oh, if I'd only known of this before!" he said. "I'd have kept her by force from going, or if she would have gone I'd have gone with her.
He had got his coat and shirt off, and was in the act of taking off his trousers when Hocken, in sinking, caught him by the legs and dragged him down a considerable depth. His trousers luckily came off clear, and he swam to the surface, bringing the drowning man with him. Hocken was now insensible.
"Eh, 'Bias? Is that you? and still takin' an interest in agriculture?" The shaft went home. 'Bias's voice shook as he replied "I mayn't know much about education, at two minutes' notice; and I mayn't pretend to know much about ploughin' and wear a button in my coat to excuse it. But I reckon that for a pound a side I could plough you silly, Cai Hocken."
Troy with its many amenities has a deplorable appetite for gossip; and to this appetite the contention of Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken for Mrs Bosenna's hand gave meat and drink. The sporting ones laid bets.
They don't marry again, because the Bible says so: but how some contrytomps is to be avoided I don't see." Chiefly through the loyalty of these three, some weeks elapsed before the breach of friendship between Captain Caius Hocken and Captain Tobias Hunken became a matter of common talk.
The choir in the gallery craned forward, for the church-door was right beneath them. Parson Babbage held up his hand, and screamed out over the hubbub "Where's she to?" "Under Bradden Point, an' comin' full tilt for the Raney!" "Then God forgive all poor sinners aboard!" spoke up a woman's voice, in the moment's silence that followed. "Is that all you know, Gauger Hocken?"
"Something like this, 'Presented to Caius Hocken, Master of the Hannah Hoo, on the Occasion of his Retirement. By his affectionate undersigned': then the names, with maybe a motto or a verse o' poetry if space permits." "What sort of poetry?" "Eh? . . . 'Tell ye the truth, I didn' know till this moment that there were different sorts. Well, we'll have the best."
Well, they've made me President this year." "More honours?" "And I've offered a Cup; which seemed the proper thing to do, under the circumstances. 'A silver cup, value 5 pounds, presented by the President, Caius Hocken, Esquire': it'll look fine 'pon the bills, and it's to go with the first prize of two guineas for sailin' boats not exceedin' fourteen feet over-all.
"Which," explained Mrs Bowldler with a glance at Palmerston, "I had to lodge a complaint with Captain Hocken yesterday relative to its conversation, and he must have spoken about it; for Captain Hunken went out at eight o'clock taking the bird with him, cage and all, and when he came back they were minus." Fancy pondered. "What did the parrot say?" she asked. "You mustn't ask, my dear.
Cai, though with rising temper, kept his nonchalance. "With you and me the creatur' don't feel the temptation, and consikently there's a side of his character hidden from us. But in female company it comes out. You may depend that's the explanation." "Why, of course it is," chimed in Mrs Bosenna with sudden suspiciously sudden conviction. "How clever of Captain Hocken to think of it!"
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