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I was just ready to burst when I found the gun, and the weight of it kept me from coming up rapidly." Daddy heard the lad through, and then, with a contemptuous sniff, he rose and hobbled up the path. "Don't forgit the terbacker," Mose Hocker shouted after him. The old man made no reply, and was soon out of sight.
Hocker was about to rejoin his companions when a dark figure came down the road and passed through a strip of moonlight which served to reveal his identity. It was Abner Peck, the farm hand. In response to a whispered command from Hocker the man jumped into the boat and pulled hastily across the wasteway.
Mose Hocker's boat was a large, heavy craft, built on the order of a bateau, and was admirably adapted to Randy's purpose. The boys paddled up stream a little until they were directly below the rock Hocker had designated. Then, while the boat drifted down with a barely perceptible motion, Randy hastily undressed. "It's a pity we didn't bring a fishing line along," observed Ned.
Whoever heard of a Princess leaving a Prince for a Dragon!" "But she wasn't the ordinary sort of Princess," I argued. "Then she's got to be," criticised Hocker. "Don't you give yourself so many airs. You make her marry the Prince, and be slippy about it. I've got to catch the four-fifteen from Chalk Farm station." "But she didn't," I persisted obstinately.
It took Randy but a short time to make up his mind, and walking over to Mose Hocker, he asked abruptly: "Could you tell me just where your gun fell in?" "I reckon I could if there was any need of it," was the drawling reply. "I happened to notice my bearings at the time.
It was a bitter disappointment, especially to Ned. Jeffries hastened to the spot as the party landed. "I'm awful sorry," he said, "but it couldn't be helped. The rascal must have heard some noise you made." "It's hard luck, that's a fact," muttered Hocker. "I'll square accounts with that scoundrel afore I'm many hours older.
Of course I'll speak a good word for him when he comes up for trial I'll promise you that and it may lessen his sentence." "Jeffries is right," said the farmer. "If a man will commit crimes he must suffer for them. Both fellows air guilty, no doubt." Bug threw a grateful glance at Ned, and then turned appealingly to Hocker.
He had less invention than Hocker, and perhaps was not so deliberately bad; but his attempt was a branch of the same tree, and it has its root in the ground where the scaffold is erected. Oxford had his imitators. Let it never be forgotten in the consideration of this part of the subject, how they were stopped.
Bent on loftier flights than such a poor house- swallow as a teacher in a Sunday-school can take; and having no truth, industry, perseverance, or other dull work-a-day quality, to plume his wings withal; he casts about him, in his jaunty way, for some mode of distinguishing himself some means of getting that head of hair into the print-shops; of having something like justice done to his singing-voice and fine intellect; of making the life and adventures of Thomas Hocker remarkable; and of getting up some excitement in connection with that slighted piece of biography.
The others liked the story better, but I hated it; and the wind sighed and died away. The little crowd becomes the reading public, and Hocker grows into an editor; he twists my arm in other ways. Some are brave, so the crowd kicks them and scurries off to catch the four-fifteen. But most of us, I fear, are slaves to Hocker.
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