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My implied assertion that I was a Christian was taken up as a great joke, and now they call me the 'pi'us jail-bird. As long as I felt at heart that I was a Christian, I did not care; but now their words gall me to the quick. I do not know what to think. It seems to me that if any one ever met with a change I did. I'm sure I wish to feel now as I did then; but I grow worse every day.
The man with the wooden gait and the bandage round his face strode up quickly to the dead snake, glanced at it and flung up his stick-like arms. "You jail-bird!" he cried in a hollow wailing voice. "What have you killed a grass snake for? What had he done to you, you damned brute? Look, he has killed a grass snake; how would you like to be treated so?"
"In the real Hindoostanee view of the subject, a convict in chains is nearly a native gentleman a little roué, perhaps employed on especial duties in the Company's service, for which he is well fed, and has little labour. A jail-bird can easily be distinguished after the first six months, by his superior bodily condition.
The others crowded eagerly about him. "Whew! look at the greenbacks!" cried one. "And gold!" shouted another. "He must have robbed a bank!" "There'll be a big reward offered for this chap." "He's a more desperate character than we thought." "A regular jail-bird!" "There's blood on some of these bills!" "He ought to be tied."
"Such a man as the Baron de Nucingen cannot be happy incognito," replied Corentin. "And besides, we for whom men are but cards, ought never to be tricked by them." "By gad! it would be the condemned jail-bird amusing himself by cutting the executioner's throat." "You always have something droll to say," replied Corentin, with a dim smile, that faintly wrinkled his set white face.
So you had better be reasonable, and take our advice while you can be made comfortable. 'Please, sir, I can't go against my promise, answered Stephen, with a sob. 'What's the use of wasting one's breath? said the master; 'this place I want, and this place I'll have; and we'll see if this young jail-bird will stand in my way.
"Yeh, three are at large somewhere, Ah reckon; but two of the worst ones out of that five are back yonder. Hank Johnson and his jail-bird pal are down on Four Mile Blaze. When we get the other three, we'll rid Oak Crick of five of its worst citizens." "Rattle-Snake Mike came up with us, Bill. We rode up the Indian Trail that's how we got here so soon.
But Beigh, alias Bay Billy, alias Handsome, was no ordinary and vulgar jail-bird, the officers told him, and, that he and they might sleep securely, they considered it advisable to carefully iron his hands. A couple of hours rolled away, and left Beigh still sitting moody and silent on the single bedstead in the Bowerton jail.
Perhaps they woke the offender up and rudely and summarily dragged him out and caged him at once and kept him thus prisoned throughout the nooning, a veritable jail-bird. A rather unconventional and eccentric preacher in Newbury awoke one sleeper in a most novel manner.
"I vote we kick the cow out of the town!" snarled One-eyed Bogan, viciously. "There's his wife and youngsters to consider, yer know." "He something well deserted his wife," snarled Began, "an' now he comes crawlin' back to her to keep him." "Well," said Mitchell, mildly, "but we ain't all got as much against him as you have, Began." "He made a crimson jail-bird of me!" snapped Bogan.
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