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I won't, and so don't think it. Don't come to me. "Nice habits men learn at clubs! There's Joskins: he was a decent creature once, and now I'm told he has more than once boxed his wife's ears. He's a Skylark too. And I suppose, some day, you'll be trying to box MY ears? Don't attempt it, Mr. Caudle; I say don't attempt it.
Now you know what the scorpion who stung you's up against! You lie there and think about it, cocky; I'll show you his shirt tomorrow morning." "Suppose we go now," suggested Grim. "I've got the drift of this thing. Get the rest elsewhere." "You can fan that Joskins for a lot more yet," Jeremy objected. "The plug's pulled. He'll flow if you let him." Grim nodded. "Sure he would.
A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him. They said they were ready, and the boy on the landing stage took a boat- hook and shoved him off. What then followed George is unable to describe in detail.
"I ought to 'a' stopped when I see her out there top of the stone wall the last time I come by the handsomest turkey cretur I ever did see, and I've been in the poultry business this twenty years. I knew in a minute she belonged to that breed that old Mis' Joskins had; she fetched 'em from York State. She moved away before I knew it, and carried 'em all with her."
He also noticed, as a curious circumstance, that number two was at the same instant lying on his back at the bottom of the boat, with his legs in the air, apparently in a fit. They passed under Kew Bridge, broadside, at the rate of eight miles an hour. Joskins being the only one who was rowing.
Then he and eight other gentlemen of about the same age went down in a body to Kew one Saturday, with the idea of hiring a boat there, and pulling to Richmond and back; one of their number, a shock-headed youth, named Joskins, who had once or twice taken out a boat on the Serpentine, told them it was jolly fun, boating!
I may be back this afternoon, or I may be back to-morrow morning; but you take my advice, miss. Talk it over with the old gentleman, and raise the money somehow, for it really would go against me to have to sell you up. I'm to be heard of at the 'Chequers, miss William Joskins, at your service."
No, Stop; let's set it, and try and catch one." Tom stared. "I say," he cried; "why I read all about that in The Justice of the Peace, don't you know that it's punishable?" "Of course for the joskins, but they wouldn't say anything to a gentleman who did it for experiment." Tom laughed. "I shouldn't like a keeper to catch me doing it." "I said a gentleman," said Sam coolly.
All of those pretty pastoral delights are over. This dead, everlasting dead desk, how it weighs the spirit of a gentleman down! This dead wood of the desk instead of your living trees! But then, again, I hate the joskins, a name for Hertfordshire bumpkins. Each state of life has its inconvenience; but then, again, mine has more than one. Not that I repine, or grudge, or murmur at my destiny.
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