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It whipped away up the stairs, and they seen the big snout snorting out at them through the banisters, and a bare back on it the same as a pig; and the two cheeks on it as white as yer own, and away with it! And with that Mary Anne got a wakeness, and only for Willy Fennessy bein' in the kitchen an' ketching a hold of her, she'd have cracked her head on the range, the crayture!"
And," added Jack, with a solemn wink, "it is remarkable, in a healthy country like this, how many epidemics come near ketching us." And with this mystifying explanation we joined the mysterious company of the Noble Seven. As we were dismounting, the cries, "Hello, Jack!" "How do, Dale?"
"Why, Master Mark," cried the chief man of the party in astonishment, "what you doing of?" "Can't you see, idiot?" cried Mark, with a fierce snap. "But what's the good of our ketching and tying on him?" cried the man addressed as Tom, in an ill-used tone. "Say another word, you brute, and I'll have you tied as you tied him," cried Mark fiercely.
But don't you think, sir, if we was to go higher up the river we could find a better place? It don't seem much good only ketching them there little hikong-sammylangs." "Eikon Sambilang, Pete. Don't you know what that means?" "That's what the niggers call them, sir. I suppose it's because it's their name." "Five-barbelled fish, Pete, eh?" "Just like them, sir.
"Don't you come in here; me and Billy's got the mumps and you-all 'r' little girls and ought n' to have 'em. Don't you come near us; they 're ketching." The two little girls immediately opened the gate, crossed the yard, mid stood in front of Billy.
Is it ketching?" "Is it KETCHING? Why, how you talk. Is a HARROW catching in the dark? If you don't hitch on to one tooth, you're bound to on another, ain't you? And you can't get away with that tooth without fetching the whole harrow along, can you? Well, these kind of mumps is a kind of a harrow, as you may say and it ain't no slouch of a harrow, nuther, you come to get it hitched on good."
"Miss Elinory, do you think getting married and such is ketching, like the mumps and chickenpox?" asked Eliza Pike as she sat on the steps at the daintily shod feet of the singer lady, who sat in Mother Mayberry's large arm-chair, swinging herself and Teether slowly to and fro, humming happily little vagrant airs that floated into her brain on the wings of their own melody.
This last remark, delivered with a broad grin of delight, had reference to the fact that the Captain had run the corner of his chest against the low roof of the passage with a degree of violence that shook the whole tenement. Holding his breath in hopeful anticipation, and reckless of the baby's "ketching cold," the small boy listened for more. Nor was he disappointed.
"Rabbit ketching," as midwifery is contemptuously termed in the vernacular, does require a status, and those who have need of it merit some consideration.
He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him.
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