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Updated: June 12, 2025
Now who, do you suppose, is at the bottom of all this Exmoor insurgency, all this western rebellion not that I say there is none, mind but who is at the bottom of it?" "Either Mother Melldrum," said I, being now a little angry, "or else old Nick himself." "Nay, old Uncle Reuben!" Saying this, Master Huckaback cast back his coat, and stood up, and made the most of himself.
So I rattled the ramrod down my gun, just to know if the charge were right, after so much walking; and finding it full six inches deep, as I like to have it, went boldly down the steep gorge of rock, with a firm resolve to shoot any witch unless it were good Mother Melldrum.
Mayhap I had not done so, nor yet enjoyed the spring so much, if so be I had not taken three parts of a gallon of cider at home, at Plover's Barrows, because of the lowness and sinking ever since I met Mother Melldrum. There was a little runnel going softly down beside me, falling from the upper rock by the means of moss and grass, as if it feared to make a noise, and had a mother sleeping.
Now who, do you suppose, is at the bottom of all this Exmoor insurgency, all this western rebellion not that I say there is none, mind but who is at the bottom of it? 'Either Mother Melldrum, said I, being now a little angry, 'or else old Nick himself. 'Nay, old Uncle Reuben! Saying this, Master Huckaback cast back his coat, and stood up, and made the most of himself.
And so it fell out, to a greater extent than even I desired; for all the parishes round about united in a sumptuous dinner, at the Mother Melldrum inn for now that good lady was dead, and her name and face set on a sign-post to which I was invited, so that it was as good as a summons.
'Lie down, lie down, John Ridd! cried Mother Melldrum, mocking me, but without a sign of smiling. The poor sheep turned, upon my voice, and looked at me so piteously that I could look no longer; but ran with all my speed to try and save him from the combat.
It may be supposed by all who know me, that I was taken hereupon with such a giddiness in my head and noisiness in my ears, that I was forced to hold by the crook driven in below the thatch for holding of the hay-rakes. There was scarcely any sense left in me, only that the thing was come by power of Mother Melldrum, because I despised her warning, and had again sought Lorna.
And so it fell out, to a greater extent than even I desired; for all the parishes round about united in a sumptuous dinner, at the Mother Melldrum inn for now that good lady was dead, and her name and face set on a sign-post to which I was invited, so that it was as good as a summons.
"Lie down, lie down, John Ridd!" cried Mother Melldrum, mocking me, but without a sign of smiling. The poor sheep turned, upon my voice, and looked at me so piteously that I could look no longer; but ran with all my speed to try and save him from the combat.
Mother Melldrum had two houses, or rather she had none at all, but two homes wherein to find her, according to the time of year. But throughout the winter, she found sea-air agreeable, and a place where things could be had on credit, and more occasion of talking.
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