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Updated: June 7, 2025
The tax-gatherer attempted to drive away the ox, when the sturdy wife assailed him with her mop-stick and drove him from the premises. The exasperated people finally, in December, 1677, seized the public funds and imprisoned the governor and six of his councillors, called a new representative assembly and appointed a chief magistrate and judge.
Look at that arm; it's as thin as a mop-stick." "Well, it is thin, certainly; but a chap of your age, growing fast, generally is thin." "Ya! Growing! How can a fellow grow with a hole in his back?" "You haven't got a hole in your back. It's healing up fast." "'Taint." "Yes, it is. You haven't seen it, and I have every day. I say it's healing beautifully." "Ah, you'll say next that I ain't weak."
But the Doctor, "wid his dom jackass stubbornness," as she termed it, had forcibly taken the kettle from her hands and lifted it to the bracket. No sooner was it done than the whole thing, bracket, stove-pipe, and kettle of dinner went crashing to the floor; and without further ceremony she grabbed the nearest weapon to her, which happened to be the mop-stick, and assailed the intruder.
"As to that, maybe I have spun a tough one now and then," answered Jerry, with a quizzical look. "About losing your leg aboard the Thunderer, for instance," I remarked. "Well, I can't say quite so true as that, for I did lose my leg aboard the Thunderer. To be sure, it was my wooden one. Why, don't you mind, Ben, how you got a mop-stick and helped me to splice it?
"Oh!" she gasped in wistful-voiced soliloquy, as she leaned against her mop-stick and gazed aspiringly at the stage, "I wonder if I couldn't rise!" "Sure thing, you kin!" derisively assured Pete Noyes, vender of gum at matinees. "I'll speak to de maniger. Mebby he'll let youse scrub de galleries."
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