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"The devil!" muttered Aaron; "well then go and tell them that I am a bigger ostrich than ever, and that I will very soon astonish them; they may take my word for it." "Pegtop, you rascal," continued he, "come here.
I descended to the cabin, breakfast having been announced, and sat down to our meal, confronted by Paul Gelid and Pepperpot Wagtail. Presently we heard Aaron sing out, the small skuttle being right overhead, "Pegtop, come here, Pegtop, I say, help me on with my neckcloth so that will do; now I shall go on deck.
At the thicker end of these saplings he fastened, by a piece of fishing line, a small cross-bar, which swung loosely, like the stick handle which a schoolboy fastens to the string of his pegtop. Forcing the ends of the saplings thus prepared into the holes, he filled in and stamped down the earth all around them.
But, now, the Bird of Paradise was seen to flutter down the middle; and the little bells began to bounce and jingle in poussette; and the Doctor's rosy face spun round and round, like an expressive pegtop highly varnished; and breathless Mr. Craggs began to doubt already, whether country dancing had been made 'too easy, like the rest of life; and Mr.
With these words, Pegtop and the two other blacks, Chin-Chin and Zampa, Wagtail's and Gelid's servants, took a couple of guns apiece, and providing themselves with the necessary ammunition, went aft, and began carefully cleaning and oiling the weapons. I had expected that the wind would blow fresher at daybreak, but I was mistaken.
However, Mr Bang, after several unavailing attempts to press the money on the man, who, by the by, was simply a good looking blackamoor, dressed in a check shirt, coarse but clean white duck trowsers, with the omnipresent handkerchief bound round his head, and finding that he could not persist without giving offence, was about pocketing the same, when Pegtop audibly whispered him, "Massa, you ever shee black niger refuse money before? but don't take it to heart, massa; me, Pegtop, will pocket him, if dat foolis black person won't."
'He was such a fashionable cove: he was always 'a gadding about, mostly to Liverpool and Birmingham, and sometimes to Lunnun, itself. He was 'keeping company one time with Beauty, Governor thought, and he was awfully afraid he'd a married her; but that was all bosh and nonsense; and Beauty would have none of his chaff and wheedling, for she liked Tom Brice; and Milly thought that Dudley never 'cared a crack of a whip for her. He used to go to the Windmill to have 'a smoke with Pegtop; and he was a member of the Feltram Club, that met at the 'Plume o' Feathers. He was 'a rare good shot, she heard; and 'he was before the justices for poaching, but they could make nothing of it. And the Governor said 'it was all through spite of him for they hate us for being better blood than they. And 'all but the squires and those upstart folk loves Dudley, he is so handsome and gay though he be a bit cross at home. And, 'Governor says, he'll be a Parliament man yet, spite o' them all.
'And what's gone with the stile? demanded Milly, aghast. 'It's tore away from the paling! 'Well, so it be, replied the wood nymph in the red petticoat, showing her fine teeth with a lazy grin. 'Who's a bin and done all that? demanded Milly. 'Not you nor me, lass, said the girl. ''Twas old Pegtop, your father, did it, cried Milly, in rising wrath. ''Appen it wor, she replied.
'Blest if here isn't Pegtop, said Milly. And the weather-stained red coat, the swarthy forbidding face and sooty locks of old Hawkes loomed in sight, as he stumped, steadying himself with his stick, over the uneven pavement of the yard. He touched his hat gruffly to me, but did not seem half to like our being where we were, for he looked surlily, and scratched his head under his wide-awake.
They affected rather vulgar sealskin waistcoats, with the festoons of a long watch-chain meandering over them, above which they exhibited a huge expanse of black or blue satin, secured by two scarf-pins of the same design, linked together, like Siamese twins, by a little chain. A reference to Leech's drawings will show the flamboyant checked "pegtop" trousers in which they delighted.
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