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It was not long before he was able to gratify this wolfish taste, and in the confusion which followed the assault upon the Ohinemutu pa the missionary premises were looted. They were at the time in charge of two young assistants, Knight and Pilley the former being a nephew of Marsden. Both were felled to the ground, wounded and stripped of their clothes.
Notwithstanding the deep and varied experience he had passed through, his unwillingness to expose himself as a preacher of the gospel was still strong, and sometimes obstructed the performance of his duty. 8 mo. 20. Joseph Wood had a public meeting at Pilley.
At the back of the church were gathered Harry Hobbs, young Pickles, and others of the less important attendants of the church, who had been induced to remain by the rumour of a "scrap." By a fatal mischance, the pliant Nathan Pilley was elected chairman.
"Well," said the chairman, squirming under the unpleasant experience of being forced to a definite answer, "I suppose, yes." Miss Quigg turned from the squirming and smiling Mr. Pilley in contempt. "Then," she said, "I say no. And I believe there are many here who would say no and men, too."
An' two they give out with th' cold, an' wuz dead afore mornin', but th' steamer as had lost us in th' fog she jist sudden loomed up, all ter once, an' took Tom Pilley an' me off an' we wuz saved. I mistrust that's jist how I feels again now." The girl turned her eyes towards me, and they were moist.
"I guess he's doin' his best, Nathan Pilley," answered another man, stout and stocky, with bushy side whiskers flanking around a rubicund face, out of which stared two prominent blue eyes. "Oh, I reckon he is, Mr. Boggs. I have no word agin Hayes," replied Nathan Pilley, a North Ontario man, who, abandoning a rocky farm in Muskoka, had strayed to this far west country in search of better fortune.
We're behind a few hundred dollars, but if some one will go about wi' a bit paper, nae doot the ar-rear-rs wad soon be made up, and everything wad be ar-richt." "Exactly," said Mr. Pilley pleasantly. "Now will some one offer a motion?" Thereupon Mr. Hayes was instantly upon his feet, and in a voice thin and rasping exclaimed: "Mr.
Pilley set forth in a somewhat general way the steps leading up to this meeting, and then called upon Mr. Innes, the chairman of the Board of Management, to state more specifically the object for which it was called. Mr. Innes, who was incurably averse to voluble speech, whether public or private, arose and said, in rolling Doric: "Weel, Mr. Chair-r-man, there's no much to be done.
Chairman, there's business to be done, and we are here to do it, and we're not going to be rushed through in this way." "Exactly, Mr. Hayes, exactly," said Mr. Pilley. "We must give these matters the fullest consideration." Then followed a silence. "Perhaps Mr. Hayes " continued the chairman, looking appealingly at that gentleman. "Well, Mr. Chairman," said Mr.
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