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Updated: May 22, 2025
"We called that evil which God sent for good," said Fabens. "I know not what we are coming to," sighed neighbor Nimblet. "But, we done some good, our lambs and geese are safe, sense we pisoned the animals," said Colwell, cheering up his heart. "I have noticed that the woods looked very yellow of late," said neighbor Nimblet. "What can be the cause of that?
He would stand awhile looking down; and then he would toss back his shock of hair, and laugh hoarsely, and spit, and bring forward a new subject. A man, he told us, who bore a grudge against him, had poisoned his dog. "That was a low thing for a man to do now, wasn't it? It wasn't like a man, that, nohow. But I got even with him: I pisoned his dog."
Every time 'e went out he took it with 'im in a hamper, and, to prevent its being pisoned, he paid Isaac Sawyer, who 'ad the biggest family in Claybury, sixpence a week to let one of 'is boys taste its milk before it had it. The second year it was ill twice, but the horse-doctor that George Barstow got for it said that it was as 'ard as nails, and with care it might live to be twenty.
"I suppose it's cowardly; but who can help it, hearing them ugly, slimy things chopping the water and gnashing their teeth at you? I want to know what such things as them was made for. Talk about Malays and pisoned krises! Why, I would rather meet hundreds of them.
Yes, all pisoned," cried Mammy Crissobella at the highest pitch of her voice, and rushing out of the room. At this announcement, I started from my chair and clasped my hands, as if in agony. I looked round me never did I witness such a variety of horror as was expressed in the different faces at the hotel.
"What cares he?" cried a tall, thin man, with a slight stoop and gold spectacles. "Does he not poison the air every day with the smoke of his coal fires?" "Pison the air!" repeated a battered, blear-eyed reprobate. "He pisoned my soul. He ruined me with promiskus charity. Whenever I was stoney-broke 'e give me doles in aid, 'e did. 'E wos werry bad to me, 'e wos.
At this communication, the truth of which appeared confirmed by the woman's behaviour, all the company started from their chairs. "Gemmen, I dare say you all very sorry; you be more sorry by-and-by. Now I tell all company, all drink the pison water because I not like die on the jibbit, I drink de pison water Gemmen your dinner all pison, and you all pisoned.
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