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She wiped her weather-worn face with a green and yellow silk handkerchief. "Yes, my lady!" Mrs. Cloke ran and returned swiftly. "Our land marches with Pardons for a mile on the south," she explained, waving the full cup, "but one has quite enough to do with one's own people without poachin'. Still, if I'd known, I'd have sent Dora, of course. Have you seen her this afternoon, Mrs. Cloke? No?
Poachers," he went on, "don't wear bell-crowned 'ats as a rule I never seed one as did; and so, while I was a-watchin' of you be'ind this 'ere 'edge, I argies the matter in my mind. 'Robert, I says to meself, 'Robert, I sez, 'did you ever 'appen to see a poachin' cove in a bell-crowner afore?
"I suppose they never stole any stuff from the hotel?" "That's jest it. They knew enough to keep on the right side of them people, you see, an' they did their poachin' in our woods. Any time they've been around it's always meant more work for us, and hard work, too."
He "frisked" the man nearest him upon the ground, and captured deftly the rascal's weapon: then he sprang up covering the twain. "Get up! Youse guys is poachin' in de wrong district dis belongs to de Muggins gang. I'll fix youse guys fer buttin' in. Up, dere!" His hands went into his coat pockets, but the men knew that they were still pointing at them, the gunman's "cover" as it is called.
There was even the observation of the costermonger leaning over his barrow near the Assize Court when one morning Sir Henry was going in with little Jack. "Gorblime, Jemmy! see 'im? The ole bloke's been poachin' agin. See what he's got?"
'Theer's that Oliver o' Deaf Martha's. Naa, I lay aught he's noan so mich, wi' his dog-feightin' and poachin'. His missis wur up here t'other day axin' for some milk for th' childer. Theer's awlus enugh for them. 'Yes, I believe that is so. 'It wur that dog as welly killed Moses Fletcher, wurnd it? 'I think it was, replied Mr. Penrose. 'And haa is owd Moses sin yo' dipped him o'er agen?
If I was startled at this sudden encounter he was no less so, and thus we stood eyeing each other as well as we might in the half light. "Well," I demanded, at last, "what do you mean by following me like this?" "I aren't follered ye," retorted the man. "But I heard your steps behind me." "Not mine, master. I've sat and waited 'ere 'arf a hour, or more, for a poachin' cove "
He had thought the matter at first too dangerous to touch. Moreover, he was at that moment in a period of transition, pestered by Minta to give up "the poachin'," and yet drawn back to it after his spring and summer of field work by instincts only recently revived, after long dormancy, but now hard to resist. Presently he turned with anger upon one of Minta's wails which happened to reach him.
Ye've a furtive look in your eye a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the reputation of an archangel! Don't attempt to deny it! Ye have! A sergeant? More shame to you, then, an' the worst bargain Her Majesty ever made! A sergeant, to run about the country poachin' on your pension! Damnable! Oh, damnable! But I'll be considerate. I'll be merciful.
He bore away till he was right before the wind, hoisted every scrap of sail he could carry, rigged out a spinnaker with his balloon fore-sail, and made a clean run for the coast of Denmark. Deakin explained the manoeuvre to Duncan. "The old man's goin' poachin'. He's after soles." "Keep a look-out, lads!" cried Weeks.
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