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"Oh, I've been fighting it tooth and nail," answered the old gentleman, "but there are some things that always get the better of you in the end, Cupid, and the gout's one of them." "En rheumaticks hit's anurr," added Cupid, rubbing his knee. He rolled a fresh log upon the andirons and went out, while the Major returned, frowning, to his work.
"Near's I can tell from what I hear about you," retorted the Cap'n, "built on racin' lines as you be, you've never let a man git near enough to lick ye." Again the Colonel noted that red vengefulness in the skipper's eyes, and recoiled suspiciously. "Oh, my rheumaticks!" the seaman hastened to moan. Ward had his back to the fence.
"An' I can't say as yer looks is any credit to Frampton no, that aa can't." John, indeed, wore a sallow and pinched air, and walked lamely, with a stick. "Noa," he said peevishly; "it's a beastly place is Frampton; a damp, nassty hole as iver I saw gives yer the rheumaticks to look at it. I've 'ad a doose of a time, I 'ave, I can tell yer iver sense I went. But I'll pull up now."
Occasionally he checked himself in some alarm, to wonder what meant that ridging of the Cap'n's jaw-muscles, and whether he really heard the seaman's teeth gritting. Once, when he recoiled before an unusually demoniac glare from Sproul, the latter whined, after a violent inward struggle: "It beats all how my rheumaticks has been talkin' up lately.
"Faith, yer honour, I haven't tasted a dhrop of anythin' barrin' tay since yesterday noon at Eight Bells. May I die this minnit if I have, sor," boldly asserted the accused in a rich Irish brogue that was as distinct as the doctor's voice. "It's the rheumaticks, sure! I've got 'em in the legs bad this toime and can't hould mesilf up at all, nor walk more than a choild!"
"I cherished the opinion," drawled on Bill, while Gwen stuck her handkerchief into her mouth, "that mebbe they'd put up for it the seven hundred dollars, and, even as it was, seein' as The Pilot appeared to be sot on to it, if them fellers would find two hundred and fifty I cher " another shriek from Gwen cut him suddenly short. "It's the rheumaticks, mebbe," said Bill, anxiously.
"Shut up!" commanded the chief of the inquisition. "They say I'm crazy. But I know better. Here I am with rheumaticks! Don't you s'pose I know where I got 'em? It was by standin' out all het up where she had hitched me after she'd rid' me to one of the witch conventions. She " "Say, you look here!" roared the old showman; "you stay on earth. Don't you try to fly and take us with you.
'An I can't say as yer looks is any credit to Frampton no, that aa can't. John, indeed, wore a sallow and pinched air, and walked lamely, with a stick. 'Noa, he said, peevishly; 'it's a beastly place is Frampton; a damp, nassty hole as iver I saw gives yer the rheumaticks to look at it. I've 'ad a doose of a time, I 'ave, I can tell yer iver sense I went. But I'll pull up now.
'How do you find yourself, Ma'am? Do the rheumaticks keep off pretty well, Ma'am? We must all expect to grow into 'em, as we gets on. 'Thank you, said Miss Tox. 'I have not felt any inconvenience from that disorder yet. 'You're wery fortunate, Ma'am, returned Mr Toodle. 'Many people at your time of life, Ma'am, is martyrs to it.
"Scurvy, and fever, and rheumaticks, and flux, and the foul fiend knoweth what beside," replied Jones desperately. "Now Clarke hath still been warning me that you were so sib with the saints" "Nay, God forbid!" ejaculated Brewster.
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