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Updated: May 15, 2025
"That will do," said the man; "that's the kind of prayers for me and my family, ar'n't they, wifelkin? I never heard more delicate prayers in all my life! Why, they beat the rubricals hollow! and here comes my son Jasper. I say, Jasper, here's a young sap-engro that can read, and is more fly than yourself. Shake hands with him; I wish ye to be two brothers."
My rapid progress in the former astonished, while it delighted, Jasper. ‘We’ll no longer call you Sap-engro, brother,’ said he; ‘but rather Lav-engro, which in the language of the gorgios meaneth Word-master.’ ‘Nay, brother,’ said Tawno Chikno, with whom I had become very intimate, ‘you had better call him Cooro-mengro, I have put on the gloves with him, and find him a pure fist-master; I like him for that, for I am a Cooro-mengro myself, and was born at Brummagem.’
'I should think not, he looks so puny and small. 'Hold your peace, fool! said the man; 'he can do more than that I tell you he's fly: he carries a sap about, which would sting a ninny like you to dead. 'What, a sap-engro! said the boy, with a singular whine, and, stooping down, he leered curiously in my face, kindly, however, and then patted me on the head. 'A sap-engro, he ejaculated; 'lor!
"What! the sap-engro? Lor! the sap-engro upon the hill!" "I remember that word," said I, "and I almost think I remember you. You can't be " "Jasper, your pal! Truth, and no lie, brother." "It is strange that you should have known me," said I. "I am certain, but for the word you used, I should never have recognised you."
For the rest, he wore drab breeches, with certain strings at the knee, a rather gay waistcoat, and tolerably white shirt; under his arm he bore a mighty whip of whalebone with a brass knob, and upon his head was a hat without either top or brim. "There, Jasper! shake hands, with the sap-engro." "Can he box, father?" said Jasper, surveying me rather contemptuously.
At length the man looked me in the face, and said, somewhat hesitatingly, 'So you are not one of them there after all? Myself. One of them there? I don't know what you mean. Man. Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin a devilkin! However, I see how it is: you are a sap-engro, a chap who catches snakes, and plays tricks with them!
"I should think not, he looks so puny and small." "Hold your peace, fool!" said the man; "he can do more than that I tell you he's fly; he carries a sap about, which would sting a ninny like you to dead." "What, a sap-engro!" said the boy, with a singular whine, and, stooping down, he leered curiously in my face, kindly, however, and then patted me on the head. "A sap-engro," he ejaculated; "lor!"
Then whining forth, "What a sap-engro, lor!" he gave me a parting leer, and hastened away. I remained standing in the lane gazing after the retreating company. "A strange set of people," said I at last, "I wonder who they can be."
For the rest, he wore drab breeches, with certain strings at the knee, a rather gay waistcoat, and tolerably white shirt; under his arm he bore a mighty whip of whalebone with a brass knob, and upon his head was a hat without either top or brim. 'There, Jasper! shake hands with the sap-engro. 'Can he box, father? said Jasper, surveying me rather contemptuously.
'That will do, said the man; 'that's the kind of prayers for me and my family, aren't they, wifelkin? I never heard more delicate prayers in all my life! Why, they beat the rubricals hollow! and here comes my son Jasper. I say, Jasper, here's a young sap-engro that can read, and is more fly than yourself. Shake hands with him; I wish ye to be two brothers.
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