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"Scrag was beginning to get the cows together again; but by that time the people had made up their minds to stay where they were. They built themselves huts on platforms above the water and caught turtles in the bayous. "'Opata has called a Council, Taku told me, 'to say that I must make my Stick talk, or they will know me for a deceiver, a maker of short life for them.
"Well, it gets late," said the widow, "and if you like to take this scrag end home to your wife neighbour Hill, we can talk of the rest next Saturday. And what's your will, sir?" said the widow with a stern expression to a youth who now stopped at her stall. He was about sixteen, with a lithe figure, and a handsome, faded, impudent face.
"I don't want to hurt your feelings any more," said he gravely, "though sometimes I'd like to scrag you I suppose because you're so different from me. It was so when we were children together. Now I've grown very fond of Peggy. Put on the right track, she might turn into a very fine woman." "I don't think we need discuss Peggy, Oliver," said Marmaduke. "I do. She is sticking to you very loyally."
Great clouds of gulls flew inland, screaming down the wind, and across the salt flats they had their first sight of the low, hard land. "We lost them there, for we could not eat the salt grass, and Scrag had turned north by a mud slough where the waters were bitter, and red moss grew on the roots of the willows.
Skim it the moment the fresh piece of meat begins to boil, and about every quarter of an hour afterwards. It should boil slowly five hours. Add some chopped parsley. Cut the meat off the scrag into small pieces, and send it to table in the tureen with the soup. The other half of the mutton should be served on a separate dish, with whole turnips boiled and laid round it.
I don't blame him if he did scrag old Bickers very good job; and as it happens, it don't hurt our house very much now we're going to get all the sports; and I'm booked for the Swift Exhibition £20 a-year for three years. We mean to back him up, and that's one reason why we're going to give him the testimonial though none of the chaps except Dig knows about these things.
After delivering this comminatory address I felt greatly relieved, and went home in a cheerful frame of mind to supper, which consisted that evening of mutton scrag, boiled with pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and milky maize not at all a bad dish for a hungry man.
"I told you that my grandfather was a shorter," said the jockey, "by which is meant a gentleman who shortens or reduces the current coin of these realms, for which practice he was scragged, that is, hung by the scrag of the neck.
"`Halloo! cried a dozen men, jumpin' at me. `Wot's that for? `Scrag the hunter, cries one. `Howld yer long tongues, an' hear what he's got to say, shouts an Irishman. "`Keep your minds easy, says I, mountin' a stump, `an' seize that Injun, or I'll have to put a ball into him before he gits off' for, ye see, I obsarved the black villain took fright, and was sneakin' away through the crowd.
But that supper at the Throckmortons'! Uncle Billy was seated on the porch steps with a pan of drippings in his hand, wherein the cook had grudgingly put the scrag of a fried chicken and a hunk of cold corn bread. The cook was a new cook and not at all inclined to bother herself over an old darkey with his whiskers done up in plaits.
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