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Updated: May 21, 2025
He was the question, he the centre of the drama. There were a hundred different stories running around the town as to what exactly had happened to him during those Jubilee days. Was it true that he had taken Miss Milton by the scruff of her long neck and thrown her out of the house? Was it true that he had taken his coat off in the Cloisters and given Ronder two black eyes?
But as the man had had the wit to seize the dog by the scruff of the neck and to keep himself out of the reach of the luckless creature's vainly snapping jaws, these protests went for nothing. Within thirty feet of the boat, the dog braced himself for a new effort to tear free. The man, in anger, planted a vigorous kick against the collie's furry side.
I used to watch them during the night watch, as their fins, above water, skimmed along, leaving a trail of light behind them; and the second night I said to the sentry abaft, as I was looking at them smelling under the counter `Soldier, says I, `them sharks are mustering under the orders of Yellow Jack; and I no sooner mentioned Yellow Jack, than the sharks gave a frisky plunge, every one of them, as much as to say, `Yes, so we are, damn your eyes. The soldier was so frightened, that he would have fallen overboard, if I hadn't caught him by the scruff of the neck, for he was standing on the top of the taffrail.
He sniffed at Harz, showed the whites round his eyes, and uttered a sharp bark. A young voice called: "Scruff! Thou naughty dog!" Light footsteps were heard on the stairs; from the distance a thin, high voice called: "Greta! You mustn't go up there!" A little girl of twelve, with long fair hair under a wide-brimmed hat, slipped in. Her blue eyes opened wide, her face flushed up.
"Very well," he said, on hearing the tale; "to-morrow I march every man Jack of you up to the valley, if it's by the scruff of your necks, and in the presence of both of those ladies of both, mark you you shall kneel down and ask them to come to church. I don't care if I empty the building. That's where you sit, Jim Trestrail, churchwarden; and by the Lord Harry, they shall have your pew."
"It would give me great pleasure, Craig, to take you by the scruff of your neck and drop you overboard. But as you say, what's been done can't be remedied by bashing in a man's head. Well, here you are, since you ask.
"It was no more I," he said, "than if somebody had come and laid hold of me by the scruff of my neck," and he was forced away in terror upstairs to his bedroom, where he went on his knees in agony, and the Devil left him, and he became calm and pure. But no such efficient help was given him in the trial of his life.
"Disgraced, indade, I only wish I had him by the scruff of his neck, if he thinks anything can disgrace you, or make you less a lady. Them smells, and they are awful sometimes, when half the folks is sick, can't do it."
When he had come alongside I grasped the scruff of his neck, and after a considerable struggle, in which I several times came near to over-turning the canoe, I managed to drag him aboard, where he shook himself vigorously and squatted down before me. After emerging from the fiord, I paddled southward along the coast, where presently the lofty cliffs gave way to lower and more level country.
Yancy instantly surmised that the reference was to Slosson. "I reckon I'll feel obliged to just naturally skin him," he explained. "Sho', will he let you do that?" they demanded. "He won't be consulted none. And his hide will come off easy once I get hold of him by the scruff of the neck." Yancy's speech was gentle and his lips smiling, but he meant a fair share of what he said.
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