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Parker had forgotten his figures. "Gid came round the corner of the house, seeing the team drive up, and what do you suppose he said when he saw his brother back from the grave, as you might say? He looked him over, not offering to shake his hand, and then he says, 'Well, living skelington, it's goin' to cost something to plump you out again, ain't it?
Look at 'em! look at these bents! Every one a grave, with a skelington in it. The wear and tear from the edge will reach each one in turn, and then the last of the ungodly will have ceased from the earth." "And what became of your grandfather?" "My grandfather? There were something happened made him renounce the devil. He died one of the elect.
"He's a livin' skelington," old Arker whispered, as I plodded along at his side. "Poor devil!" "Poor devil!" said I. For looking at the almost lifeless man I thought of my own good fortune. This morning I had envied him. Now he had nothing but his wealth, and his hold on that was weakening fast. I had everything life and health, home and friends I had Mary.
James. I will. If I cotch you nearer than Mile End, I'll give you in charge at oncet. He's a humbug, daddy! but he'll serve you right. He'll melt you down for taller. He ain't no 'tective. I know him. Tho. Goo away. Bill. Good-bye, daddy! He don't know your Mattie. Good-bye, skelington! Exit. Tho. Eh! sech a boy! James. Let me see. You want a girl of the name of Mattie? Tho. Aw do, sir. James.
"Gor-sake you don't want to murder me!" gasped Malachi. "Not if I can get your skull any other way," said Bricky. "Oh!" gasped Malachi and then, with a vague idea that it was best to humour a lunatic, he continued, in a tone meant to be off-hand and careless "Now, look here, if yer only waits till I die you can have my whole skelington and welcome."
"By God, he shall come back what's left of him," swore Will. "If it takes me ten year, I'll go on till I find the skelington of your late husband or enough to prove he's a dead 'un. He shall be found, if only to show you what my love's worth, Jenny." "Looking for the little man's bones in Dart would be like seeking a dead mouse in a haystack," she said.
"No." replied the Living Skeleton. "I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me that's in our contrac'. If I eat more an put on flesh out I go. There's a clause in ther contrac' what sez I'm li'ble t' be fired if goes above seven stone seven. The previous livin' skelington got the run at Barnip fer breakin' out. He was the only original. I'm just a sort iv understudy."
The old creature came to a stop, his eyes glinting with a febrile excitement. "And so," I said, "Exciseman Jones was true to his word?" The tension of memory was giving the spring slowly uncoiling itself. "Ay," he said doubtfully. "The cliff had flaked away by degrees to his very grave. They found his skelington stickin' out of the chalk."
"I read once about a skelington at a feast that rattled his dry bones every time folks there started in to enjoy themselves," said the Cap'n, after he watched the scowling Colonel out of sight.
We might contrive something too, some means of escape. Yes, we must get to them, my lads." "Then you'll have to starve down, Barney, till you're as thin as a skelington," said Bob, "and then have another try." "All right, messmate, I'm willin'," said Barney, with a sigh. "I don't like going without my wittles, but what we gets here arn't much to lose.
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