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"God bless you, young man," said Slingsby, shaking me by the hand, "you are the best friend I've had for many a day: I have but one thing to tell you: 'Don't cross that fellow's path if you can help it; and stay should the pony refuse to go, just touch him so, and he'll fly like the wind."
LILLY'S Euphues. Among the worthies of the village that enjoy the peculiar confidence of Master Simon, is one who has struck my fancy so much that I have thought him worthy of a separate notice. It is Slingsby, the schoolmaster, a thin, elderly man, rather threadbare and slovenly, somewhat indolent in manner, and with an easy, good-humoured look, not often met with in his craft.
Why, certainly they're taxable. They come in under the head of 'poll-tax. Three dollars apiece. I'll go right down there. Glad you mentioned it." Then I paid him, and he left with Butterwick's twins on his memorandum-book. A day or two afterward Mr. Slingsby called to see me, and he said, "I've got a case that bothers me like thunder. You know Hough the tobacconist?
Sir R. Slingsby and I went to Sir R. Ford's to see his house, and we find it will be very convenient for us to have it added to the office if he can be got to part with it. Then we sat down and did business in the office.
He who has sallied forth into the world, like poor Slingsby, full of sunny anticipations, finds too soon how different the distant scene becomes when visited.
'Why, as I am alive, this is the horse of that mumping villain Slingsby. 'It's his no longer; I bought it and paid for it. 'It's mine now, said the fellow; 'I swore I would seize it the next time I found it on my beat; ay, and beat the master too. 'I am not Slingsby. 'All's one for that. 'You don't say you will beat me? 'Afraid was the word. 'I'm sick and feeble. 'Hold up your fists.
Batten goes to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to Deptford and Woolwich. Portsmouth being a garrison, needs none. 12th. We fell to choosing four captains to command the guards, and choosing the place where to keep them, and other things in order thereunto. Never till now did I see the great authority of my place, all the captains of the fleete coming cap in hand to us. 13th.
Dined together with a good pig, and then out by coach to White Hall, to the Committee for Fishing; but nothing done, it being a great day to-day there upon drawing at the Lottery of Sir Arthur Slingsby.
Another monument shows Sir William Slingsby, who accidentally discovered the first spring at Harrogate.
"Yonder is something quite as good, if not better," said Slingsby. He pointed, as he spoke, to a part of the crevasse higher up on the glacier, where a projecting cave of snow overhung the abyss. From the under-surface of this a number of gigantic icicles hung, the lower points of the longer ones almost lost in the blue depths.
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