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"I don't think so," said Janet. "We liked to take care of it, of course." The gipsy man asked a number of questions about the Slowcoach, and then suggested that he should show them a good place to camp, and make their fire for them, and he added: "I'll tell you what you all come and have supper with us.
And then they had tea at a nice inn at Uffington, in a parlour full of photograph frames, and returned to the station. As the train left, they leaned back in their seats, a great deal more tired than they had ever been in the Slowcoach. "What a hateful rate this train goes at!" said Robert. "I prefer two miles an hour." "Oh, yes," they said.
So he lay, rolling and restless, hearing every clock strike; now trying to divert his thoughts, by making a rough calculation what all his gibbeys put together were worth; now considering whether he had forgotten to go for any he had marked in the course of his peregrinations; now wishing he had laid one about old Leather, when he fell on his knees after calling him the 'Woolpack'; then wondering whether Leather would have had him before the County Court for damages, or taken him before Justice Slowcoach for the assault.
"It's well you didn't kill your brother, Miss Terry," said Nurse Nancy severely, "and your gran'ma is anxious to know whereabouts on the road you murdhered Misther Lally." Terry stared at her with her big blue eyes, and then burst out laughing. "Oh, you dear, funny old Nurse!" she said; "I'm sure Granny never thought of such a thing. Why, here is Lally, dear old slowcoach!
Then Kink hacked again, and drew the carriage away from the pony that was lying on the ground; and then he and the man lifted the bundle once more and came with it very carefully to the Slowcoach, Kink calling out to Gregory to open the door and put some pillows on the floor.
Let the Slowcoach provide the ground-plan, so to speak, and then improve on it by the light of your experience. You must by this time each know of certain little defects in the Slowcoach that could easily be done away with." "Of course," said Robert. "Blisters." "Don't rot," said Gregory. "I know of something, Mr. Scott. The roof. It ought to have a felt covering, so as to soften the rain."
"It is quite flat at the top," he said, "and there is a tower at the very edge, and a perfect place for a picnic." Here we will leave them, climbing pantingly up, and follow the Slowcoach, as Moses drew it steadily along the lanes at the base of the hill, between the high hedges. "It's not true, is it, that when all the cows in a field stand up it's going to rain?"
"Very unfortunate," he muttered, "and very unsystematic. However, we must hope for the best;" and so saying he led the way toward the yard, with his meek little sons, who had said not a word, but appeared to wish themselves well out of the affair, behind him. Kink had already unharnessed Moses, and the Slowcoach stood at rest. Mr.
He was noted for being worse at getting servants than other men, and scarcely paid them any wages. He was not a man easy to deal with. There was a kinsman of his, also named Thorbjorn, called Slowcoach. He was a mariner, and the two namesakes were in partnership together. He was always at Thoroddsstad and people did not think he made Thorbjorn any better.
"Our gardener," said Hester, "but he drives the caravan for us;" and gradually she told the whole Slowcoach story. By this time they were at Ashton, and, after giving instructions about looking after the ponies, sending for a veterinary surgeon and so forth, Mrs. Mordan showed Kink the way to Aunt May's house, which they reached just before two.
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