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"Corporal Van Spitter, over with him," cried Vanslyperken in a rage, when a sudden stir was heard amongst the men aft, and as the corporal raised up the light frame of the culprit, to carry it to the gunnel, to the astonishment of Vanslyperken, of the corporal, and of Smallbones, Snarleyyow appeared on the forecastle, and made a rush at Smallbones, as he lay in the corporal's arms, snapped at his leg, and then set up his usual deep baying, "bow, bow, bow!"
"Oh, they're wicked, cruel monsters! They hate him, and they only want to hang him because they hate him. It's it's nothing to do with the cattle stealing. Smallbones has always hated Jim, because because Jim's better educated and comes from good people. Jim a cattle-thief? Jim wouldn't steal a a blade of grass. He's too noble, and good, and and honest. Oh, I hate these people!
The poor lad dropped the cup, sprang up convulsively, staggered, and then fell. Once he rolled over, his leg quivered, and he then moved no more. The beldame watched him with the hammer in her hand, ready to repeat the blow if necessary; indeed, she would have repeated it had it not been that after he fell, in turning over Smallbones' head had rolled under the low bedstead where she slept.
"Gold! no, no I got nothing indeed I lost by it lost a pot full of black paint but never mind that. He's gone," replied Vanslyperken, recovering himself fast. "Who is gone?" "The lad, Smallbones." "Pish," replied the old woman, rocking her chair. "Ay, well, never mind it was for revenge, then that's sweet very sweet. Now, Cornelius, tell me all about it."
"I can't do it no how, I sees that," said Smallbones, "so I may just as well go down like a dipsey lead."
Neither Stephen nor Giles knew, but when they reached their own quarters they found that Smallbones had received an intimation that there might be jousts, and that the offices of the armourers would be required.
He had just laid it between his paws, and was about to commence, when Smallbones, having left the yard-door open in his hurry, the dog was perceived by a dog bigger than he, who happened to pass that way, and who pounced upon Snarleyyow, trampling him over and over, and walked off with the red-herring, which he had better have left alone, as he was found dead the next morning.
He vowed vengeance against everybody and everything, especially against Smallbones, whom he was determined he would sacrifice: murder now was no longer horrible to his ideas; on the contrary, there was a pleasure in meditating upon it, and the loss of the expected fortune of the fair Mrs Malcolm only made him more eager to obtain gold, and he contemplated treason as the means of so doing without any feelings of compunction.
Now his bonds were removed, and immediately he stepped forward to where Smallbones had just succeeded in throwing his rope into position overhead, and was testing it with his own weight. As the prisoner came up he turned, and a malicious sparkle shone in his eyes as he confronted the calm face. "It'll bear my weight?" Jim inquired, coldly. "It wouldn't be pleasant to go through it twice."
All these items put together, the reader may infer, that, although Smallbones might appear merely ragged in front, that in his rear he could not be considered as decent, especially as he was the only one of the masculine sex among a body of females.
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