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Sampson wishes to speak to me alone. And now they are gone, what, in Heaven's name, Mr. Sampson, is the meaning of all this? 'It may be a message from Heaven, said the Dominie, 'but it came by Beelzebub's postmistress. It was that witch, Meg Merrilies, who should have been burned with a tar-barrel twenty years since for a harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy.
The fire roared like a lion for its prey, and voices answered it inside from the top of the mill, and the feet came thundering down, and I stood as near that awful fire as I could, with uplifted sword to slay and be slain. The bolt was drawn. A tar-barrel caught fire. The door was opened. What followed?
"There goes my old Adrian, as dutifully escorting that walking sack of bones, that tar-barrel ornament never mind, old lady, from this moment I shall love you for your brave deeds of this morning escorting his worthy aunt as dutifully as though he were a penniless nephew.... Gently over the gunnel, madam! That's done! So you are going to take my gig? Right, Adrian. Dear me, how she holds forth!
Sampson wishes to speak to me alone. And now they are gone, what, in heaven's name, Mr. Sampson, is the meaning of all this?" "It may be a message from Heaven," said the Dominie, "but it came by Beelzebub's postmistress. It was that witch, Meg Merrilies, who should have been burned with a tar-barrel twenty years since, for a harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy."
Master Kilroot was a noisy, bulky man, with a whiff of the tar-barrel ever about him and a heart as stout as a ship's biscuit. He feared God always, and drubbed his men whenever it was necessary; in his estimation the office of sea-captain was the most important under heaven, and Master John Freake the greatest man on earth.
But while she slept, the butcher took and dipped her into a tar-barrel, and then laid her down on a heap of feathers; and when she woke up, she was feathered all over, and began to wonder what had befallen her. 'Is it me, or is it not me? No, it can never be me; it must be some great strange bird. But what shall I do to find out whether it is me or not. Oh!
As the tackles were at hand, they at once hoisted the tar-barrel on deck; but by this time it was impossible to remain longer on board, and therefore, doing up the more valuable articles in two parcels, Tom having first descended, Desmond lowered them over the side to him.
'Yon's an inshot o' yours, Mac. I love ye like a brother. We'll bide whaur we are till daylight'; an' he kept her awa'. "Syne up went a rocket forward, an' twa on the bridge, an' a blue light aft. Syne a tar-barrel forward again. "'She's sinkin', said Bell. 'It's all gaun, an' I'll get no more than a pair o' night-glasses for pickin' up young Bannister the fool! " Fair an' soft again, I said.
It did not take the three long to reach the vicinity where the tar-barrels had been left. As they approached they saw a light flare up. "They are setting 'em on fire!" cried Andy. "Stop, Ritter! Stop, Coulter!" yelled Pepper. "Don't you light those barrels!" "Ha! ha!" came from the bully of the Hall. "What's an old tar-barrel, anyway? Guess we can fire them if we want to!"
"But let me warn you all about fires in those woods in the future. If a fire gained headway here we might burn everything down to the ground." So, from an official standpoint, the matter was dropped. Ritter beckoned to Coulter, and they hurried away, followed by Nick Paxton and one or two others. "Well, that ends the tar-barrel celebration," said Pepper, rather mournfully.
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