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Updated: June 29, 2025
This is the best news I ever had since I was born; for that hag of a mulatto was no less a person than my wife. He sat down upon a tar-barrel, as if unmanned by joy. 'Dear me, said he, 'I declare this tempts me to believe in Providence. And what, he added, 'can I do for you? 'Sir George, said I, 'I am already rich: all that I ask is your protection.
Our men, who had brought off the last of her crew, reported that, as they left her, flames were just beginning to burst from the fore-hatchway; and it was therefore certain that the rescue had not taken place an hour too soon. Whilst we were at dinner, Powell called us up on deck to look at her again, when we found that she was blazing like a tar-barrel.
'I will delate you for a warlock to the Privy Council! said Sir John. 'I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch! 'I intend to delate mysell to the Presbytery, said Steenie, 'and tell them all I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
"Aweel, aweel," said Hobbie, mounting his horse, "it serves naething to strive wi' cripples, they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell ye ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes."
"That is as certain as the return of the sun after night. But let us now talk of our project, Jack, and of the means of getting among these self-deluded men deluded by their own covetousness without being discovered; for I am determined to see them, and to judge of their motives and conduct for myself." "Take care of the tar-barrel, and of the pillow-case of feathers, Roger!"
'And at any rate, quoth Philip, 'we'll have the best bonfire that ever was seen in the country! Lucy, you'll coax my father to give us a tar-barrel! The tar-barrel presided over a monstrous pile of fagots, and the fisher-boys were promised a tester to whoever should first bring word to Master Philip that the young lord and lady were in the creek.
'That's my name, John Barter; and these are my offices. The outer oak, cracked and blistered to the likeness of an ancient tar-barrel, bore an inscription, dim with long years 'Fellowship, Freemantle, and Barter' and the names were repeated on the doorpost at the entrance. 'I have no card, said Philip, accepting the stranger's. 'My name is Bommaney Philip Bom-maney; Mr.
So just as the lad had done throwing the ox hides, with the spikes, over Dapplegrim, and had cast down the tar-barrel on the plain, and had got well up into the spruce-fir, up galloped a horse, with fire flashing out of his nostrils, and the flame caught the tar-barrel at once. Then Dapplegrim and the strange horse began to fight till the stones flew heaven high.
Charles Glenn, a fussy old gentleman, member of our church, was an important witness for the prosecution, and in the long, rhyming account published by the defendant, he was thus remembered: "Then in came Glenn, that man of peace, And swore to facts as sleek as grease; By all his Uncle Aleck's geese, McFarland burnt the tar-barrel."
They think they will now get rid of the English, and have things all their own way. That's their general idea. All their rejoicing passed off without a word of dissent from any Unionist. But if we rejoiced ! Suppose the bill were thrown out, and we lit a tar-barrel. We'd be stoned, and, if possible, swept off the very face of the earth. On St.
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