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Updated: June 8, 2025
He was thirsty-looking and eager as he poked at the box and tried to peer into it. "A demijohn!" he muttered, his mouth watering. "Two gallons probably prime old stuff. Eighty-five cents." "Eighty-five eighty-five!" repeated Bart. "Ninety," said the farmer. "Dollar!" mumbled the thirsty-looking man. "Do I hear any more?" challenged Bart, gavel suspended, "once, twice, and sold to cash."
Oxen, tethered underneath the thatched eaves or by the thirsty-looking trees, lay chewing the cud, almost too lazy to flick the flies away. Even the village goats seemed overcome with lassitude. Here and there a pariah dog sneaked in and out among the shadows or lay and licked his sores beside an offal-heap; but there seemed to be no energy in anything.
There was a broad, low entry running through the middle, and on either side two rather spacious square rooms. One of those in front had a well-sanded, well-worn pine floor, with a very thirsty-looking counter across one corner, supporting a sort of palisade that appeared to fortify nothing at all, a place, however, which had evidently been moist enough in the olden times.
The country is entirely hedge-less, but as you look down upon the rather thirsty-looking valley below the road, the scenery savours much of Kent; the chalky fields, wooded uplands and big, picturesque farms suggesting some of the agricultural districts of the English county. When we join the broad and straight national road running towards Gisors we have reached the tableland just mentioned.
"Ha! ha!" laughed Clayley; "let us come, boys," he added, turning to a very thirsty-looking group, "let's all take a `smile'. Here, Captain Haller! allow me to introduce you;" and the next moment I was introduced to a crowd of very seedy-looking gentlemen, and the moment after we were clinking glasses, and chatting as familiarly as if we had been friends of forty years' standing.
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