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And I say again, if you'll put me up to a three-pound grayling I'll cut off your leg for nothing any time you want it done!" "Well, now," said Sim Gage, his forehead puckering up, "I don't want to put you under no obligations, Doc." "He won't, neither, Doc," interrupted Wid Gardner, while the surgical dressing was going forward.
"Now, what do you think of that for catching fish?" demanded the boy. Oje gave a satisfied grunt at this evident appreciation of his services, and motioned the lads to continue their sport. Next Thede caught a gray trout somewhat smaller than the fish landed by Sandy, and then another three-pound speckled trout was landed.
For a man to fight with his horse would be a disgrace; to abuse or over-ride him a shame; to lade him with a three-pound bit and a thirty-pound saddle a confession of inability to control or stay on. In every part of the world where the horse has been developed, it has been in exact ratio with the creed of the riding schools.
Even in his sleep, this gave him an air of wistfulness. Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.
The Wilmington, which had taken up a position further off shore, sent a three-pound shell into the midst of the cavalry, wounding several of them and putting them to flight. The Leyden then finished the work of landing the ammunition, and returned to Key West.
Crossing the Kattegat in a little smack that carried but two three-pound guns, he was chased and overtaken by a Swedish frigate of sixteen guns and a crew of sixty men. Tordenskjold had but twenty-one, and eight of them were servants and non-combatants. They were dreadfully frightened, and tradition has it that one of them wept when he saw the Swede coming on.
The expedition was placed under the command of Captain Loch, whom we all knew to be as good an officer as any in the service. We carried with us two three-pound field-guns, and on reaching Donabew landed, and began our march without encountering an enemy.
And then, the rats'll get in at the roof, and up through the floor, and eat 'em all up, and my work too the grand new three-pound coat that I've been stitching at this ten days, for the sum of one half-crown sterling and don't I wish I may see the money? Come on, quick; there are the rats, close behind!"
He began with misgivings at the three-pound carcass, and he ended with an entirely new feeling of stuffed satisfaction.
There were Rose Nobles of Edward IV.; Sovereigns and Angels of Henry VII. and VIII.; Sovereigns, Half-Sovereigns and gold Crowns of Edward VI.; Sovereigns, Rials, and Angels of Mary; Sovereigns, Double Crowns and Crowns of Elizabeth; Thirty-shilling pieces, Spur Rials, Angels, Unites and Laurels of James I.; Three-pound pieces, Broads, and Half Broads of Charles I.; some in greater quantity and some in less; all were represented.
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