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Updated: May 17, 2025
And then they got to talking one against the other the same as they belong, and they'd soon got back to the same old talk whether Jackie Fisher was the finest admiral who ever lived or no use at all. 'What's the good in your talking to me? old man Timbury was saying.
Why, when it gets known in the village that Sam Dale's going to preach on drink there isn't a seat down Chapel. Well, I tell 'ee he frightened me last time I sat under him. That's why old man Timbury has it in for me whenever he gets the chance." Mark looked puzzled. "Old man Timbury keeps the Hanover Inn. And he reckons my pa's preaching spoils his trade for a week.
"I'll learn you to scat up my tombs," said the old man shaking them violently. "'Tisn't the first time I've spoken to you, Cass Dale, and who's this? Who's this boy?" "Oh, my gosh, look behind 'ee, Mr. Timbury. The bullocks is coming into the churchyard." Mr.
Timbury loosed his hold on the two boys as he turned, and Cass Dale catching hold of Mark's hand shouted: "Come on, run, or he'll have us again." They were too quick for the old man's wooden leg, and scrambling over the wall by the south porch of the church they were soon out of danger on the beach below. "My gosh, I never heard him coming.
If I hadn't have thought to sing out about the bullocks coming, he'd have laid that stick round us sure enough. He don't care where he hits anybody, old man Timbury don't. I belong to hear him tap-tapping along with his old wooden stump, but darn 'ee I never heard 'un coming this time." The old man was leaning over the churchyard wall, shaking his stick and abusing them with violent words.
That's why he's sexton to the church. 'Tis the only way he can get even with the chapel folk. He used to be in the Navy, and he lost his leg and got that hole in his head in a war with the Rooshians. You'll hear him talking big about the Rooshians sometimes. My father says anybody listening to old Steve Timbury would think he'd fought with the Devil, instead of a lot of poor leary Rooshians."
They reckoned she was all right to the lifeboat, and old man Timbury who do always go against anything Eddowes do say shouted that of course she was all right because he'd taken a look at her through his glass before it grew dark. Of course she was all right. 'She's on a lee shore, said Eddowes. 'It don't take a coastguard to tell that, said old man Timbury.
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