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Then Robin Hood laughed aloud and quickly took the warrant from out the Tinker's pouch with his deft fingers. "Sly art thou, Tinker," quoth he, "but not yet, I bow, art thou as sly as that same sly thief Robin Hood." Then he called the host to him and said, "Here, good man, are ten broad shillings for the entertainment thou hast given us this day.
"There's a Tinker's boy in the town," said the Innkeeper, darkly, "and he's always looking out for Hedgehogs I shouldn't be surprised if he heard where the family live." "Good-night!" said the Mole-mother, nervously, and hurried on with her children. "Some mischief will be done if we don't watch," she said to Emmie, who was a mole of unusual intelligence.
What would he see when he held the lamp over the edge of the Tinker's Pot into the horror of that empty space beyond where the passage broadened into blankness and the rock shelved sharply down? A dead boy? Or one so far gone from hanging that he could not be rescued? At the first sight of those wedged feet he had felt inclined to laugh.
We heard that our particular friends in town had got wind of the fact that we were going to put in a charge to-night, so Jim is doing guard duty outside, leaving Dick Norton and I to do the tinker's work. We expected to have gotten our shells all made in town; but they are looking out so sharp for us just now that it was entirely too much of a risk to bring them out here."
"I have heard that Miss Virginia Harlan is very clever," she said, opening and shutting her eyes in rapid succession, which I soon found was usual with her when she wished to be gracious, and which had much the effect of heat lightning on the beholder. "Weren't you at Tinker's Reach last summer?" she continued. "She was," answered Aunt Agnes in a stern tone.
Petulengro's kind advice, become the possessor of a fine horse, I gave my pony and tinker's outfit to the gipsies, and set out on the road, whereupon I was to meet with strange adventures.
An idea had popped into my head, one so bold that it might have been borrowed from Bothwell's lawless brain. "I say. Let's play this out with Captain Boris his own way. Let's just remind him we're on earth too." "Meaning " My eyes danced. "I'm as good a burglar as he is, and so are you." Blythe waited. "He doesn't give a tinker's dam for the law," I continued. "Good enough!
And, oh, Squire, do you remember his poor mother's shriek of despair when he was sentenced to transportation for life I hear it now! And what, Leonard what do you think had misled him? At the bottom of all the mischief was a tinker's bag. You cannot forget Sprott?" LEONARD. "Tinker's bag! Sprott!"
And every man and boy I have about the place is desired to leave me at the command of some d d O'Toole, whose father kept a tinker's shop somewhere in County Mayo, and whose mother took in washing."
Never mind, I'll be up early, and run over and make sure that it is Tinker's Hapford, before he gets out here, and have a pleasant surprise for him. Would it not be a justifiable coup de theatre to fetch his daughter here, and let her answer his ring at the door when he comes in the morning?" This plan was discouraged. "No, no; let them meet in their own way.
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