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William Tucket, the mayor of Bridgewater, where they resided, and to others of that town, the propriety of petitioning parliament for the abolition of the Slave-trade. This petition was agreed upon, and, when drawn up, was as follows: "The humble petition of the inhabitants of Bridgewater showeth,
"Here's the ladder," said Tucket; "now be careful." "'M I goung upthlarer, or am I goung downth larer?" Tucket proceeded to show him that the ladder was to be ascended; and, directing him how to hold on, and how to place his feet, boosted him gently, while a comrade above drew him also gently, until he was got safely out. "I did that perrywell!" said Frank. "Now lemme hell Sef!" I'll hellup ye!"
He pushed him back, shouting shrilly, at the same time, in the words of his favorite poet, "'Now, if thou strik'st him but one blow, I'll hurl thee from the brink as far as ever peasant pitched a bar!" This strange form of salutation astonished the rebel even more than the rough treatment he received at the hands of the vigorous and poetical Tucket. He saw that it was no time to stay and parley.
JEREMIAH. Thou hast become the king of sorrows, and never hast thou been more regal.... Anointed by suffering, lead us forth! Thou, who now seest God only, who no longer seest the world, guide thy people! The people bow before the stricken king. Day dawns. A tucket sounds. Jeremiah, from the perron of the temple, summons Israel to set out.
Men we can slay, but the God who lives in them we cannot slay. A nation can be controlled by force; its spirit, never. For the third time the tucket sounds. The sun, breaking forth, shines on the procession of God's people, beginning their march athwart the ages. Thus does a great artist exemplify the supreme liberty of the spirit.
"What makes you dizzy?" "Boys gimme some drink, I donowat." "The boys gave you some drink? You don't know what? Tucket," said Captain Edney, "what's all this? Who has been getting that boy drunk?" Seth perceived that any attempt to disguise the truth would be futile, except so far as it might be possible by ingenious subtleties to shield his companions.
"I never would have enlisted if I was such a coward as Jack," said Harris, contemptuously. "I ain't a coward," retorted Jack. "I enlisted to fight, not to go to sea and be drowned." "Drownded ded ded dead!" said Tucket. "O, yes," said Harris, "you are mighty fierce for getting ashore and fighting. But when you were on land you were just as glad to get to sea. Now I hope you'll get enough of it.
"No, sir, I do not know it ," Frank reflecting as he spoke, that a man cannot really know any thing of which he has not been an eye-witness, and comforting his conscience with the fact that he had not seen the turkeys stolen. "Now," Captain Edney did not betray by look or word whether he believed or doubted the boy's assertion, "tell me who was with you in the woods." "Seth Tucket, sir."
He swung himself, grunting a little, into the high saddle and laughed at her with the air of a man very master of himself. The tucket thrilled again.
Then the turkey-stealers had their adventure to relate, and Frank had his amusing story to tell, and Tucket could brag how near he had come to being shot for one of Buckley's gobblers, and all were merry but Jack, who had brought from the field nothing but a counterfeit lameness and dishonor, and who accordingly lagged behind his comrades, sulky and dumb.
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