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But there was another personage on the deck, a personage of no small importance, as he was all in all to Mr Vanslyperken, and Mr Vanslyperken was all in all to him; moreover, we may say, that he is the hero of the TAIL. This was one of the ugliest and most ill-conditioned curs which had ever been produced: ugly in colour; for he was of a dirty yellow, like the paint served out to decorate our men-of-war by his Majesty's dock-yards: ugly in face; for he had one wall-eye, and was so far under-jawed as to prove that a bull-dog had had something to do with his creation: ugly in shape; for although larger than a pointer, and strongly built, he was coarse and shambling in his make, with his forelegs bowed out.
"I bought a boat from Pierre Toma." "I know her," he said with a chuckle; "cranky as a bath-tub! You couldn't go up the lake in her!" "Not while it blows like this," said Garth. "Then I hope it hits it up for a week!" said Charley, apparently addressing the hem of Natalie's skirt. "I was told one Wall-eye Macgregor had a strong boat," Garth said. "Nothing doing!" returned the boy.
Later, mounted on a forest pony an ill-favoured animal with a wall-eye, pink muzzle, bristly upper and hanging lower lip, more accustomed to carry a keg of smuggled spirits strapped beneath its belly than a cosmopolitan savant and social reformer on its back he rode the three miles to Marychurch, proposing there to take the coach to Southampton and, after a measure of rest and refitting, a post-chaise to Canton Magna, his elder brother's fine place lying in a fold of the chalk hills which face the Sussex border.
If the agricultural person with the hair will kindly shut his head, the sea-green barnacle with the wall-eye may per-haps condescend to enlighten us." "Naow you've made a show o' me, Salters," said Disko, angrily. He could not stand up to that particular sort of talk, and snapped out the latitude and longitude without more lectures.
He was eight years of age before he realized that the names his mother called him by, were of contempt and not of endearment "Wall-Eye" and "Mud-Sucker" literally the vocabulary of a fishwife. Then he knew for the first time that his eyes were not like those of other children that one eye had a bluish cast in it and turned inward.
Applehead's eyes turned anxiously to Rosemary, toward whom he was beginning to show a timidly worshipful attitude. "You bet I can. Do you remember the time we hitched that big bronk up with old Wall-eye, to haul water?
"But these are broncos." "Yes; I believe that is what you call them. Monsieur Bill of Buffalo, New York, sent them as a present to Madame Rosalie when he was in Paris." There they were two ewe-necked cayuses one a pinto with a wall-eye; the other a dun with a black line down the back. I challenged Antoine to saddle them and we would ride.
They counted on the boat to carry them as far as the lake; there, Pierre Toma had assured them, they might very likely overtake the Bishop, if he were delayed by contrary winds, or christenings. In any case Wall-eye Macgregor, said Pierre, had a strong boat at the lake that could take them the eighty miles across.
He was a nasty customer to fight; he could use his hands, and was cool as a cucumber as soon as he took his coat off: besides, he had one squirmy little business eye, and a big wall-eye, an', even if you knowed him well, you couldn't help watchin' the stony eye it was no good watchin' his eyes, you had to watch his hands, and he might have managed me if the boss hadn't stopped the fight.
The second team was led by a tall, gaunt-jawed, one-eyed lumberman named Jim Johnson, but invariably known as "Walley." From the fact that his blind eye was of a peculiar blankness, like whitish porcelain, he had been nicknamed "Wall-Eye"; but, owing to his general popularity, combined with the emphatic views he held on that particular subject, the name had been mitigated to Walley.
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