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"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night." "Nay, I had other things upon my mind," the squire answered. "And so has every man," cried Hawtayne in an injured voice. "Let the shipman see to it.
It is possible that in snaring the owl we have caught the falcon. Yet we had certain token that he would come this way, and on such another horse. 'Call up Long John, suggested the Dutchman. 'I vould not give a plug of Trinidado for the Schelm's word. Long John was with Cooper Dick when he was taken. 'Aye, growled the mate Silas. 'He got a wipe over the arm from the gauger's whinyard.
"Ay, Will," answered Ganlesse carelessly; "I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a Hogan-Mogan a Netherlandish weasand, which expanded only on thy natural and mortal objects of aversion, Dutch cheese, rye-bread, pickled herring, onion, and Geneva."
"Surely, man surely," replied the king "but a sight of your father, with his long whinyard, would have been a blithe matter a short while syne; and in future we will aid the ends of Providence in our favour, by keeping near us two stout beef-eaters of the guard. And so this Olifaunt is a Puritan? not the less like to be a Papist, for all that for extremities meet, as the scholiast proveth.
Hayes supporting himself chiefly in lending out money upon pledges, and sometimes working at his profession, and in husbandry, till it was computed he had picked up a pretty handsome sum of money. About ten months before the murder they removed a little lower to the house of Mr. Whinyard, where the murder was committed, taking lodgings up two pairs of stairs.
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