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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Yes, to make one's way across the open country, I grant you; but remember, lad, how long it would have taken to gain admission when we were there before had the garrison not been warned that we were in the vicinity. This time they will look upon us as enemies until we are near enough to make ourselves known, and such a force as is here would appear to them like an attackin' party."
It was as though the extravagance of this un-English violence had roused in him the full measure of a native moderation. The sight of the naked steel deeply disgusted him; he uttered a long sentence. What did Hughs call this disgracin' of the house at this time in the mornin'? Where was he brought up? Call 'imself a soldier, attackin' of old men and women in this way? He ought to be ashamed!
They actilly expect the sun to shine, and the rain to fall, through their little House of Assembly. 'What have you done for us? they keep axin' their members. 'Who did you spunk up to last Session? jist as if all legislation consisted in attackin' some half dozen puss proud folks at Halifax, who are jist as big noodles as they be themselves.
"Well, you saved them, and I'm right glad of it. We ain't got any use for Mary's little trotter, but your father's square about his. He keeps them herded up on his own range. We may not like it, but we ce'tainly aren't going to the length of attackin' his herd." Farnum's gaze took in her slender girlishness, and he voiced the question in his mind.
A score of questions were fired at the newcomer. "They're attackin' the stage at the foot of the pass!" explained the messenger. There were sighs of relief at this bit of news, for at first they had thought that the red warriors were about to enter the town. But six miles away! That was a different matter. "I'm Dave Robbins," the youth went on desperately. "I've got to go back there with help.
"That's so," said Sol, "an' they've been doin' so much attackin' themselves that they won't think about our takin' the job from 'em." They returned with their news, and at midnight the white army started forth on its great but hazardous attempt.
Over and over to himself he conned these words: "I interpylated in between them, and I says, 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself; call yourself an Englishman, I says, attackin' of old men and women with cold steel, I says!" And suddenly he saw that Hughs was in the dock. The dark man stood with his hands pressed to his sides, as though at attention on parade.
Seems to me that the diggers at Pine Tree Camp are a set of out-an'-out blackguards like most diggers except this poor thief of a fellow Brixton, so I vote for attackin' the camp, carryin' off all the gold we can lay hands on in the hurry-skurry, an' set this gentleman this thief Brixton free. He's a bold chap, I'm told by the redskin, an' will no doubt be glad to jine us.
'It was thee set 'm on a heerd thee a see'd thee a helping on 'em t' break in; they'd niver ha' thought on attackin' t' house, and settin' fire to yon things, if thou hadn't spoken on it. Simpson was now fairly crying. 'Ay, said he; 'it's a great thing for folk to have a chap for t' lead 'em wi' a head on his shouthers.
"Well, in due time I forget the exact date, now we arrived on the Coast, and there we stayed for a matter o' three months, huntin' blacks and Portingals; goin' into the rivers in the caravels, landin' parties, attackin' native villages, and makin' prisoners o' all the strongest and most likely-lookin' men and women with a good sprinklin' o' childer, too and cuttin' out the Portingal caravels wherever we found 'em.
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