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"Dickery, dickery, dock!" chanted Schehati solemnly, as he hauled again; "Moses ran up the clock. The clock struck 'one' " THE CLOCK STRUCK "ONE"? It was nearly three years since that night at Shenstone when the clock had struck "one," and Jane had arrived at her decision, the decision which precipitated her Jack from his Pisgah of future promise. And yet no. He had not fallen before the blow.
Dickery to a business meeting of the book-club, but they would be back before Langbourne could get away; she made him promise to wait for them. He did not know if Barbara looked any protest, at least she spoke none, and Juliet went out with Dickery. She turned at the door to bid Barbara say, if any one called, that she was at the book-club meeting.
We found him in the gray of dawn crouched doubled in the bow and frozen stiff. The boy, Lish Dickery, was the second to go. The other boy, Benny Hardwater, lasted ten or a dozen days. So bitter was it in the boat that our water and beer froze solid, and it was a difficult task justly to apportion the pieces I broke off with Northrup's claspknife.
The longboat was deep and heavy in the water, for it was burdened by the entire ship's company of twenty-one. Two of these were boys. Benny Hardwater was a bare thirteen, and Lish Dickery, whose family was near neighbour to mine in Elkton, was just turned sixteen. Our provisions consisted of three hundred-weight of beef and two hundred-weight of pork.
All I could hear of the song, for the other children were going on with their chatter, was The clock struck one, And the mouse came down. Dickery, dickery, dock! Then there came a blast of wind, and the rain followed in straight-pouring lines, as if out of a watering-pot. Diamond jumped up with his little Dulcimer in his arms, and Nanny caught up the little boy, and they ran for the cottage.
"You have walked alone, and you have called your father's name, and you're a wonderful child by this time." "This is the three-year-old, white aprons and curls, please observe. Now, you recite 'Dickery, dickery dock' and 'I want to be an angel, and you have cut all your wisdom teeth." "O, Mr. Mann, I haven't cut them yet. Babies don't have them." "Don't they?
The sun struck into her face as she looked up at him, and made her frown with a knot between her brows that pulled her eyes still closer together, and she asked, with no direct reference to his shirt-sleeves, "A'n't you forcing the season?" "Don't want to let the summer get the start of you," the young man generalized, and Miss Bingham said, "Mr. Langbourne, Mr. Dickery."
Dickery he had seen at the saw mills he turned and hurried back to his hotel, where he wrote a short letter saying that he had decided to take the express for New York that night.
"I don't know," he began, "whether I shall have the time " "Why, you're not going away to-day!" "I expected I But if you don't think I shall be intruding " "Why, I should be delighted to have you. Mr. Dickery's going, and Jenny Dickery, and Barbara. I don't believe it will rain." "Then, if I may," said Langbourne. "Why, certainly, Mr. Langbourne!" she cried, and he started away.
More than anything else, I think it was this that caused the death of Lish Dickery. He was out of his head and raving for twenty-four hours before he died. He died babbling for water, and yet he did not die for need of water. I resisted as much as possible the temptation to suck ice, contenting myself with a shred of tobacco in my cheek, and made out with fair comfort.
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