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Updated: August 22, 2024
"And now, Mister, I want to thank you for your timely help. You probably saved my life, for you can't tell what a half-wit will do, when in a tantrum and armed with a knife. All my life I've had the enmity of half-wits. The big ones tease 'em and they take it out on the little fellow. "Well, that's that, as dear Marie Dressler says. I certainly am indebted to you, Mister. What's your name, Mister?
The very bridle had been taken from his head, and yet the stranger stood undaunted beside him, and the stallion did not seem to be angered by that nearness. The next thing Dunbar heard was the voice of Bridewell saying, "Nerviest thing I ever seen. I been putting this Bull Hunter down for a half-wit, pretty near. All his strength in his back and none in his head. But I changed my mind today.
In an adjoining town to Cleveland there was a snake charmer who called himself Artemus Ward, an ignorant witling or half-wit, the laughing stock of the countryside. Browne's first communication over the signature of Artemus Ward purported to emanate from this person, and it succeeded so well that he kept it up. He widened the conception as he progressed.
It's Hornby market day. I reckon yo're no better nor a half-wit yoursel'. He cocked his eye at me as if he were gauging my intellect. 'And have you been sitting here all day to keep the lane quiet? 'Ay. I've nought else to do. Th' minister has turned me adrift. Have yo' heard how th' lass is faring to-night? 'They hope she'll waken better for this long sleep.
But that correction which is unseasonably given, is more likely either to harden or make an hypocrite, than to reclaim. I am pleased, however, as well as you, with his making light of your brother's wise project. Poor creature! and must Master Jemmy Harlowe, with his half-wit, pretend to plot, and contrive mischief, yet rail at Lovelace for the same things?
'He'll do, said Schenk, and the next minute he was readjusting his crews and giving the strayed revellers the rough side of his tongue. As it chanced, I couldn't keep Peter with me, but had to send him to one of the barges, and I had time for no more than five words with him, when I told him to hold his tongue and live up to his reputation as a half-wit.
He was my own child, sir, by the young Laird's own father. That was before he was married upon the wife he took later " Here Mr. Saul nudged me, and whispered: "The old Laird had her married to that daunderin' old half-wit Duncan, to cover things up. This part of the tale is true enough, to my knowledge."
"I've heard from her," he half whispered. "Heard from her?" gasped Truedale, and even then Greyson seemed unaware of the attitude of the stranger. "How did you hear from her?" "She wrote and sent the letter long of of Bill Trim, a half-wit but trusty. Nella-Rose went with Lawson she 'lowed she had to. He came on her in the woods and held her to her word.
Intelligence began to come into the eyes of the man who all his life had whittled meaningless wooden chains, baskets formed out of peach stones, and ships intended to float in bottles. Love and understanding began a little to do for him what words could not have done. One day when a part Hugh had fashioned would not work the half-wit himself made the model of a part that worked perfectly.
Allie Mulberry the half-wit was one of the highlights of life in the town. He lived with his mother in a tumble-down house at the edge of town on Medina Road. Beside being a half-wit he had something the matter with his legs. They were trembling and weak and he could only move them with great difficulty.
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