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His eyes meet the crooked and quizzical orbs of the mascot. "You mourning-colored moke!" There is a huge threat in the deliverance. The hook-like finger tears the black tobacco out of the choking mouth. The great quid is thrown in the fire. The proposed motion is made, and the handkerchief is not burned. Down it goes in the hip pocket beside Corkey's revolver, out of harm's way.
"Nuthin'," said Chook, seizing the leg of a table; "but wait till I put the nosebag on the moke." "Whose cart is it?" inquired Pinkey. "Jack Ryan's," answered Chook; "'e's bin shickered since last We'n'sday, an' I'm takin' it round fer 'is missis an' the kids." Mrs Partridge received Chook very graciously when she learned that he was a friend of Pinkey's and had offered to help in passing.
I'm ridin' an old moke on errands for him whin his hired folks is busy. A man must live, and there's that purty lass with the Irish eyes! Man alive, but it goes to me heart to luk at her." "Well, I think I must have a 'luk' at her then," was Burlingame's half satirical remark. Not long after Patsy Kernaghan had left Burlingame's office, the Young Doctor came.
Do not accuse us of being more sordid than our neighbours. We do but as the world does; and a girl in our society accepts the best party which offers itself, just as Miss Chummey, when entreated by two young gentlemen of the order of costermongers, inclines to the one who rides from market on a moke, rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a handbasket."
They would make a most eternal disagreeable cargo shiftin' about amongst your ribs. May the devil grab me, ye moke, if I wouldn't rather swell up an' bust wid th' scurvy than swallow them fellows kickin'." "Bile 'em, white man," said the cook. "Bile 'em in er pint er water an' then fling 'em overboard. Who the debble would eat er roach?"
In the lower ground are found quantities of wild donkeys, which, the Bedouin complained, were in the habit of trampling upon and killing their goats. Whether these donkeys are naturally wild or descendants of escaped tamed ones I am unable to say. Some are dark and some are white, and their skins seemed to be more glossy than those of the domestic moke.
Now, then, moke, cock them old long ears of yours and go ahead." As he spoke Tom led one of his mules to the front, gave it a clap on the back, and it trotted forward and went off down the dark track Tom had declared for.
The soldiers were all out of their tents now, and the air rang with laughter mingled with shouts of "Go it, moke!" "Hold on, Sam!" "Stop that mule," Captain Manley shouted, "or the man will be killed." Several soldiers ran to catch at the bridle, but the mule swerved and dashed away out of camp along the road. "Look, look," Tom said, "there are the staff, and Lord Wellington among them.
"Grey mare belongs to you, boss don't she? an' the black moke with the Roman nose follerin'? I was thinkin' we might manage to knock up some sort o' swap. Now this mare's a Patriarch, she is; and you might n't think it. I won this here saddle with her at a bit of a meetin' las' week, an' rode her my own self an' that's oc'lar demonster.
"'Want to send some word home, old man? says I, to cheer him up; for don't you see, I allowed we was all in the drink just tumble to what an old tub she was 117 of us at the start, and we all croak but me and the moke the coon, I should say." The woman is afraid to interrupt. Suddenly the eye of Corkey moistens. He has escaped a great error. "I didn't hear his last words, nohow."
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