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If I had only met you sooner, then " "As for that," said the beggarman, "I have no penny at all, that I haven't, and a bigger body and less clothes, so it is worse for me than for you." "Yes," said Little Freddy, "he must have the penny then there was no help for it; for so each beggarman would have one penny, and he would have nothing."
Cael began to race then, and he was glad of the start, for his antagonist made so little account of him that he did not know what to expect when the Carl would begin to run. "Yet," said Cael to himself, "with an hour's start the beggarman will have to move his bones if he wants to catch on me," and he settled down to a good, pelting race. At the end of an hour the Carl awoke.
"Sore thou art; and sorer thou'lt be," said O'Donnell. "Well, O'Donnell," said the lank grey beggarman, "strange are the tricks I've shown thee, but I'll show thee a stranger one yet for the same money." "Thou hast my word for it," said O'Donnell.
The pilgrim, who proved to be a gentleman of Limoges, answered in the patois of his countryside, that he had no use for a scurvy beggarman and could very well find his own way to The Annunciation for to receive pardon for his faults. And therewith he set his face resolutely to the hill.
And when he came there, he saw a great cloud that shot out of the sky, descending on the hill, and when it came down on the hill and melted away, there it left the Beggarman of the King of Sweden standing, and between his legs the Amadan saw the whole world and nothing over his head. And with a roar and a run the beggarman made for the Amadan, and the roar of him rattled the stars in the sky.
The people all knew Barnaby, and the children of the place came flocking round him as she remembered to have done with their fathers and mothers round some silly beggarman, when a child herself. None of them knew her; they passed each well-remembered house, and yard, and homestead; and striking into the fields, were soon alone again. The Warren was the end of their journey.
"That has he so!" cried Alan, "if we could but win to them! friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman." "And why that?" says the lass. "My dear," said Alan, "I cannae very safely say; but I'll tell ye what I'll do instead," says he, "I'll whistle ye a bit tune."
When we were alone, my wife and I used to speculate at times on his probable profession. Was he a merchant? an aged mariner? a tinker, tailor, beggarman, thief? We could never decide, and he never disclosed. Then the awakening came. I sat one day in the chair beside his, wondering as usual.
"I give it up," the Carl mumbled. "It's yourself, beggarman," jeered Cael. "I am myself," the Carl gurgled through a mouthful of blackberries, "and as I am myself, how can it be myself? That is a silly riddle," he burbled. "Look at your coat, tub of grease?" The Carl did so. "My faith," said he, "where are the two tails of my coat?"
As I reached them I heard a shrill cry, "Remember the Dark Man!" Then I saw the blind beggarman sitting huddled in a ragged great-coat so much too big for him that till he stood up I did not see how tiny he was. He had a doleful peaked face, set in a shock of grey hair. By him sat a little brown dog the queerest of mongrels with a tin can tied round his neck.
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