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Updated: August 27, 2024
The hurdle-fence, enclosing Panteley Eremyitch's yard, had long been dilapidated, and in many places was bent and lying on the ground.... Beside the stable, it had been completely levelled for a good yard's width. Perfishka pointed this spot out to Tchertop-hanov. 'Master! look here; this wasn't like this to-day.
But there's always that bright little bit of Bobby Burns's to be reckoned with. You know: 'The best laid schemes of mice and men, etcetera that bit. But the Yard's got them, and they'll never leave the country now. Take them, Mr. Narkom, they're yours!" "How did I guess it?" said Cleek, replying to the major's query, as they sat late that night discussing the affair.
"I believe it to be the name, or perhaps the sigil, of an extensive secret society with branches stretching out into every corner of the Orient." We were silent for awhile. Inspector Weymouth, who sat in a chair near the window, glanced appreciatively at the back of his subordinate, who still stood looking out. Detective-sergeant Fletcher was one of Scotland Yard's coming men.
At last, the beach contracted to hardly a yard's width, and the dense thicket almost dipped into the sea. In place of the smooth sand, too, we had sharp fragments of broken coral, which made travelling exceedingly unpleasant. "Lord! my foot!" roared the doctor, fetching it up for inspection, with a galvanic fling of the limb.
A moment of torture ensued for the small lady, during which she nearly twisted her thumb from its socket, then she managed to gasp: "Green pups!" Mr. Bob laughed. "Why, you little cannibal!" he said. "What on earth does she mean?" "Cream puffs," explained Mrs. Wiggs, airily. "She et 'em onct at Mrs. Reed's, the Bourbon Stock Yard's wife, an' she's been talkin' 'bout 'em ever sence."
The mate, on the forecastle, looks out for the head yards. ``Well the fore topsail yard! ``Top-gallant yard's well! ``Royal yard too much! Haul in to windward! So! well that! ``Well all! Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it if it blows very fresh.
In the next few days there were many signs that Melville intended to find and supply the desired capital for the promotion of the yard's business. Don and his father were much about the place, though they rarely came out to the "Pollard." Business friends of Mr. Melville's also appeared. Finally there came an important looking lawyer and an expert accountant.
I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe in those solitary walks that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me, but would hop about within a yard's distance, looking for worms and other food, with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them.
Eaton, the second mate of the ship, was the next witness called. He confirmed all that had been sworn by Mr. Dimmock, adding that the day they were taken the pirates asked if he would consent to sign their articles, which he refused. Whereupon they put a rope about his neck, and hoisted him up to the yard's arm, so that he totally lost his senses.
Brown was puzzling himself to conceive how a fox-chase could take place among hills, where it was barely possible for a pony, accustomed to the ground, to trot along, but where, quitting the track for half a yard's breadth, the rider might be either bogged or precipitated down the bank. This wonder was not diminished when he came to the place of action.
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