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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Because the Gallopin Gent was comin down with despatches for Boney, and they were keepin the road for him. That's why," screamed the big man, bumping up and down in his excitement. "Only question was which way. Ye see it's most in general all ways at once with him. Up and down, day and night, all over Sussex, these weeks past. No stoppin him; no coppin him; no nothin him.
But they're after bigger game, I allow." "What's that?" "Despatch-running for Little Boney, sir." The boy waited. There was more to come, he felt; and he was right. In a minute Diamond's old ship-mate resumed his tale. "Last July, I was on furlough at Alfriston. One evening I went for a bit of a stroll on the hill. Up there, under the sky, top o Snap Hill, was a look-out chap with a telescope.
The deer'll be ez thick ez bees around that Salt Lick now." The Boy consented. Boney went with him for company. As a self-respecting coon dog he scorned to hunt any animal that couldn't fight with an even chance for his life. As for a deer he'd as lief chase a calf!
He got up and vigorously poked the fire. Lucas Errol endured the clatter for several seconds in silence: then, "Boney," he said, "since you are feeling energetic, you might lend me a hand." Nap laid down the poker instantly. "I am sorry, old fellow. I forgot. Let me ring for Hudson." "Can't you help me yourself?" Lucas asked.
My pardner-huntin' wuz ended, but wuz it to be death at the gole? That agonizin' thought made me by the side of myself, and entirely onbeknown to me I rushed forwards and cried to the lordly beast above, jest ready to spring: "Don't harm Josiah! Devour me instead!" I knowed I would make a better meal for it; Josiah is lean and boney.
Every man Jack of us was carted to hospital in 'Frisco. It was plain hell, sir, that's what it was, an' two hundred and thirty days of it." "Yet here you are," I laughed; "signed on another Horn voyage." And this morning Tom Spink confided the following tome: "If only we'd lost the carpenter, sir, instead of Boney." I did not catch his drift for the moment; then I remembered.
She thought of the many times she'd sat up in bed at home in a fright that the Frenchmen had landed and were marching up to burn Manaccan Vicarage: and how often she had warned her husband against abusing Boney from the pulpit 'twas dangerous, she always maintained, for a man living so nigh the seashore.
You see, it was very necessary that Wellington should spread out all his force, for Boney was behind the screen of his fortresses, and of course we had no means of saying on what side he might pop out, except that he was pretty sure to come the way that we least expected him.
He's audacious enough to come across, is little Boney, if he could dowse Lord Nelson's other eye; but there's no chance for him until then, and well he knows it. 'How can Lord Nelson know what he is doing? I asked. The man pointed out over my shoulder into the darkness, and far on the horizon I perceived three little twinkling lights. 'Watch dog, said he, in his husky voice. 'Andromeda.
The children had heard Sally tell the story of them fifty times but were quite content to hear it again how Sally had bought them of a hawker in the year 1802, for joy that peace was come at last, and how that wicked Boney had plunged all the world into war again.
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