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A Bunch of Keys, Where They Were Found and What They Might Have Unlocked [stories] Ed. by T. Hood
Bunch
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-19.
ISBN 9781150327933
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " They can't ha' been long in the water, -- howa- ever you must be gettin' into bed, youngster; you'll always be in trouble, you will, you're so sharp; so trudge homeward !" When we had gained the lighthouse, Mr. Strongitharm ordered me into his own bed in the upper chamber, and gave me a glass of hot rum- and-water, with a large piece of salt butter, the salt sort of butter that could be churned from the milk of sea cows. I told him of the old man we had seen, and where we found him on the night that we were lost. " Ah !" said Mr. Strongitharm, " that was old Tilson. He's mad, he was drove so by race-horses and drink. He used to breed race-horses. When they used to win he used to drink to drown himself for joy, when they used to lose he used to drink to drown himself for aggravation. He's a bad old lot! He used to thrash his grooms when he was savage, and after his wife, she was a real lady, a real gentleman's daughter, ran away from him; he beat a stable-boy that cruel that he killed him, and old Tilson was tried for it at the 'Sizes. I wonder if the old rascal threw they keys into the stream " This set me thinking. Had old Tilson thrown away the keys after committing a murder ? I looked for a blood stain on the bunch, but there was none. " Was he tried for murder ?" I inquired. " Manslaughter; counsellor Speydrill got him off. Gi' me the keys; if anything turns up about 3em, they'll be found here." He hung them on to the end of a rope coiled round a hook immediately opposite the bed. " Now you go to sleep, " said Mr. Strongitharm, " your brother must not sleep wi' you, for if you catch the age
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