Now search the place carefully, while I stand here.

I am on my parole, I shall not run away.

Jacob, go down and help them.' "Whether from being in the army, or what, your father always spoke in such a way that the most stiff-neckedest people began without thinking to obey him.

So the constable and the rest went down, while the Captain and I stood upon the plank, looking at the four of them.
"For a long time they looked about, according to their attitudes, without finding any thing more than the signs of the manner in which the poor lord fell, and of these the constable pulled out a book and made a pencil memorial.

But presently Jacob, a spry sort of man, cried, 'Hulloa! whatever have I got hold of here?
Many a good craw-fish have I pulled out from this bank when the water comes down the gully, but never one exactly like this here afore.' "'Name of the Lord!' cried the constable, jumping behind the hawthorn stump; 'don't point it at me, you looby! It's loaded, loaded one barrel, don't you see?
Put it down, with the muzzle away from me.' "'Hand it to me, Jacob,' the Captain said.