[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER FOURTEEN 13/18
It's my belief, though, that the wicked old walking scaffold was fast asleep, and has on'y just woke up." "Why, he couldn't go on walking in his sleep, Ike," I exclaimed. "Not go on walking in his sleep, mate! That there hoss couldn't! Bless your 'art, he'd do a deal more wonderful things than that.
Well, that there chap's a long time going by.
I can't wait." Ike looked back, holding on by the iron support of the ladder. "I carnt see nothing.
Just you look, mate, your side." I looked back too, but could see nothing, and said so.
"It's strange," growled Ike. "Go on, Bony." The horse started again, the baskets creaked, the wheels ground the gravel, and the cart jolted and jerked in its own particular springless way, and then all of a sudden: "I've been to Paris and I've been to Dover." Ike looked sharply round at me, as if he half suspected me of ventriloquism, and it seemed so comical that I began to laugh. "Look here," he said in a hoarse whisper, "don't you laugh.
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