2/9 Tank you better," yelled the black, and he sheltered himself again behind my back. "Of course I will," and he tried to reach round me, but I caught hold of the cane, and Jimmy took advantage of the cessation of hostilities for a moment to run for some distance and then climb up a tree, in one of the higher branches of which he settled himself like a monkey, and sat rubbing himself and looking down at the danger from which he had escaped. That's as good a cure as the Queen's physician could have made." "How could you be so brutal to the poor wretch ?" I said indignantly. |