Suppose 'm you big fella white marster give 'm me one fella
stick, close up me washee- washee you that fella steamer.
He now took the
stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes.
They asked him how he had come to the conclusion that the ten crowns were in the cane; he replied, that observing how the old man who swore gave the
stick to his opponent while he was taking the oath, and swore that he had really and truly given him the crowns, and how as soon as he had done swearing he asked for the
stick again, it came into his head that the sum demanded must be inside it; and from this he said it might be seen that God sometimes guides those who govern in their judgments, even though they may be fools; besides he had himself heard the curate of his village mention just such another case, and he had so good a memory, that if it was not that he forgot everything he wished to remember, there would not be such a memory in all the island.
I looked for a
stick with which to jab back, but found only the end of a branch, an inch through and a foot long.
I shot it out of the pack in a moose pasture over 'on Little
Stick.
My directions in the memorandum instructed me to feel along the line traced by the
stick, beginning with the end which was nearest to the beacon.
I think that's a
stick," said Cornelius calmly, "but I don't suppose you will threaten me with that.
He tries them one after another, and very nearly gets at Willum's head by coming in near, and playing over his guard at the half-
stick; but somehow Willum blunders through, catching the
stick on his shoulders, neck, sides, every now and then, anywhere but on his head, and his returns are heavy and straight, and he is the youngest gamester and a favourite in the parish, and his gallant stand brings down shouts and cheers, and the knowing ones think he'll win if he keeps steady; and Tom, on the groom's shoulder, holds his hands together, and can hardly breathe for excitement.
The children stopped their crying, Lamai retied Jerry with the
stick, Lenerengo harangued herself breathless, and Lumai departed with hurt feelings for the canoe house where stags could sleep in peace and Marys pestered not.
She snatched up her
stick from the floor, and burst out with a hoarse shout of joy.
As he ran he put his hand into his pocket and took out the branched
stick from which the sling for shooting squirrels was suspended.
The
stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter--the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.
