Tales from Blackwood, Volume 2
Tales from Blackwood, Volume 2
Lazaro's Legacy. By Colonel E. B. HamleyA Story without a Tail. By Dr MaginnFaustus and Queen ElizabethHow I became a Yeoman. By Professor AytounDevereux Hall. By Mrs SoutheyThe Metempsychosis. By Dr Robert MacnishCollege Theatricals
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ajor, "that you haven't a joint of mutton instead of this sheep's head. I ought to have been sharper. The animal was actually sold in parts before he was killed. Old Clutterbuck had secured a haunch, and he a single man, you know--'tis thrown away upon him. I offered him something handsome for his bargain, but he wouldn't part with it."
"We're lucky to get any," returned Owen. "Never was such a scramble. Old Fiskin, the commissary, and Mrs O'Regan, the Major's wife, both swore the left leg was knocked down to them; neither would give in, and it was put up again, when the staff doctor, Pursum, who had just arrived in a great hurry, carried it off by bidding eightpence more than either. Not one of the three has spoken to either of the others since; and people say," added Owen, "Mrs O'Regan avers openly that Fiskin didn't behave like a gentleman."
"God knows!" said my grandfather, "'tis a difficult thing in such a case to decide between politeness and a consciousness of being in the right. Fiskin l
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