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nnot endure it; it's perfectly shocking." "Blister their bowls!" exclaimed Tooler, whose first impulse was to drag the dog out of the boot at all hazards, but who, on seeing the horses waiting in the road a short distance ahead for the next stage, thought it better to wait till he had reached them. "I'll make un remember this the longest day o' thar blessed lives,--blarm un! Phih! I'll let un know when I get back, I warrant. I'll larn un to--" "Hoa, coachman! hoa! my hat's off!" cried Valentine, throwing his voice to the back of the coach. "Well, _may_ I be--phit!" said Tooler. "I'll make yow run for't anyhow--phit!" In less than a minute the coach drew up opposite the stable, when the gentleman in black at once proceeded to alight. Just, however, as his foot reached the plate of the roller-bolt, another growl from Valentine frightened him backwards, when falling upon one of the old horse-keepers, he knocked him fairly down, and rolled over him heavily. "Darng your cloomsy carkus," cried the horse-keeper, gathering himself up, "carn't you git oof ar cooarch aroat knocking o' pipple darn?" "I-I-I beg pardon," tremblingly observed the gentleman in black; "I hope I-I--" "Whoap! pardon!" contemptuously echoed the horse-keeper as he limped towards the bars to unhook the leaders' traces. "Now then, yow warmint, let's see who yow belong to," said Tooler, approaching the mouth of the boot; but just as he was in the act of raising the foot-board, another angry snap made him close it again with the utmost rapidity. "Lay down! blarm your body!" cried Tooler, shrinking back. "Here, yow Jim, kim here, bor, and take this 'ere devil of a dog out o' that." Jim approached, and the growling was louder than before, while the gentleman in black implored Jim to take care that the animal didn't get hold of his hand. "Here, yow Harry!" shouted Jim, "yare noot afeared o' doogs together,--darng un, _I_ doont like un." Accordingly Harry came, and then Sam, and then Bob, and then Bill; but as the dog could not be seen, and as the snarling continued, neither of them dared to put his hand in to drag the monster forth. Bob therefore ran off for Tom Titus the blacksmith, who was supposed to care for nothing, and in less than two minutes Tom Titus arrived with about three feet of rod-iron red hot. "Darng un!" cried Tom, "this ere 'll maake un _quit_ together!" "Dear me! my good man," said the gentleman in black, "don't
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