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‘You never cried Widdy Warning before you begun to–night,’ says Durdles, unexpectedly reminded of, or imagining, an injury. The relations between Durdles and Deputy are of a capricious kind for, on Durdles’s turning himself about with the slow gravity of beery suddenness, Deputy makes a pretty wide circuit into the road and stands on the defensive. ‘This creature, Deputy, is behind us,’ says Jasper, looking back. Of the common folk, that is merely bundled up in turf and brambles, the less said the better. ‘All safe and sound here, sir, and all Durdles’s work. ‘Former pastrycook and Muffin–maker, much respected ’ introducing gravestone. ‘Departed Assessed Taxes ’ introducing a vase and towel, standing on what might represent the cake of soap. ‘Late Incumbent ’ introducing the Reverend Gentleman’s broken column. Sapsea ’ introducing the monument of that devoted wife. – Your own brother–in–law ’ introducing a sarcophagus within the railing, white and cold in the moonlight. ‘Durdles was making his reflections here when you come up, sir, surrounded by his works, like a poplar Author. ‘Not on any account,’ replies Durdles, adjusting it. ‘Hold your hand,’ cries Jasper, ‘and don’t throw while I stand so near him, or I’ll kill you! Come, Durdles let me walk home with you to–night.

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When we’re chock full and the Travellers is all a–bed I come out for my ’elth.’ Then withdrawing into the road, and taking aim, he resumes:– ‘All us man–servants at Travellers’ Lodgings is named Deputy. ‘I’m man–servant up at the Travellers’ Twopenny in Gas Works Garding,’ this thing explains.

‘Do you know this thing, this child?’ asks Jasper, at a loss for a word that will define this thing. John Jasper invites the boy with a beck of his head to follow him (feeling it hopeless to drag him, or coax him), and crosses to the iron railing where the Stony (and stoned) One is profoundly meditating.

This would seem to be a poetical note of preparation, agreed upon, as a caution to Durdles to stand clear if he can, or to betake himself homeward. – with a comprehensive sweep on the last word, and one more delivery at Durdles. I – ket – ches – Im – out – ar – ter – ten, And then chants, like a little savage, half stumbling and half dancing among the rags and laces of his dilapidated boots:– ‘He gives me a ’apenny to pelt him home if I ketches him out too late,’ says the boy. ‘Baby–Devil that you are, what has the man done to you?’ ‘I’ll smash your eye, if you don’t look out!’ ‘Yes, I’ll give ’em you down your throat, if you come a–ketching hold of me,’ says the small boy, shaking himself loose, and backing. ‘Making a cock–shy of him,’ replies the hideous small boy. ‘What are you doing to the man?’ demands Jasper, stepping out into the moonlight from the shade. The hideous small boy, on the contrary, whenever he hits Durdles, blows a whistle of triumph through a jagged gap, convenient for the purpose, in the front of his mouth, where half his teeth are wanting and whenever he misses him, yelps out ‘Mulled agin!’ and tries to atone for the failure by taking a more correct and vicious aim. Sometimes the stones hit him, and sometimes they miss him, but Durdles seems indifferent to either fortune. John Jasper, on his way home through the Close, is brought to a stand–still by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner–bundle and all, leaning his back against the iron railing of the burial–ground enclosing it from the old cloister–arches and a hideous small boy in rags flinging stones at him as a well–defined mark in the moonlight.

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