This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...teach her that I'm not to be come over so aisily." Upon this, with a long barley-straw, from behind the tree where he was, Duck began to tickle and teaze the ould woman's nose, that was almost as rough and as prickly as the ear of the straw.--Did you ever get your nose tickled that way while you were asleep?--If you ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...teach her that I'm not to be come over so aisily." Upon this, with a long barley-straw, from behind the tree where he was, Duck began to tickle and teaze the ould woman's nose, that was almost as rough and as prickly as the ear of the straw.--Did you ever get your nose tickled that way while you were asleep?--If you didn't, take my word for it, and upon my honour and conscience, it's far from pleasant; and so the ould woman found it. She scratched her nose with her long blue nails, muttered a curse upon the flies, and snored again.---Duck was in his glory; he tickled as before, and the ould woman opened her eyes, but he shrunk behind the tree, and didn't breathe: so she dropped off once more. The third time he touched her she awoke at once, and from what she said, and her preparing to get up, Duck knew she was sure of being teazed by something bigger than a fly: so, for fear of anything unpleasant, he moved off, and ran away across the field, chuckling in his own mind at the fine fun he'd had. When he got within a step or two of the gate, Duck heard a sound with which he was very well acquainted--I mane that of a stick descending with force upon his back; and within much less than a quarter of a second, he felt such a blow across his shoulders as he didn't get for many's the long day. He looked behind, thinking to see the ould woman, who he now thought was a witch, close at his heels; but no--it was only her stick!--There it stood, staring him full in the face, though its owner was yet but a little distance from the tree, and hobbling towards him, in such a weak way, that Duck felt sure she couldn't have had strength to throw it. Don't think that, while he observed this, Duck wasn't wriggling his shoulders to and fro, and bellowing lustily with the pai...
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