Identifier: aaroninwildwoods00harr (find matches)
Title: Aaron in the wildwoods
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the fair inference from these twoexperiments—the only ones perhaps on record; forit cost half the morning to undo what we had effectedin less than an hour—to say nothing of the unceasingand outrageous uproar which took place along thedecks, especially under the guns, and even under thecoppers, forward in the gallery, where two or threeof the youngest pigs had wedged themselves, appa-rently resolved to die rather than submit to thedegradation of being deprived of their sable bandages. All this was very creditable to the memory ofpoor Shakings ; but, in the course of the day, thereal secret of this extraordinary difficulty of takinga pig out of mourning was discovered. Two of themids. were detected in the very act of tying on abit of black bunting to the leg of a sow, from whichthe seamen declared they had already cut off crapeand silk enough to have made her a complete suitof black. As soon as these fresh offences were reported, thewhole party of us were ordered to the mast-head as
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THE WHOLE PARTY OF US WERE ORDERED TO THEMAST-HEAD AS PUNISHMENT. THE ADVENTURES OF BASIL 133 punishment. Some were sent to sit on the top-mastcross-trees, some on the top-gallant yard-arms, andone small gentleman being perched at the jib-boomend, was very properly balanced abaft by anotherlittle culprit at the extremity of the gaff. In thispredicament we were hung out to dry for six oreight hours, as old Daddy remarked to us with a grinwhen we were called down as the night fell. Our persevering friend, being rather provoked atthe punishment of his young flock, now set to workto discover the real fate of Shakings. It soon occurredto him that if the dog had really been made awaywith, as he shrewdly suspected, the butcher, in allprobability, must have had a hand in his murder;accordingly, he sent for the man in the evening,when the following dialogue took place: **Well, butcher, will you have a glass of grogto-night ? Thank you, sir, thank you. Heres your honourshealth! said the other,

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