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"Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack?"
"No, by G-d, no more than yourself,--but I won't--it was something like that stopped all the trade fifteen or twenty years ago you have heard of the 'Loup'?"
"I have heard him (indicating the corpse by a jerk of his head) tell about that job. G-d, how he used to laugh when he showed us how he fetched him off the perch!"
"Well, but it did up the trade for one while," said Jack.
"How should that be?" asked the surly villain.
"Why," replied Jack, "the people got rusty about it, and would not deal, and they had bought so many brooms [*Got so many warrants out] that--"
"Well for all that," said the other. "I think we should be down upon the fellow one of these darkmans, and let him get it well."
"But old Meg's asleep now," said another; "she grows a driveller, and is afraid of her shadow. She'll sing out, [*To sing out or whistle in the cage, is when a rogue, being apprehended, peaches against his comrades.] some of these odd-come-shortlies, if you ,don't look sharp."
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