Hiram rose, yanked the bottom out of the cage, caught the squawking bird after considerable damage to a forefinger, wrung his neck, walked down to the road, and flung him far over the opposite stone wall. When he came back he caught the battered hat from the top of the lilac bush and sent it after the deceased Absalom.
Then, sucking his bleeding finger at intervals, he went on writing his advertisement.
CHAPTER XXII—HOW SYLVENA WILLARD “TRIED IT ON THE DOG,”
WITH HAPPY RESULTS
Dan’l and Dunk and the yaller dog
Were owners and crew of the Pollywog,
A hand-line smack that cuffed the seas, ’tween ’Tinicus
Head and Point Quahaug.