Part 96 (1/2)
And tirand science, and rapidly beco him with the papers he sent up to the learned societies, till in the course of a couple of years people began to talk of the discoveries h
Then ca about two years and a half after the terrible storm
Toloriously clear night, and he and his uncle had been busy for many hours over Saturn's satellites, which had been observed with unusual clearness, was sleeping soundly, when he akened by the sharp rattling of tiny pebbles against his
”Hulloo! what is it, David?” he cried, as he threw open his
”I told you so, sir; I told you so,” cried the gardener ”I allus said hoould be”
”Soain?”
”Apples! no, sir; ten times worse than that Pete's took”
”What?”
”Just heard it froht
Pete Warboys has been for long enough ht over at Brackenbury Park, when the keepers coht One of the keepers was shot in the legs, and two of the poachers was a good deal knocked about
They were mastered, and four of 'em are in the lock-up”
”But you said Pete was taken”
”Yes, sir, he's one of 'em; and that arn't the worst of it”
”Then what is?”
”His dog flew at one of the keepers when they were holding Pete Warboys, and the man shot him dead”
”Poor wretch!” said Toly one surelie, but just think what a dog he'd ha' been if he'd been properly brought up”
The neas true enough; and fresh tidings ca that his brother had disposed of his practice, and gone to live down at Sandgate for his health
Then, as the days glided by, the report caistrates, which the Vicar attended
”I went, To ain to wean hi was too black against him He and the others have been committed for trial, and Pete is sure to be severely punished”
”Perhaps it will be for the best, Mr Maxted,” said Tom ”It will be a very sharp lesson, and he may make a decent man after all”
”_Nil desperandum_,” said the Vicar; ”but I am afraid”
The trial came on, and Tom felt te his old enemy in the dock, but out of interest in his fate, which on account of his youth resulted in the iven to a prisoner that day; and as soon as he heard it pronounced by the judge, Pete rather startled the court by shouting loudly to Toh--