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ed him to all parts of the country, to their homes, and we drives off twenty minutes behind time with cheering and hollering as if we was county members. But, Lor' bless you, sir," says the guard smacking his hand down on his knee and looking full into Tom's face, "ten minutes arter they was all as bad as ever."
#Bi 'st#: "beest," art.
#County members#: members of Parliament.
BLOW-HARD AND HIS YARNS.
Tom showed such undisguised and open-mouthed interest in his narrations, that the old guard rubbed up his memory, and launched out into a graphic history of all the performances of the boys on the road for the last twenty years. Off the road he couldn't go; the exploit must have been connected with horses or vehicles to hang in the old fellow's head. Tom tried him off his own ground once or twice, but found he knew nothing beyond, and so let him have his head, and the rest of the road bowled easily away; for old Blow-hard was a dry old file, with much kindness and humor, and a capital spinner of a yarn when he had broken the neck of his day's work, and got plenty of ale under his belt.
#File #: a shrewd person.
What struck Tom's youthful imagination most, was the desperate and lawless character of most of the stories. Was the guard hoaxing him? He couldn't help hoping that they were true. It's very odd how almost all English boys love danger; you can get ten to join a game, or climb a tree, or swim a stream, when there's a chance of breaking their limbs or getting drowned, for one who'll stay on level ground, or in his depth, or play quoits or bowls.
#Quoits or bowls#: quoits are iron rings pitched at short stakes set in the ground. Bowls are tenpins.
THE RUNNERS.
#Wickets#: stakes which are driven into the ground as a mark for the ball in playing cricket.
#Po-chay#: a post-chaise; a hired chaise.
"Look here, sir," says the guard, after giving a sharp toot-toot, "there's two on 'em, out and out runners they be. They comes out about twice or three times a week, and spurts a mile alongside of us."
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