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[Editorial] by-by -> bye-bye
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<p>“But it ain’t agin my will,” said Dickie; “I want to!”</p>
<p>“That’s what <em>I</em> say,” said the man cheerfully. “So now we’re agreed upon it, if you’ll step it we’ll see about a doss for tonight; and tomorrow we’ll sleep in the bed with the green curtains.”</p>
<p>“I see that there in a book,” said Dickie, charmed. “He Reward the Wake, the last of the English, and I wunnered what it stood for.”</p>
<p>“It stands for laying out,” said the man (and so it does, though that’s not at all what the author of <i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">Hereward</i> meant it to mean)⁠—“laying out under a ’edge or a ’aystack or such and lookin’ up at the stars till you goes by-by. An’ jolly good business, too, fine weather. An’ then you ’oofs it a bit and resties a bit, and someone gives you something to ’elp you along the road, and in the evening you ’as a glass of ale at the Publy Kows, and finds another set o’ green bed curtains. An’ on Saturday you gets in a extra lot of prog, and a Sunday you stays where you be and washes of your shirt.”</p>
<p>“It stands for laying out,” said the man (and so it does, though that’s not at all what the author of <i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">Hereward</i> meant it to mean)⁠—“laying out under a ’edge or a ’aystack or such and lookin’ up at the stars till you goes bye-bye. An’ jolly good business, too, fine weather. An’ then you ’oofs it a bit and resties a bit, and someone gives you something to ’elp you along the road, and in the evening you ’as a glass of ale at the Publy Kows, and finds another set o’ green bed curtains. An’ on Saturday you gets in a extra lot of prog, and a Sunday you stays where you be and washes of your shirt.”</p>
<p>“Do you have adventures?” asked Dick, recognizing in this description a rough sketch of the life of a modern knight-errant.</p>
<p>“ ’Ventures? I believe you!” said the man. “Why, only last month a brute of a dog bit me in the leg, at a back door Sutton way. An’ once I see a elephant.”</p>
<p>“Wild?” asked Dickie, thrilling.</p>
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