Oliver Onions

Name: Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories — Back o' the Moon: Chapter 13
Author: Oliver Onions

Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

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“Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories — Back o' the Moon: Chapter 13”, published in 1906, is a work by Oliver Onions. It explores elements such as Cope, Wadsworth and stacks.

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ It was much that a chaise had got as far as Wadsworth; legs alone could clear the Scout. A man was despatched with a couple of horses to strike the Causeway lower down the valley and then to wait on the heights, and Cope descended from the chaise with the broken lamp-glass. At that, out stepped the parson from his house, and earnestly besought him to remain behind.
“Look!” he cried, pointing up the Scout, that seemed to crawl with ascending figures, “and not a man among them but bears you the worst will in the world! ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ The Scout shimmered in the heat, and spots of red straggled here and there among the bracken and birches and teazels. Besides these, many dark figures moved and clustered, Wadsworth men, Horwick men, men from Booth and Brotherton and Back o' th' Mooin. Down in the village the search-parties slowly ascended the street and began in the square and the houses that stood back; and Cope still gnawed at his finger in the yellow chaise, now and then striking the wood with his fist in his mortification. ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ The officer had sprung half-way up the ladder, his back to a stack; he called a cracking order. Down the rank of men in the road three rhythmic movements passed like a wave, and there was a sharp clicking of musket-locks. The tumult changed to a frantic backward pressure—they fell back behind the stacks, against walls, anywhere from the row of levelled muskets. The officer up the ladder called more orders, and those who had formed the lane drew up at right-angles to the others, enclosing two sides of the yard. ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ And did they think to take Big Monjoy when all was done?—They were tingling for quarrel; the stacks would serve as well for a pretext as anything else; the disturbing of a sitting hen would have served; and the mob swayed like a flood. A Back o' th' Mooiner had a cudgel; it crossed a bayonet suddenly; there was a rush, and a breach appeared in the red-coated line; and fifty men poured through it, taking the other rank in the backs. The yard was a confusion of struggling men, with a redcoat or a bayonet isolated here and there. ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ Raikes I hold in my finger, Moon's locked inside his own doors, and a dozen I've marked over yonder shall be in this square in a quarter of a day from now; remains the big man.... Their furnaces? I'll make their furnaces such a place o' dread with swinging bodies....” He became inarticulate, and soon, suddenly dropping his voice a little, he cried, “Up! Why are we talking here? Up!”
On the fourteenth day of August, of the year 1779, at half-past three in the afternoon, they hoisted and pushed and carried Jeremy Cope up Wadsworth Scout to where the horses waited on the Causeway. ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ The surrounding of the premises was futile; the officer in charge gave sharp orders; and with bayonets fixed a double rank of men facing outwards formed a lane from the gate to the stacks. The rest drew up in close order out in the road.
Down the bayonet-guarded lane four men advanced with a ladder. It was placed against the foremost stack, and a man went up it with a pistol in his hand and crawled under the wooden roof. “He'll ha' little time to use a pistol if Arthur gets a hand on him i' yonder,” the watchers muttered ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ The devil take the women! ... Yes, for me; but they've got a prickly piece when they've got me. I've made myself safe, as I've made all safe this many a year; they'd ha' been badly to seek this last day or two wi'out Matthew. Now listen. Arthur 'll have to chance it for himself now. 'The parson's, Wadsworth, to-night,' was all I said in the note. I'm not going to tell ye where he is, and if ye love him keep away from the parson's—keep out o' Wadsworth. The parson's! ”

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Oliver Onions, Back o' the Moon, and Other Stories… (1906)

“ I'd see to Jimmy, too, I promised——”
“Sally wouldn't hold ye to it if she knew how it is; let Dooina see to her.”
“No, no, I can't; he must do the best he can while I can join him. It must come to pass as it will.” ”

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