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staff, “if your back’s broke, my chap— 
why, don’t go for to blame me, that’s 
all!” 
“I ’m thinkin’ Black Jar^e would find 
this chap a bit different ‘to Job,” re¬ 
marked the Ancient. “What do ’ee 
think, Simon?” 
“Looks as if ’e might take a good 
blow, ah! and give one, for that mat¬ 
ter,” returned the Innkeeper, studying 
me. “He be pretty wide in the shoul¬ 
ders, and full in the chest, and, by the 
look of him, quick on ’is pins.” 
“You-’ve been a fightin’ man, Simon, 
and you ought to know—but he ’ve got 
summat better still.” 
“And what might that be, Gaffer?” 
inquired the Innkeeper. 
“A good, straight, bright eye, Simon, 
wi’ a look in it as says, ‘I will!’ ” 
“Ah! but what o’ Jarge?” cried Job. 
“Black Jarge don’t mind a man’s eyes, 
’cept to black frequent.” 
“Job,” said the Ancient, tapping his 
snuff-box, “theer ’s some things as is 
better nor gert, big muscles, and gert, 
strong fists—if you was n’t a danged 
fule you ’d know what I mean. Young 
man,” he went on, turning to me, “you 
puts me in mind o’ what I were at your 
age—but don’t go for to be too cock¬ 
sure for all that. Black Jarge are n’t 
to be sneezed at.” 
“And, if you must ’it un,” added the 
Innkeeper, “why, go for the chin— 
theer are n’t a better place to 'it a 
man than on the chin, if so be you can 
thump it right.” 
“Thank you!” said I; “should it come 
to fighting, which Heaven forfend, I 
shall certainly remember your advice.” 
Saying which, I turned away, and 
crossed the road to the open door of the 
smithy, very conscious of the three 
pairs of eyes that watched me as I 
went. _ 
U PON the threshold of the forge I 
paused, and there, sure enough, was 
the smith. Indeed a fine, big fellow he 
was, with great shoulders, and a 
mighty chest, and arms whose bulging 
muscles showed to advantage in the red 
glow of the fire. In his left hand he 
grasped a pair of tongs, wherein was 
set a glowing iron scroll, upon which 
he beat with the hammer in his right. 
I stood watching until, having beaten 
out the glow from the iron, he plunged 
the scroll back into the fire, and fell to 
blowing with the bellows. But now, as 
I looked more closely at him, I almost 
doubted if this could be Black George, 
after all, for this man’s hair was of a 
bright gold, and curled in tight rings 
upon his brow, while, instead of the 
black, scowling visage I had expected, 
I beheld a ruddy, open, well-featured 
face out of which looked a pair of eyes 
of a blue you may sometimes see in a 
summer sky at evening. It was with 
something of doubt in my mind, never¬ 
theless, that I presently stepped into the 
smithy and accosted him. 
“Are you Black George?” I inquired. 
At the sound of my voice, he let go the 
handle of the bellows, and turned; as I 
watched, I saw his brows draw sudden¬ 
ly together, while the golden hairs of 
his beard seemed to curl upward. 
“Suppose I be?” 
“Then I wish to speak with you.” 
“Be that what you ’m come for?” 
“Yes.” 
“That’s a pity.” 
“Why?” 
“ ’Cause you ’ll ’ave a good way to 
go back again.” 
“What do you mean?” 
“Well, for one thing, I means as I 
don’t like your looks, my chap.” 
“And why don’t you like my looks?” 
“Lord!” exclaimed the smith, “’ow 
should I know—but I don’t—of that I 
’m sartin sure.” 
“Which reminds me,” said I, “of a 
certain unpopular gentleman of the 
name of Fell, or Pell or Snell.” 
“Eh?” said the smith, staring. 
“There is a verse, I remember, which 
runs, I think, in this wise: 
‘I do not love thee. Doctor Fell, or Pell, or 
Snell, 
For reasons which I cannot tell; 
But this I know, and know full well, 
I do not love thee. Doctor Fell, or Pell, or 
Snell.’ 
“So you ’m a poet, eh?” 
“No,” said I, shaking my head. 
“Then I ’m sorry for it; a man don’t 
meet wi’ poets every day,” saying which, 
he drew the scroll from the fire, and 
laid it, glowing, upon the anvil. “You 
was wishful to speak wi’ me, I think?” 
he inquired. 
“Yes,” I answered. 
“Ah!” nodded the smith, ‘to be 
sure,” and, forthwith, began to sing 
most lustily marking the time very 
cleverly with his ponderous hand-ham¬ 
mer. 
“If,” I began, a little put out at this, 
“if you will listen to what I have to 
say—” But he only hammered away 
harder than ever, and roared his song 
the louder; and, though it sounded ill 
enough at the time, it was a song I came 
to know well later, the words of which 
are these: 
Strike ! ding ! ding ! 
Strike 1 ding ! ding ! 
The iron glows. 
And loveth good blows 
As fire doth bellows. 
Strike ! ding ! ding ! 
Now seeing he was determined to give 
me no chance to speak, I presently 
seated myself close by, and fell to sing¬ 
ing likewise. Oddly enough, the only 
thing I could recall, on the moment, 
was the Tinker’s song, and that but 
very imperfectly; yet it served my pur¬ 
pose well enough. Thus we fell to it 
with a will, the different notes clash¬ 
ing, and filling the air with a most 
vile discord. 
The louder he roared, the louder 
roared I, until the place fairly rang 
with the din, in so much that, chanc¬ 
ing to look through the open doorway, 
I saw the Ancient, with Simon, Job, 
and several others, on the opposite side 
of the way, staring open-mouthed, as 
well they might. But still the smith 
and I continued to howl at each other 
with unabated vigor until he stopped, 
all at once, and threw down his ham¬ 
mer with a clang. 
“Dang me if I like that voice o’ 
yourn!” he exclaimed. 
“Why, to be sure, I don’t, sing very 
often,” I answered. 
“Which, I mean to say, is a very 
good thing; ah! a very good thing!” 
“Then,” said I, “suppose you listen 
to what I have to say?” 
“Not by no manner o’ means.” 
“Then what do you propose to do?” 
“Why,” said the smith, rising and 
stretching himself, “since you ax me, 
I ’m a-goin’ to pitch you out o’ yon 
door.” 
“You may try, of course,” said I, 
measuring the distance between us with 
my eye, “but if you do, I shall certainly 
fetch you a knock with this staff of 
mine which I think you will remem¬ 
ber for many a day.” 
S O saying, I rose and stepped out 
into the middle of the floor. Black 
George eyed me slowly up from the 
soles of my boots to the crown of my 
•hat and down again and, seating him¬ 
self on the anvil, folded his arms. All 
at once a merry twinkle leapt into the 
blue depths of his eyes, and I saw the 
swift gleam of a smile. - 
“What do ’ee want—man?” said he. 
Now hereupon, with a sudden gesture, 
I pitched my staff out through the open 
doorway into the road, and folded my 
arms across my chest, even as he. 
“Why did ’ee do that?” he inquired, 
staring. 
“Because I don’t think I shall need it, 
after all.” 
“But suppose I was to come for ’ee 
now?” 
“But you won’t.” 
“You be a strange sort o’ chap!” said 
he, shaking his head. 
“So they tell me.” 
“And what does the likes o’ you want 
wi’ the likes o’ me?” 
“Work!” 
“Know anythin’ about smithin’?” 
“Not a thing.” 
“Then why come ’ere?” 
“To loarn.” 
“More fool you!” said the smith. 
“Why?” 
“Because smithin’ is ’ard work, and 
dirty work, and work as is badly paid 
nowadays.” 
“Then why are you a smith?” 
“My feyther was a smith afore me.” 
“And is that your only reason?” 
“My only reason.” 
“Then you are the greater fool.” 
“Supposin’,” said Black George, 
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