The last,I think; for, O my poor
old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend."
But ride he would, as if Old Harry had been a-driving him; and he'd a son, a lad o' sixteen; and nothing would his father have him do, but he must ride and ride--though the lad was frighted, they said.
"Cliff's Holiday" has been the name of it ever sin' I were a boy; that's to say, some said as it was the holiday Old Harry gev him from roasting, like.
Tulliver, not without a particular reason, had abstained from a seventh recital of the cool retort by which Riley had shown himself too many for Dix, and how Wakem had had his comb cut for once in his life, now the business of the dam had been settled by arbitration, and how there never would have been any dispute at all about the height of water if everybody was what they should be, and Old Harry hadn't made the lawyers.
Tulliver was, on the whole, a man of safe traditional opinions; but on one or two points he had trusted to his unassisted intellect, and had arrived at several questionable conclusions; amongst the rest, that rats, weevils, and lawyers were created by Old Harry. Unhappily he had no one to tell him that this was rampant Manichaeism, else he might have seen his error.
But hypo crite as he's been, and holding things with that high hand, as there was no parson i' the country good enough for him, he was forced to take
Old Harry into his counsel, and
Old Harry's been too many for him."
To think, here I've been, night after night, a -- YOU just get well once, you young scamp, and I lay I'll tan the
Old Harry out o' both o' ye!"
Milty says the black man was the
old harry. was he, anne, I want to know.
And it's like enough the tramps know where we're going as well as we do oursens; for if
Old Harry wants any work done, you may be sure he'll find the means."
1 Pass Bankes Arms pub, go left at toilets and take path for
Old Harry, a chalk formation.
1 From South Beach car park at Studland, walk down the road past the Bankes Arms pub and turn left by the public toilets on to the path signed for
Old Harry.
Old Harry, and the remains of
Old Harry's wife, have been carved by the waves, together forming one of Dorset's most famous landmarks.