`` Not frightened ? You are a queer little chap : but , if you want to be frightened , here goes -- Boo ! '' `` Ah , '' said the little boy , `` that is very kind of you ; but I do n't feel that it has made any impression . '' Tom offered to upset him , punch him , stamp on him , fettle him over the head with a brick , or anything else whatsoever which would give him the slightest comfort . But he only thanked Tom very civilly , in fine long words which he had heard other folk use , and which therefore , he thought were fit and proper to use himself ; and cried on till his papa and mamma came , and sent off for the Powwow man immediately . And a very good-natured gentleman and lady they were , though they were heathens ; and talked quite pleasantly to Tom about his travels , till the Powwow man arrived , with his thunderbox under his arm . And a well-fed , ill-favoured gentleman he was , as ever served Her Majesty at Portland . Tom was a little frightened at first ; for he thought it was Grimes . But he soon saw his mistake : for Grimes always looked a man in the face ; and this fellow never did . And when he spoke , it was fire and smoke ; and when he sneezed , it was squibs and crackers ; and when he cried -LRB- which he did whenever it paid him -RRB- , it was boiling pitch ; and some of it was sure to stick . `` Here we are again ! '' cried he , like the clown in a pantomime . `` So you ca n't feel frightened , my little dear -- eh ? I 'll do that for you . I 'll make an impression on you ! Yah ! Boo ! Whirroo ! Hullabaloo ! '' And he rattled , thumped , brandished his thunder-box , yelled , shouted , raved , roared , stamped , and danced corrobory like any black fellow ; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox , and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks , and sallaballas , with such a horrid din , clatter , clank , roll , rattle , and roar , that the little boy turned up the whites of his eyes , and fainted right away .
And at that his poor heathen papa and mamma were as much delighted as if they had found a gold mine ; and fell down upon their knees before the XXXXX man , and gave him a palanquin with a pole of solid silver and curtains of cloth of gold ; and carried him about in it on their own backs : but as soon as they had taken him up , the pole stuck to their shoulders , and they could not set him down any more , but carried him on willynilly , as Sinbad carried the old man of the sea : which was a pitiable sight to see ; for the father was a very brave officer , and wore two swords and a blue button ; and the mother was as pretty a lady as ever had pinched feet like a Chinese .
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