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Garland accepted the introduction with signs of abashment, but stated his business simply. "Doc, could you he'p me out with a coat like?" "Oh ... A coat, you say?" "Rags to my skin, sir. I 'clare you can see my meat...." The bearded one inspected himself downward with feeble cackles, hollow parodies of gay derision.
He was regaling his fellow-boarders with news that would be off the press the first thing in the morning, having been confined to the composing-room for the better part of a week, and he was enjoying himself. Charlie Webster once made the remark that "every time the Sun goes to press, Link Pollock acts for all the world like a hen that's just laid an egg, he cackles so."
"I dare say I can, my diplomatist. But you are not going to leave till the post has arrived, when you will receive business letters requiring your immediate presence in London. You are not going to let a woman know that you leave on her account." "You are very sharp, Cackles," said Dick, drearily. "And I'll take a leaf out of your book and lie, if you think it is the right thing.
They were 'so full of laugh' with the idea, that they were continually exploding into muffled cackles. Time swept on, and presently one who was peeping through the briers, said, with surprise 'Why, he hasn't come up, yet! The laughing stopped. 'Boys, it 's a splendid dive, said one. 'Never mind that, said another, 'the joke on him is all the better for it.
They were 'so full of laugh' with the idea, that they were continually exploding into muffled cackles. Time swept on, and presently one who was peeping through the briers, said, with surprise 'Why, he hasn't come up, yet! The laughing stopped. 'Boys, it 's a splendid dive, said one. 'Never mind that, said another, 'the joke on him is all the better for it.
Looks like a case of freezing and no grub, replied the Kid, sliding away in the opposite direction. 'Watch out! It may be mad, he warned, coming back from closing the door. The thing advanced to the table. The bright flame of the slush lamp caught its eye. It was amused, and gave voice to eldritch cackles which betokened mirth.
She cackles, takes up one foot and then the other, tilts back and forth, holds up her skirts and drops them again, cocks her head nervously to see whether they are all staring at her below, gives half a dozen preliminary springs which mean nothing, declares she can't and won't go up any faster, unties her bonnet strings and pushes back her hair, pulls down her dress to cover her toes, and finally alights on the next round, swaying to and fro until she gains her equilibrium, when she proceeds to enact the same scene over again.
All day he sits on his steps in the sun and peers through his bleary eyes across the mountains, and chuckles to himself like an old hen. 'Oh, I know what you're after, he cackles at me, shrewd enough to hit the nail square, too, Mark. 'And, he rambles on, 'you've come to the right man.
She pointed ahead of her. "Please look at Mrs. Mundy. She'll split her best black silk if she doesn't stop." Mrs. Mundy's cackles were getting shorter and shorter and, wiping her eyes, she joined us and nodded at Mr. Guard. "I haven't laughed as much since the first time I went to the circus, and if there's anything better for the insides than laughing, I've never took it.
Kansas: Where we've torn the shackles From the farmer's leg; Kansas: Where the hen that cackles, Always lays an egg; Where the cows are fairly achin' To go on with record breakin', And the hogs are raising bacon By the keg!
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