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In the range of poetry selected by the compilers of the readers for my especial benefit as I progressed onward from the primary class into the grammar grades I find on examination of these earlier American authorities an even greater array of chuckleheads than appear in the prose divisions.
Are you in earnest?" "It is truly as I have said." "Why, this makes me uneasy. Who were chosen, and what was the method? Competitive examination?" "Indeed, I know naught of the method. I but know this these officers be all of noble family, and are born what is it you call it? chuckleheads." "There's something wrong, Clarence."
Are you in earnest?" "It is truly as I have said." "Why, this makes me uneasy. Who were chosen, and what was the method? Competitive examination?" "Indeed, I know naught of the method. I but know this these officers be all of noble family, and are born what is it you call it? chuckleheads." "There's something wrong, Clarence."
If it was a question of provin' to a lot of chuckleheads that Jollygee and Genesis, or some other dead and gone Scripture folk that don't consarn no mortal soul, used to contradict each other, your tongue'ud run thirteen to the dozen. But when it's a matter of takin' the bread out o' the mouths o' your own children, you ain't got no more to say for yourself than a lamp-post.
It's nothing new under the sun for the crowds of chuckleheads to laugh where they ought to applaud; their habit is to laugh and to applaud in the wrong places. There's no part of my career that I'm prouder of than the whole of this thorough course of education in the trifles that are yet not trifles.
"Oh!" he cried in accents between a yell and a groan, "what chuckleheads we are! What numskulls! What jackasses! What double-treble-barrelled gibbering idiots!" Then he fell to beating himself over the head again. "What's the matter, Marston, for heaven's sake!" cried his friends, vainly trying to hold him. "Speak for yourself!" cried others, Belfast among the number. "No exception, Belfast!
It evoked the first cheerful sound I had heard that day: Ma Pettengill laughed heartily. "That old hair trunk never had the jazz to be any cinch binder. Who told you he was?" I named names all I could remember. Almost everyone on the ranch had passed me the friendly warning, and never had I saddled the brute without a thrill. "Sure! Them chuckleheads always got to tell everybody something.
They made the king tell his yarn, and they made the old gentleman tell his'n; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckleheads would a SEEN that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies. And by and by they had me up to tell what I knowed. The king he give me a left-handed look out of the corner of his eye, and so I knowed enough to talk on the right side.
They made the king tell his yarn, and they made the old gentleman tell his'n; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckleheads would a SEEN that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies. And by and by they had me up to tell what I knowed. The king he give me a left-handed look out of the corner of his eye, and so I knowed enough to talk on the right side.
So dey didn' none uv us git no money." "What did you do with the ten cents, Jim?" "Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chuckleheads, you know. But he's lucky, dey say, en I see I warn't lucky. De dream say let Balum inves' de ten cents en he'd make a raise for me.
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