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"Ain't you comin' to the ghost, Jack?" said the little man hungrily. "All in course, sir. Well, gentlemen, it was hard times pretty often with my grandfather and his friends, as you may suppose; and never so much as when they had to trudge it across country, with the nor'-easter buzzin' in their teeth and the snow piled on their cockt hats like lemon sponge on entry dishes.
He played the clarinet, I say; and my father played the musical glasses, which was a form of harmony pertiklerly genial to him. Amongst us we've piped out a good long century ah! we have, for all I look sich a babby bursting on sops and spoon meat." "What!" said the little man by the door. "You don't include them cockt hatses in your expeerunce?" "My grandfather wore 'em, sir.
As we now say 'a bee in his bonnet'. For 'Gad-bee' cf. Holland's Pliny I, 318. The Lucky Chance, ii, II: 'The Gad-Bee's in his Quonundrum' and note on that passage infra. p. 142 Cockt. Set his hat jauntily. A very frequent phrase. p. 146 Slashes. Bumpers. From the idea of vigour contained in 'slash'. The word is extremely rare in this sense and perhaps only found here. But cf.
She's knockt trade into a cockt up hat and chaned Bizness of all kinds tighter nor I ever chaned any of my livin wild Beests. Alow me to hear dygress & stait that my Beests at presnt is as harmless as the newborn Babe. Ladys & gentlemen needn't hav no fears on that pint. To resoom Altho I can't exactly see what good this Krysis can do, I can very quick say what the origernal cawz of her is.
He is attired in a red shirt and black trowsis, which last air turned up over his boots; his hat, which it is a plug, being cockt onto one side of his classical hed. In sooth, he was a heroic lookin person, with a fine shape. Grease, in its barmiest days, near projuced a more hefty cavileer. "Ha! do me eyes deceive me earsight? Is it some dreams? No, I reckon not!
My cockt hat fell off, and sumhow my coat tales got twisted round my neck. The young ladies put their handkerchers to their mouths and remarked: "Te he," while my ancient female single friend, Sary Peasley, bust out in a loud larf. She exercised her mouth so vilently that her new false teeth fell out onto the ground.
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