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Bad as is overpugnacity, a scrapping boy is better than one who funks a fight, and I have no patience with the sentimentality that would here "pour out the child with the bath," but would have every healthy boy taught boxing at adolescence if not before.
But that happiness was a gift from life and love; it wasn't really ours life could take it back at any time. It can never take away the happiness we win for ourselves in the way of duty. I've realised that since I went into khaki. In spite of my occasional funks, when I fall to living over things beforehand, I've been happy since that night in May. Rilla, be awfully good to mother while I'm away.
Baggage-smashing, dog-smudging, ring-dropping, watch-stuffing, the patent-safe men, the confidence men, garroters, shysters, policy-dealers, mock-auction Peter Funks, bogus-ticket swindlers, are all terms which have more or less outgrown the bounds of their Alsatia of Thieves' Latin and are known of men.
When I think of him peeking down at me and playing off that damn cat probably without realizing it scared to death by gracious! Ridgeway, there was a pair of funks aboard this craft, eh? Wow yow I could sleep " "I should think you could." McCord did not answer. "By the way," I speculated. "I guess you were right about Björnsen, McCord that is, his fooling with the foretop.
"Then you won't see him. In fact I think you'd better not see him at all." "You mean he funks it?" "I funk it for him. He isn't well enough to be raged at and threatened with proceedings. It'll upset him horribly and I don't see what good it'll do you." "No more do I. I'm not going to live with him after this. You can tell him that. Tell him I don't want to see him or speak to him again." "I see.
"If he has, I'll go; and I'll do it myself." "You would?" returned Master Ripton. "Well, I'm hanged! I say, if you went to school, wouldn't you get into rows! Perhaps he hasn't found the place where the box was stuck in. I think he funks it. I almost wish you hadn't done it, upon my honour eh? Look there! what was that? That looked like something. I say! do you think we shall ever be found out?"
But I'm not. I'm the coward who's up to his knees, and funks letting himself all in for fear of not being able to reach what he's at least able to swim for." At dinner, Amaryllis, in sheer kindness of heart, shone with good humour, readiness of reply and flow of conversation. Randal, while he felt that she now and then forced the note, caught her motive, and responding, smoothed her way.
"Anyhow," said he, "it struck me that our friend upstairs was very hard hit. He made such a parade of his complete independence. Of course, I'm not much of a judge of such matters. Not my line. I understand that he has been prorogued I mean his departure has. He's to try his luck at coming downstairs this evening after feeding-time. He funks finding the way to his mouth in public.
German prisoners used to say on the Somme that their aviators were "funks," though the Allied aviators knew that it was not their opponents' lack of courage which was the principal fault, even if they had lost morale from being the under dog and lacked British and French initiative, but numbers and material.
"If he has, I'll go; and I'll do it myself." "You would?" returned Master Ripton. "Well, I'm hanged! I say, if you went to school, wouldn't you get into rows! Perhaps he hasn't found the place where the box was stuck in. I think he funks it. I almost wish you hadn't done it, upon my honour eh? Look there! what was that? That looked like something. I say! do you think we shall ever be found out?"
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