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Sit steady, and gape at me like an idiot! "Oughtn't you to look funnier than that, yourself?" interposed Ranger, relaxing his own expression to ask the question. "Oh, of course; only I'm reading just now. Oakshott will have to get that up, of course. Now begin again. Go on; look a fool. That'll do.
To a man who happened to be already feeling that way, one can see just how it would cheer him up, give him courage, brace him to take a fresh hold." Jennings grunted. "Oh, well; if you're going to take every joke with such deadly seriousness " "You took it lightly, did you? It's seemed like a real joke to you? It's grown funnier and funnier every day, each time it caught your eye?"
I never saw a funnier sight than Pat craning and twisting his head in futile efforts to look at it under his own arm. "It's a foin piece of work, I'm told," said he. "They tould ye no less than the truth that said that, Pat. It's a mighty foin piece of work." "They all say so that see it," sighed Pat, tucking his shirt in again, "and that'll be ivry soul but meself, worse luck!" "Shaughnessey!"
But, honestly, old man, did you know how funny it was when you sent it? It's funnier than any of the books of Moses, without being bloody. What a dear, innocent old soul the Bishop is!
"How do I look?" asked the clown, noting the lad's observant gaze. "You look as if you'd stuck your head in a flour barrel," grunted Teddy. "Ho ho," laughed the clown. "I'll have to try that on the audience. That's a good joke. To look at you, one wouldn't think it of you, either." "Oh, that's nothing. I can say funnier things than that when I want to. Why "
In fact I was only created a few weeks ago. Bring me back my clothes, and in return I'll tell you a deuced sight funnier story even than that." Sir Justin rose and led his daughter to the door. "You will have an opportunity to-morrow," he replied stiffly. "In the meantime I shall leave you to the enjoyment of the joke." "But, my dear sir "
The angrier he got the funnier he looked, and when he was raging, and his neck swelled up over his collar and got red, he was entrancing. The whole story hinges on the Jap. The trouble was, I think, that no one took Jim seriously. His ambition in life was to be taken seriously, but people steadily refused to. His art was a huge joke except to himself.
Morgan pulled his beard thoughtfully. Bob read the letter through once more. "Quaint English, isn't it? The idea of a regular challenge gets me. I don't know when I've come across anything funnier." "The notion ain't so novel to me, but duels are scarce nowadays. The State ain't so overly encouraging to them. Hand me down those Statutes and let me see exactly how they fix us."
But when the four "children" returned, they looked at them a moment in silent astonishment, and then burst into shrieks of laughter. Mr. Maynard and Mr. Bryant had transformed themselves into boys, by brushing their hair down very wet and straight, and wearing large, round collars made of white paper, and tied with enormous bows. They looked funny enough, but the two ladies were funnier still.
Let him have milk and beef-tea as often as you can, and never leave him for an instant." Our landlord of The Chequers was very funny about the jim-jams, and funnier still about my suddenly taking to swell company; but I let him talk on, and he certainly kept unusually quiet, though no more inveterate gossip ever lived.
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