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I missed him at first because he used to be so kind to me; but now I don't, because Mr Creyton, whom Harry left to manage Five-Bob, comes just as often as Harry used to, and is lots funnier. He brings me something nice every time. Uncle Jay-Jay teases me about him. Happy butterfly-natured Gertie! I envied her. With Gertie's letter came also one from grannie, with further mention of Harold Beecham.
You know all those sorts of things, my dear Estelle, because you're paid by the government to know them. I don't; but I know lots and lots of things that are a sight funnier." She grabbed one of the pillows and flung it at her friend, who flung it back at her; and the simple creatures laughed.
I can't study, and I see all the funny things, and how I can make 'em funnier with a touch; and I want to giggle at everything, and well, it's that naughty streak, and I can't help myself, any more than you can help being good." "Well, Molly," resignedly, "promise me this, that, whatever you do, you'll be out and out about it: no hiding, no shirking, no lies."
"Funny, ain't it? Laff! Laff! But I'd wait till you hear something funnier I got to tell you. Funny, ain't it? Laff! Laff!" She looked up with her lips still sagging from merriment, but the dark red in her face darker. "Huh?" His bravado suddenly oozed and the clock ticked roundly into the silence between them. "Huh?" she repeated, cocking her head.
"You've given me something to laugh at for the rest of my life; I shan't charge you anything; I shall laugh at you in my sleep! I have never seen anything funnier than you last night." She went off very well satisfied. Shatov's appearance and conversation made it as clear as daylight that this man "was going in for being a father and was a ninny."
We've got big red ones, biggest ever you see, but I never heerd a sound out of 'em." Explanations ensued, and a digression in favour of the six puppies, whose noses were softer and whose tails were funnier than anything else in the known, world; and then
But better school-days came to Tommy before the last thing happened by which the people found out that he was a hero. A new little girl came into the fourth grade. She was a pretty girl, and wore pretty dresses, and had a fluff of brown curls about her face. She was "smart," too, the boys said; they said she could say "lots funnier things than Jennie Mills."
"But it isn't the question, either, just now, Jack, however you have been able to answer it. Do you mean to say seriously that you want to know anything more of a woman who could write such a letter?" "I don't know," said Jack, cheerfully. "She might be a devilish sight funnier than if she hadn't written it which is the fact." "You mean to say SHE didn't write it?" "Yes." "Who did, then?"
In no time at all OLD-man cried: 'Ouch! you are burning me quick! dig me out. "True to their promise, the Squirrel-people dug OLD-man out of the ashes, and laughed at him because he cried so quickly. "'Now, it is my turn to cover the captive, said OLD-man, 'and as there are so many of you, I have a scheme that will make the game funnier and shorter. All of you lie down at once in a row.
And the mud-clerk evidently thought that it would be even funnier to see Parkins hanged than it had been to see him fleece Norman. Gus the striker did not see how either scene could be very entertaining. But he was sick at heart, and one could not expect him to show much interest in manly sports. The steady beat of the wheels and the incessant clank of the engines went on as usual.
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