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It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. It has almost come to this, that you might as well be anybody else as yourself. Am I mistaken in supposing that this is owing to the discontinuance of big chimneys, with wide fireplaces in them?
Edith and the other woman again talked of hats. The huge fellow beside her said nothing but followed the women about the dance hall with his eyes. Edith thought she had never seen so homely a fellow. At the end of the dance the black-bearded man went through the door into the room filled with little tables and made a sign to the red- haired man to follow.
He's mighty fond of the news, but he's fonder, you see, of a penny! "There now, your honour, just look at that house! It's a magistrate he is that lives there; and why? Why, just to be called 'your honour, and have the people tip their hats to him. Oh! he delights in that, he does.
Both resorted freely to ornamental tattooing; both used shields decorated with hair; both were skilled in making articles of bamboo, especially hats; both were fond of dancing with accompaniment of singing and hand-clapping; and both dressed their hair alike.
"They see us, because they're waving their hats now!" observed Frank. "Yes, and I can hear them shouting," added his companion. Slowly the boat drew nearer, until in the end it was run up on the sandy beach of Cabin Point.
"Cogan's grand duke turned out to be a Peruvian, a dealer in Panama hats from Lima, and he told Cogan a lot about Panama hats, which weren't Panama hats at all, and other interesting things South America politics and bull fighting especially.
"Hooray!" cried Phil, twisting the rope about one leg and waving a hand to those below him. They drew a long, relieved sigh. The farmers, one after the other, took off their hats and mopped their foreheads. "Warm, isn't it?" grinned the owner of the silo. "Now, pass up your brush and paste on this rope." Phil had brought a small rope with him for this very purpose.
For, the granddaughter of "blue-jeans Jones," the tavern keeper, was looking the elegant and idle aristocrat from the tip of the tall, graceful plume in her most Parisian of hats to the buckles of shoes which matched her dress, parasol, and jewels.
Ulsters and sailor hats were appropriate enough then, but the genders were not easy to distinguish, especially as the elder girl wears her hair short no improvement to a keen face which needs softening. She is much too like a callow undergraduate altogether, and her sister follows suit, though perhaps with more refinement of feature indeed she looks delicate, and was soon called in.
As soon as the prisoner was cast loose, he commanded to pipe down, or in other words, to dismiss the people to their usual occupations, when I went up to him, and touched my hat. "Oh! you are come, are you? Pipe belay there send everybody aft on the quarter-deck." My commission was then read all hats off in respect to the sovereign, from whom the authority was derived.
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