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If it were Monday, I'd wager you a plum that they would all leave your oats to eat clover-hay out of my hand." "We'll arrange about the bet to-morrow, and now try the experiment," said Mr. Yocomb, relapsing into his genial humor at once. I was learning, however, that a deep, earnest nature was hidden by this outward sheen and sparkle.
He ended amid a storm of applause, was reinstated at once, and was made President of the next Democratic State Convention. There he was in his glory. His tact and good humor were infinite, and he held those hundreds of excitable and explosive men in the hollow of his hand. He would dismiss a dangerous motion with a witticism so apt that the mover himself would join in the laugh, and give it up.
But she interrupted with such a "Mica!" that I did not venture on another word. "What did she say?" Paul asked. "She said she thought you were charming." But he was in no humor for joking, and begged me dryly not to make fun of him; so I translated her question and my polite offer, which had been so rudely rejected. Then he really became as restless as a caged squirrel.
West kept his good humor and self-control intact, but it was hardly to be expected that he enjoyed venomous misrepresentation of this sort. The solidest comfort he got in these days came from Sharlee Weyland, who did not read the Chronicle, and was most beautifully confident that whatever he had done was right.
It was a four-walled jail one-doored, one-windowed, iron-barred ill-smelling, verminous, too hot for words and too suggestive of the opposite of home, sweet home to call forth humor, even from a seaman. "They'll come an' rescue us," moaned Byng. "They'll quarantine the pair of us for being lousy, and they'll turn the perishing salt-water hose on us.
From Erfurt, on the night of his arrival, finding the Dauphiness in such humor, Friedrich had ordered Ferdinand of Brunswick with his Division and Prince Moritz with his, both of whom were still at Naumburg, to go on different errands, Ferdinand out Halberstadt-Magdeburg way, whither Richelieu, vulture-like, if not eagle-like, is on wing; Moritz to Torgau, to secure our magazine and be on the outlook there.
"Comes to a private ball without an invitation, and has a merry time of it indeed. To have the perfect sense of humor that is what makes the world go round." "Aren't you taking extra risk in offering me these pleasantries?" I asked. "Risks? In what manner?" "The man you so cleverly impersonated is at the club." I do not know what prompted me to put him on his guard. The rogue laughed lightly.
The great mass of us like to see the absolute reign of reason tempered by the incomprehensible, and are ever ready to lend a kindly ear to men and things that humor that liking. Where do all the birds, myriads in number and scores in species, go when they leave the North in the winter?
"He must have quieted down for good," says another. "The town ought to see that he keeps quiet." And they move on, and Pelle must move on, too anywhere, where no one can see him. "Cobbler, wobbler, groats in your gruel, Smack on your back goes the stick how cruel!" It is those accursed street-urchins. Pelle is by no means in a warlike humor; he pretends not to see them.
When the latter party arrived, the nearest one of the three herds had been passed upon, but the contractors stood on the carriage seats and attempted to look over the cordon of troopers, formed into a hollow square, which surrounded them. The troop were mounted on chestnut horses, making a pretty sight, and I think they enjoyed the folly and humor of the situation fully as much as we did.
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