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He will thrust it off from him and determine that it shall not oppress him. I know him so well." "We should all make some exertion like that in our sorrow, trusting to God's kindness to relieve us. You too, Hermione, should determine also; but not yet, my dear. At first it is better to let sorrow have its way." "But he will determine at once. You remember when Meeny went."
I guess God isn't so trifling as all that, having, you know, a lot of signs and getting ducked under water three times and all that business. I don't exactly know what His way is, but I'll bet it isn't any way that you'd have to laugh at if you saw it like as if, now, you saw old man Wright and God making signs to each other through the door, and Wright saying: 'Eeny meeny miny mo!
Evans laughed till she cried and declared that her headache had been completely scared out of her. She stood the figure upright and called the others to witness the lifelike attitude. "With her hand stretched out like that, she looks just as though she was counting 'Eeny, meeny, miny, mo," she said. "That's just what she does!" exclaimed Katherine.
"Yu shore looks funny; eeny, meeny, miny, mo," counted off the daring horseman; "move a bit an' off yu go," he finished. Then his face broke out in another grin as he thought of more enjoyment. "That there gent on th' left," he said, pointing out with a gun the man he meant. "Yu sing us a song. Sing a nice little song."
That we often played soldiers goes without saying, but we played "hares" more often, a game in which the counting was done by means of senseless words like the American "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe." Sometimes we would play war, with the names of the belligerents borrowed from the Old Testament, and once in a while we would have a real "war" with the boys of the next street
The receiver, it was said, was as bad as the thief; Meeny Kid had done the begging, and I was profiting by it. I decided that the receiver was a whole lot worse than the thief, and that it shouldn't happen again. And it didn't. I turned out next day and threw my feet as well as the next one. Nickey the Greek's ambition didn't run to The Road.
Meeny had been a little girl who had been born before the boy, and who had died when little more than twelve months old. "He did not expect that; but then he only shook his head, and went out of the room. He has never spoken to me one word of her since that. I think he has forgotten Meeny altogether even that she was ever here." "He cannot forget the boy who was his heir."
Orne jabbed his finger back and forth from his breast to the direction of Britt, with the motions of the "eeny, meeny" game. "I was mistook. You was mistook. I figgered on your money. So did you. I figgered you'd go strong in politics like you had in finance. So did you." Mr. Orne put his hand up sidewise and sliced the air. "Nothing doing in politics, Mr. Britt!
But the magic password to admit us to this unknown world of Greek and Roman prosody was after all the word Quantity. If a few of us were bold enough to ask the main difference between this Roman system of versification and the system which governed modern English poetry even such rude playground verse as "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, Catch a nigger by the toe"
"Oh, very well," said Hortense. "It would be more polite to make Andy It," said Owl. "Always be polite to ladies." "I'll choose between Andy and me," said Hortense. "Eeny, meeny, mona, my Barcelona bona sky, Care well, Broken well, We wo wack. "I'm It. I'll count to a hundred, and the newel post in the hall will be goal." There was a hurrying and scurrying while Hortense hid her face.
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