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As the bottle was being opened the Pasha took up his string of beads and began to finger them, for the blue eyes in the poke bonnet were disconcerting. He was about to speak when Hope said, in a clear voice: "Thee has a strange people beneath thee. Thee rules by the sword, or the word of peace, friend?" The fat, smooth hands fingered the beads swiftly.
The polished ring of metal in which it had been mounted alone remained. "It's gone!" cried Ned in bewilderment. "I can see your desk top right through where it was!" "No," smiled the inventor, "it's still there as you'll find if you try to poke your finger through the metal ring." A trifle gingerly his chum extended his hand toward the circle of metal.
'But it must be so cold, said Sylvia, shuddering and giving a little poke to the fire to warm her fancy. 'Cold! said her father, 'what do ye stay-at-homes know about cold, a should like to know?
"You can if you try; I've heard you whistlin' 'Rule Britannia' scores of times, or bits of it. Now I'm goin' to beat this mat and make believe to be talkin' to 'ee. At the very first sound old Mrs. Scantlebury'll poke her head out, she always does. So you go on whistlin', and don't mind anything I say.
I will here state that a general election occurred the week before we sailed; and I ran down to Householder and got myself returned, in order to protect the interests of those who had a natural right to look up to me for that small favor. We discharged the pilot when we had the Scilly Islands over the taffrail, and Mr. Poke took command of the vessel in good earnest.
'Come, you'd better stay and get work here! I'd sooner be at the plough-tail all day, than poke out my eyes over stuff like that, pointing to Paul's slate, covered with figures. 'Here, Nelly, as she moved about, tidying the room, 'do you hear? Mr. Cope's got an offer of a place for Paul five pounds a year, and board and lodging, to be school-master's whipper-in, or what d'ye call it?
"Lord Poke is a countryman of our royal cousin, the Prince Bob!" observed the queen, in an exceedingly gracious manner. "No, marm," put in the sealer, promptly, "your cousin Bob is no cousin of mine; and if it were lawful for your majesty to have a memory, or an inclination, or anything else in that way, I should beg the favor of you to order the young blackguard to be soundly threshed."
Brent had scolded her and "poked about" her cottage, going into her tiny "wash 'us," and up into her infinitesimal bedroom under the slanting roof, to see that they were kept clean. Miss Vanderpoel showed no disposition to "poke." She sat and listened, and made an inquiry here and there, in a nice voice and with a smile in her eyes.
'Who brought that 'ere scare-crow out of standin' corn and stuck him here? 'I guess that 'ere citizen came from away down east out of the Notch of the White Mountains. 'Here comes the Cholera doctor, from Canada not from Canada, I guess, neither, for he don't look as if he had ever been among the rapids. If they wouldn't poke fun at him it's a pity.
It gives a feeling of superiority, and that is why all races love to poke fun at other races: certain characteristics of Jew, Irishman, Yankee, Scot, etc., are presented in novel and striking fashion, in a playful manner.
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