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Stuffing himself with Chinese sweets and hankering after puppy-pie, like the bargees on the Thames." "Oh, does he?" cried Smith. "Who ate the fricassee of rats?" "Oh, bother all that!" I said. "Here, Blacksmith, lend me your glass a minute; it's stronger than mine." "Ho, ho!" laughed Barkins. "His! The wapping whacker! Why, it's a miserable slopshop second-hand thing. You should have had mine.
I say, the skipper and Dishy are both going ashore to-day with an escort of Jacks and marines." "Are they?" I said eagerly. "Yes; there's some game or another on. Let's ask leave, and take old Ching with us." "Want to try puppy-pie again?" said Smith, grinning. "I want to do something for a change. I know!
Should it chance that an insufficient quantity of puppy-pie had been prepared for the family repast, the undesirable but necessary portion of cold dried rat would inevitably be allotted to the uncomplaining Quen, doubtless accompanied by the engaging but unnecessary remark that he alone had a Heaven-sent intellect which was fixed upon more sublime images than even the best constructed puppy-pie.
It was them put 'is back up calling out about who ate the puppy-pie under Marlow bridge." "Who DID?" asked Phyllis. "I dunno," said the woman. "Nobody don't know! But somehow, and I don't know the why nor the wherefore of it, them words is p'ison to a barge-master. Don't you take no notice. 'E won't be back for two hours good. You might catch a power o' fish afore that.
"Unquestionably the enlightened Wen-weng was well acquainted with the subject when he exclaimed, 'Better a frugal dish of olives flavoured with honey than the most sumptuously devised puppy-pie of which the greater portion is sent forth in silver-lined boxes and partaken of by others. At that time, however, this versatile saying which so gracefully conveys the truth of the undeniable fact that what a person possesses is sufficient if he restrain his mind from desiring aught else would have been lightly treated by this self-conceited story-teller even if his immature faculties had enabled him fully to understand the import of so profound and well-digested a remark.
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