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"Dad, we often talk about natur; what is it?" "Tut," sais he, "don't ask me; every fool knows what natur is." "Exactly," sais I; "that's the reason I came to you." He just up with a book, and came plaguy near lettin' me have it right agin my head smash. "Don't do that," sais I, "Daddy; I was only joking; but what is it?"
There came a silence such as precedes the bursting of a storm, and in the midst of it Idernes spoke, somewhat thickly. "I did not come here, O Peroa," he said, "from the seat of government at Sais to eat your meats and drink your wine. I came to speak of high matters with you." "It is so, O Satrap," answered Peroa. "And now what may be your will?
"'No, sais I. 'In her hurry, she took my dressing-case instead of her own, in which was all her own jewels, besides those I gave her, and all our ready money. So I tried to resign myself to my loss, for it might have been worse, you know, and I looked as good as pie. "'Well, if that don't beat all, I declare! said she.
But our position, says I, among the nations of the airth, is it what our everlastin' Union is entitled to? "'Because, sais he, 'some day when I am asked out to dinner, some wag or another of a lord will call me parson, and ask me to crave a blessin', jist to raise the larf agin me for havin' been a preacher.
"Sais he, 'she ain't a bad mare; and if she could eat bay, might do a good deal of work yet, and he gave a kinder chuckle laugh at his own joke, that sounded like the rattles in his throat, it was so dismal and deep, for he was one o' them kind of fellers that's too good to larf, was Steve.
"Well, he's a trump, is Mr. Stanley, at least folks say so; and he'll say right off the reel 'onquestionably it is excellent policy. "When he says that, you have him bagged, he may flounder and spring like a salmon jist caught; but he can't out of the landin' net. You've got him, and no mistake. Sais you 'what outlet have you for the colonies?
Well, as I was saying, it was just at the time when the great Persian embassy came over to Sais to fetch Nitetis, and made everybody stare at them as if they were monsters or prodigies, that this shameful thing happened.
"Strike and at once, since we cannot hope to storm Sais, which is far away. Moreover such strength as we have is now gathered and if it is idle and perhaps unpaid, will disperse again.
But there was lawyer a-standin' up by the grove, lookin' as peeked and as forlorn, as an onmated loon. "'What's the matter of you, Squire? sais I. 'You look like a man that was ready to make a speech; but your witness hadn't come, or you hadn't got no jury. "'Somebody has stole my horse, said he.
"'Come, Pat, sais I, 'blaze away now. Back goes the hind leg agin, up bends the back, and Bull-Dog rises slowly to his shoulder; and then he stared, and stared, until his arm shook like palsy. Chee, chee, chee, went the squirrel agin, louder than ever, as much as to say, 'Why the plague don't you fire?
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