United States or Haiti ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But perhaps it does not matter so much what the shouters shout. The first moment the shouters suspect what the whisperers are whispering, the whisperers on the other side they will stop shouting to listen. The whole industrial situation narrows down to this, might be put into two words by a hundred million people to-day, to Capital and Labor, "Swap Whispers!" The tumult and the shouting die.
"But Brother Japheth allows that's about what he aims to do. It's sort o' curious the way it works out, too. About a week after the baptizin', Jim Bledsoe came down from Pine Knob with a horse to swap. 'Long about sundown he met up with Japhe, and struck him for a trade on a piebald that the Major wouldn't let run in the same lot with the Deer Trace stock.
Douglas made a flying leap into the saddle while the Moose whirled on his hind legs. "Some horse, Doug!" exclaimed Jimmy. "I'll swap this and a two-year-older heifer for him." "I'm afraid he might hurt you. He's a regular man's horse, Jimmy." Doug lighted a cigarette while the Moose reared. "Thanks," grunted Jimmy.
But don't expect too much o' God, it wouldn't be quite fair If fer everything ye wanted ye could only swap a prayer; I'd pray fer yours an' you fer mine an' Deacon Henry Hospur He wouldn't hev a thing t' do but lay a-bed an' prosper. If all things come so easy, Bill, they'd hev but little worth, An' someone with a gift O' prayer 'ud mebbe own the earth.
It is the mad masque of the metropolis.... A friend comes up to me, one of the three hundred bosom friends with whom I am wont to swap shady stories. He is pallid with sleeplessness, deep horizontal lines furrow his forehead, his brows are convulsively drawn. So we all look.... "Look here," he says, "you weren't at the Meyers' yesterday." "I was invited elsewhere." "Where?"
It had stretched a bit year by year, for the trader's family had been big in the early days when hunters and miners of both breeds came in to trade, to loaf, and to swap stories with him.
If they had noticed, they would have found that she was sufficiently alert and interested whenever the talk stumbled upon the artist and his work; but they didn't notice, and so the chat would swap around to some other subject, and then somebody would presently be privately worrying about Gwendolen again, and wondering if she were not well, or if something had gone wrong in the millinery line.
Pupin has invented an apparatus by which he hopes to greatly extend the distance over which men may talk, and it has even been suggested that Uncle Sam and John Bull may in the future swap stories over a transatlantic telephone line. The marvels accomplished suggest the possible marvels to come.
It is in politics as in horses; when a man has a beast that's near about up to the notch, he'd better not swap him; if he does, he's e'enamost sure to get one not so good as his own. My rule is, I'd rather keep a critter whose faults I do know, than change him for a beast whose faults I don't know." No. The Dancing Master Abroad.
The latter dismounted, and, stooping down, touched the young man's worn footgear. "Mamook huyhuy moccasin," said he. "Swap moccasins?" Sandy repeated. "What for? Yours are new. Chee moccasin, you; oleman moccasin, me. What are you getting at? That's fool talk." But Simon insisted. "Mamook huyhuy," said he. "Halo mitlite oleman moccasin." "Why shouldn't I wear my old moccasins?" asked Sandy.
Word Of The Day