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"Oh well," replied the other purposely allowing himself to grow humorous so as to cause Carl to forget the keen bitterness of his disappointment; "perhaps if we went fishing to-morrow below here we might take the trout that would have your paper tucked away in his little tummy."
The time is not far off when, unless we regulate a number of matters from within, we shall be regulated from without. Then, instead of giving the financial body a little griping in its gold-lined tummy, which is only the salutary effect of purging, a surgical operation will be required. It will be something like one they performed on the body politic of France not so long ago. Old Dr.
Remarks have been passed about my tummy which it is impossible to overlook." "But, Tummy Tuppy, I mean be fair. You once told her her new hat made her look like a Pekingese." "It did make her look like a Pekingese. That was not vulgar abuse. It was sound, constructive criticism, with no motive behind it but the kindly desire to keep her from making an exhibition of herself in public.
"I don't suppose you remember me," she asked. I put on my glasses and looked at her. No, I never then she put her handkerchief up to her lips covering the lower part of her face; it was the face of Madelene Hopkins. "Yes," said I, "I remember you perfectly, seventeen or eighteen years ago you used to sit on my knee and call me 'Untle Tummy. and I called you Maddie."
"If I had found a cat or a dog, the first thing I would have done would be to give 'em something to eat. I reckon I must have thought I had picked up an angel." To her he said, smoothing her hair with his free hand. "We'll have sumpin for baby's tummy mighty quick." He flushed at sound of that baby prattle from his lips. But it had popped out in the most natural manner possible.
September 21st, 1916. My Very Dear M.: I am wearing your talisman while I write and have a strong superstition in its efficacy. The efficacy of your socks is also very noticeable I wore them the first time on a trip to the Forward Observation Station. I had to lie on my tummy in the mud, my nose just showing above the parapet, for the best part of twenty-four hours.
An' I fought if I was deaded too, like Berta, I could go an' tell her I never meaned to be gweedy. An' I wouldn't eat my bweakfust, nor my dinner, nor nothing and at last my tummy shut, and I didn't want nuffing more." The Mother-Superior and the Colonel Commanding exchanged a glance over the little round head before the man's voice answered the child. "That wouldn't have made Bertha happy.
He has been stuffing himself, and now he doesn't know what to do with his tummy! Get out of my sight, you confounded fellow! Plague take you!" The native looks sourly at him, and merely twiddles his fingers instead of answering. A school-boy of his acquaintance passes by him with his satchel on his back. Stopping him the native ponders a long time what to say to him, and asks: "Well, what now?"
"Laurence!" said Mary Virginia, with a tremulous, half-tearful laugh, "Laurence, it's taken this one short winter to teach me, too. And you were mistaken, utterly mistaken about those symptoms of mine. It wasn't tummy, Laurence. And it wasn't temper. I think I am sure that what I was trying so hard to squall to you in my cradle was that I cared, Laurence."
Or, again, it's a heap more likely to be something quite outside of anything I know." "If they're immaterial then, they're spirits?" he questioned. "I don't know," I said. "It's so hard to say what I really think, you know. I've got a queer idea, that my head-piece likes to think good; but I don't believe my tummy believes it." "Go on!" he said. "Well," I said.
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