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"Shorthand writer in the Senate is a peaceful occupation." "Teacher of Volapuk is the profession of the future." "Try 'Hallo, are you there? in the telephones." "Wants to earn money? Advise him first not to lose any!" The most sensible one, who guessed the name of the acquaintance I was interested in, said: "You have been a managing clerk; go back to it."
"Shorthand writer in the Senate is a peaceful occupation." "Teacher of Volapuk is the profession of the future." "Try 'Hallo, are you there? in the telephones." "Wants to earn money? Advise him first not to lose any!" The most sensible one, who guessed the name of the acquaintance I was interested in, said: "You have been a managing clerk; go back to it."
His Hungarian speeches were rhetorical gems, yet they could hardly be styled Hungarian, for they were delivered in a perfect Volapük that is, in a medley of all possible languages. He was a strong personality, and a "grand seigneur." His purse was always open, and he spent his money with a liberal hand.
The violet is simply artful, the young widow among flowers, and to hold up such a flower as an example is not doing one's duty by the young. For true modesty commend me to the agave, which flowers once only in half a hundred years, as one may see for oneself at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Enough has been said to show what scope there is for revision of this sentimental Volapuk. Mr.
By these methods B.-P. won the confidence of his troops, and under him these rough tribesmen, half-devil and half-child, manfully fought their way through the jungle of forest, cheered by his encouragement, awed by "Volapük," and gradually growing to respect the dauntless courage of the white man who managed them so nicely.
One threw a stone which grazed Oliver's head, the other put his hand to his mouth and yelled: "Spad, spad," at the top of his voice. Oliver understood the epithet, it meant that he wore clean linen, polished shoes, and perhaps, now and then, a pair of gloves. He had heard the same outcry in his own city, for the slang of the street-rat is Volapuk the world over. But he did not resent the assault.
It originated with the fur traders of Astoria, Ore., and its growth was assisted by missionaries, until it became the means of communication between the whites and the Indians of the coast and interior of the vast Northwest, and even between Indians whose dialects were unknown to each other. In short it was a sort of Indian "Volapuk," and was very easily mastered.
The universal language of humanity is neither Volapuk, nor Esperanto, nor Ido. It is Thought, and when thought proceeds from a point beyond the plane of differentiation it can be determined along the line which makes for English as readily as that which makes for French, or any other tongue.
If the resultant rejoinder of wild volapük and expressive pantomime has any significance, it is plain that I am desired to understand that my exact status is that of a squatter on contested territory. There are those snickering squirrels, for instance!
"Shorthand writer in the Senate is a peaceful occupation." "Teacher of Volapuk is the profession of the future." "Try 'Hallo, are you there? in the telephones." "Wants to earn money? Advise him first not to lose any!" The most sensible one, who guessed the name of the acquaintance I was interested in, said: "You have been a managing clerk; go back to it."
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