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Why do you always go to extremes?" "To please you!" he hollered out from under his blinders. "Jest to please you, mom!" Sez I, "Josiah Allen, you know you did it for fashion, so why lay it off onto me? But," sez I, "if you'll keep still I'll fix it all right." "Keep still!" sez he, "I don't see any prospect of my doin' anything else when I can't see an inch from my nose."
But she'd have to wear blinders on the bathing-beach, so I'll not do it." However, I am ahead of my recital. For a few days Tish said nothing more, but one Sunday morning, walking home from church, she turned to me suddenly and said: "Lizzie, you're fat." "I'm as the Lord made me," I replied with some spirit. "Fiddlesticks!" said Tish. "You're as your own sloth and overindulgence has made you.
"Certainly," cried Dick triumphantly. "Just send a note to Mr. Colquitt in care of Blinders' Detective Agency. I'm going to write the note now!" Dick was half-way to the tent when Darry called after him: "By the way, in what city is the Blinders' agency located?" Dick halted short, looking blank. "I don't know," he admitted. "Do you fellows?" None of them did.
Alonzo Hibbert, minus his four-quart hat, and wearing a flat straw hat instead, as well as light clothes and silk negligee shirt, came in advance of Tom Colquitt, the man from Blinders' detective agency. Still to the rear of them was a third man, slightly bent and looking somewhat old, though there were no gray streaks in his light brown hair. "How do you do, boys?" called Mr.
The horses did act rather queerly at first, and started a little; but they soon got over it, and now they go as steady without blinders as they ever did with them." The boy sat down, and the president said: "I think it is time that the whole nation threw off this foolishness of half covering their horses' eyes, just put your hands up to your eyes, members of the band.
The man who sees things clearly, who is able to recognise both sides of a matter, the man who can see all round a position, the opposite of the man in blinders, that man necessarily has a sense of humour. He is able, if occasion presents, to laugh at himself.
Why are all the laborers to be petted and coddled, and the capitalists held up to execration? Good Lord, isn't there any pity for the rich man without his drop of water, in the Bible or out? Are all creation born with blinders on, and can they only see before their noses?" "What are you talking about, Robert?" said Risley, laughing a little.
"The landscapes Van Twiller painted in the dark, or when he had his blinders on, can't be worth very much," insisted Gilbert. "You remember the Admiral thought it was partridges nesting in the underbrush at twilight, and then we found Joanna had cleaned the dining room and hung the thing upside down.
That is, I was until about 8:13 that evenin'. Then I got in range of them quick-firin' dart throwers belongin' to Miss Myra Burr. Say, there's some people that shouldn't be allowed at large without blinders on. Myra's one. Her eyes are the stabby kind, worse than long hatpins. Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork. "Ouch!" says I, under my breath.
"I am no Excellentie.... Of how much money, properly belonging to the Republics' war-chest, have you cheated this little fool of an Engelschwoman?" "Five weeks back, Myjnheer Commandant," bleated Van Busch, "I had from her one hundred and fifty pounds, which I swear as an honest man has been handed over to Myjnheer Blinders " "He has accounted to me." "Five weeks back ?" Van Busch hinted.
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