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The ass brays, the horse neighs, the sheep bleats the feathered denizens of the grove call to their mates in more musical roundelays. These are recognized facts, gentlemen, which you yourselves, as dwellers among nature in this beautiful land, are all cognizant of.
Why was it that as it drew near a feeling of cowardice so possessed him that he wanted to go away, go anywhere and hide until it was over, go where he could not see what it meant to others? It was humanity's home-time, and he had no home. Why "An ass that brays is wiser than the man who asks what can't be answered," he said, under his breath. "For the love of Heaven, quit it!
"The ass brays acknowledgments," answered Bunsey meekly, helping himself to another cigar. "You may rely on my loyal and devoted interest. The fact that I have heard your secret twice before to-day shall not open my lips or cause me to violate your trust." Notwithstanding my attitude of indifference I was greatly troubled by Bunsey's unfeeling suggestion.
When these dreadful machines were in rotation, mechanical organs, concealed somewhere in their bowels, emitted hideous brays and shrieks which mingled with the shrieks of the ladies mounted upon the galloping pigs, and together insulted a peaceful sky.
A favorite resort for a pet donkey was under my window, where he had uniformly slept in profound silence. But one glorious moonlight night, probably to arouse me to enjoy with him the exquisite beauty of our surroundings, he put his nose through this aperture and gave one of the most prolonged, resounding brays I ever heard.
" 'Yes, I am, replied the planter, with firm emphasis, as much as to say, you can't catch me as you did the other witness. " 'Oh! you are a naturalist, are you? Then, sir, I ask you, as a naturalist, do you not know it to be a fact in natural history that one jackass always brays as soon as he sees another?
Between bites he was singing dolefully to the tune of "Annie Laurie" one of the ditties of his quondam Sunday School: "The Boorjoys' brays are bonnie, Too-roo-ra-roo-raloo, But the Workers of the World Wull gar them a' look blue, And droon them in the sea, And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'll lay me down and dee." "Losh, laddie," she cried, "that's cauld food for the stomach.
Jorrocks, considering. "I'll lay I can!" "Which, then?" inquired Mrs. Jorrocks. "Vy, I should say it brayed." "Mule bray!" cried Mrs. Jorrocks, clapping her hands with delight, "there's a cockney blockhead for you! It brays, does it?" Mr. Jorrocks. I meant to say, neighed. "Ho! ho! ho!" grinned Mrs. J , "neighs, does it?
One mule was to be ridden by Washington, the other to be left to its fate, hidden in a dense growth of laurel. "I suppose he will awaken the whole country with his brays," growled Hippy. "There are mules and mules," observed Emma Dean. Hippy gave her a quick, keen glance, but her face was guileless.
But the moment the stranger arrives the scene changes, and the incessant din of dogs, hags and babies commences, to which the visitor is doomed till late at night, with the addition then of neighs and brays and occasional cock-crowing. It never seemed to me that these poor folk enjoyed life, but rather that they took things sadly. How could it be otherwise?
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