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The sharpest and strongest of these deadly weapons is generally stopped or fastened to the fore-tack bumpkin, a spar some ten or twelve feet long, projecting from the bows of a ship on each side like the horns of a snail, to which the tack or lower corner of the foresail is drawn down when the ship is on a wind.
That is how he was in his peaceful intervals; what he was during his attacks of anger, you may well imagine! He hit me no more with his cane, but his insults were the same, if not worse. With time I became hardened, I no longer heeded anything; I was an ignoramus, a camel, a bumpkin, an idiot, a loggerhead I was everything!
"A few days after I gave Assa's grandchild to the gardener, and told him the sixth toe had come off; I had made a little wound on his foot to take in the bumpkin.
He thought that we all were afraid of him, and that Oare parish was but as Moab or Edom, for him to cast his shoe over. 'Nephew Jack, he cried, looking at me when I was thinking what to say, and finding only emptiness, 'you are a heavy lout, sir; a bumpkin, a clodhopper; and I shall leave you nothing, unless it be my boots to grease.
"Dot Irishmans vos so fiery as der hair mit his head," he muttered to himself. "I dink I vos keep out of sight bis he vos cool off, and den Mine gracious, Bumpkin, var did you come from? I dinks you vos left behind py Arkansas City." For there had suddenly appeared before Humpendinck the form of the dunce, hatless and with his black hair tumbled over his face in all directions.
Lord Upperton was at a loss to know the meaning of the shout of laughter given by the company. "The bumpkin replied if I hadn't any pig-tail, a bit of plug would do just as well for a chaw." Again the laughter. "I expect I must have made a big bull, but, 'pon my soul, I can't make out where the fun comes in."
There was no descriptive reporting; but what could be more expressive than the announcement of a marriage in such terms as these: "On Tuesday se'n-night, Squire Brown of Bumpkin Hall was married to Miss Matilda Midas of Halifax, a handsome young lady with ten thousand pounds to her dowry"? We are much more florid nowadays, but by no means so precise.
The one they smuggle, but where get they the other? In a rough new country who'd think to encounter greater beauty and delicacy than can be seen skirting the Serpentine? Such eyes, such a waist, and such a wrist! And those cheeks how the colour comes and goes, telling everything that she would hide! And to think that some bumpkin will enjoy lips fit for a duke. Burn it!
Yes, and snoring loud enough to bring the plaster off the ceiling. Why, you must have been gorging yourself like a boa-constrictor, and been sleeping it off. Come, wake up, bumpkin, you're half stupid now." "I'm quite awake, Sam. Had a pleasant day? I say, were you sitting on my head?" "Was I doing what?" cried Sam. "No, I wasn't; but you want some one to sit upon you to bring you to your senses.
Some bumpkin of your own choosing some petty gentleman who lives down at that outlandish place of yours, Falls-Park one of your pot-companions' sons There was an outburst of imprecation on the part of her husband in lieu of further argument. As soon as he could utter a connected sentence he said: 'You crow and you domineer, mistress, because you are heiress-general here.
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