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"No, there, is no good oratory to parliament now, and the English brag so, I doubt if it ever was so good, as they say it was in old times. At any rate, it's all got down to "Bunkum" now. It's makin' a speech for newspapers and not for the House. It's to tell on voters and not on members. Then, what a row they make, don't they? Hear, hear, hear; divide, divide, divide; oh, oh, oh; haw, haw, haw.
His matter-of-fact sailor mind was incapable of completely throwing out his earlier aversion to Vandersee. He was ready to find now that this "dog biting" password was simply a piece of theatrical bunkum. He was to be swiftly put right. "Ho much he bite?" came the rejoinder, unruffled, without outward interest. "Th' whole piece!" growled Rolfe. "Ship's sunk." "All ri'. Bring men here.
One is they'll sell you justice dear, but prime in these yar courts, if you were born at Kamschatkee; and the other is, hyar darkies are free as air, disenthralled by the univarsal genius of British liberty; and then I pitched Counsellor Curran's bunkum into this darkie, and he sucked it in like mother's milk, and in we came on tiptoe, and the first thing we heard was a freeborn Briton treated wus than ever a nigger in Old Kentuck, decoyed away from his gal, shoved into a darned madhouse the darbies clapped on him "
"She made me laugh," Cosgrave said simply. "I don't mind about the exam. or about anything now. I suppose I was bound to fail. But I was so jolly happy. I'd never had a good time like that. It's all over now. She doesn't care. She said she couldn't be tied up with a lot of trouble. That's what I am. A lot of trouble. It was all bunkum make-believe to think I could be anything else."
He carries his politics in his pocket, or what the penny papers tell him are his pockets; or, if he rises above selfish considerations he is taken in by the bunkum of his self-styled friends. But in what country are the free and independent electors wiser? Happily for Australia, his Radicalism rarely lasts long, if he is worth his salt.
I said, "pray, what is that?" "Did you never hear of Bunkum?" "No, never." "Why, you don't mean to say you don't know what that is?" "I do not indeed." "Not Bunkum? Why, there is more of it to Nova Scotia every winter, than would paper every room in Government House, and then curl the hair of every gall in the town. Not heer of Bunkum? why how you talk!" "No, never." "Well, if that don't pass!
She didn't care what became of me. She was watching the door all the time before he came. Who is he, Pritchard?" "That sounds a simple question," Pritchard answered gravely, "but it means a good deal. There's mischief afoot to-night, Tavernake." "You seem to thrive on it," Tavernake retorted, drily. "Any more bunkum?" Pritchard smiled. "Come," he said, "you're a sensible chap.
Oh! we must go there again. I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Shiel, Russell, Macauley, Old Joe, and so on. These men are all upper crust here. Fust of all, I want to hear your opinion of 'em. I take you to be a considerable of a good judge in these matters." "No Bunkum, Mr. Slick." "D that word Bunkum! If you say that 'ere agin, I won't say another syllable, so come now.
Behind the harpies advance the busy-bodies, the would-be well-informed, and a promiscuous crowd of well-intentioned do-nothings. Butler emancipates slaves The army not organized Promenades The blockade Louis Napoleon Scott all in all Strategy! Gun contracts The diplomats Masked batteries Seward writes for "bunkum" Big Bethel The Dayton letter Instructions to Mr. Adams.
It actilly makes me feel spotty on the back.1 When I was to London last, I was asked to attend a meetin' for foundin' a college for our coloured brethren. Uncle Tom had set some folks half crazy, and others half mad, and what he couldn't do Aunt Harriet did. 'Well, sais I to myself, 'is this bunkum, or what in natur is it?
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