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"We are meeting with them all over town." "Yes, yes," replied Whyland, with the sprightly ingenuousness of a boy. "Whoever looks for a fair return on his money nowadays must keep a little in advance of legislation." "Just what Pence was saying only yesterday." "I snatched that great truth from my slight association with the Tax Commission," burbled Whyland.

He held out against putting his multiplication sign to the treaty, claiming that land was like water and air and could n't be bought and sold. But the white men with true missionary courtesy held his head under water till he burbled 'Nuff, and signed up with a piece of charcoal.

"It was he brought that flag, wrapped round something," explained one of the men, in Arabic. "When he saw we had other flags, but none of Cook, he gave it to us to put over the biggest tent, because he thought it shameful to have no flag of the master's." "Cook isn't the master. I'm it," I burbled, with a leap to catch the tell-tale square of white as it reluctantly came down. But I was too late.

Her voice went on, velvety in his ear: "It was the moonlight, sweetheart, coming on your face." Little Jon burbled into her nightgown "You said it was beautiful. Oh!" "Not to sleep in, Jon. Who let it in? Did you draw the curtains?" "I wanted to see the time; I I looked out, I I heard you playing, Mum; I I ate my macaroon."

"Fool am I, you little ugly thief? Worn't you a-scorchin' down the road w'it? I see you." The other Amorians curled up with laughter at the way things were mixing up, and at the last exquisite joke. "Jove, Rogers, to think you meant to steal it!" burbled Poulett. "Leave loose of my collar, you idiot," said Rogers, squirming in the man's grasp; "I tell you it's all a mistake."

His particular pet was one with a hollow around the point, which made a whistling sound when it flew, and was sometimes called the "Whistler" and sometimes the "Jabberwock," "which whiffled through the tulgy wood and burbled as it came." The Dam One hot day early in July they were enjoying themselves in the shallow bathing-hole of the creek, when Sam observed: "It's getting low.

He turned and made his way to the creek that burbled over the rocks a short way down the ravine and Alice drew on her riding-boots and joined Endicott who had made his way painfully toward the fire where he stood gazing ruefully at the begrimed wreck of a white collar which he held in his hand. The Texan returned and placed the coffee-pot close against the tiny blaze.

"Gee!" he burbled, "we'll hit down toward Florida palms and alligators and and everything Land of Flowers! What's this hotel? the Royal Points de Anna? Play the mouth-organ there. Make a hit. Then we'll strike New Orleans and jump to San Francisco.... Gee! it's a long way between houses along here!" They approached a farm-yard.

All in all, she was a figure to awaken interest in the nightly performance at the Palace Garden, and to cause men customers to forget their change. "Miss Knight! I'm SO glad to see you again," she burbled. "How SWEET you look!" The poodle pawed frantically and yelped a shrill appreciation of the meeting. "I hoped we'd meet again; but where HAVE you been? I Hush, Francois!

He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!