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Jim shook his head, and says: "Why, Mars Tom, if you knowed what chuckle-heads dem painters is, you'd wait a long time before you'd fetch one er DEM in to back up a fac'. I's gwine to tell you, den you kin see for you'self.
"Well, of all the chuckle-heads! A nasty FEMALE dog, with your birthday money!" "She's not one bit nasty!" flamed Dick, burying the grubby fingers of his right hand protectively in the fluffy mass of the puppy's half-grown ruff. "She's the dandiest dog ever! She " "Don't talk back to me!" snapped Mrs. Hazen. "Here! Turn right around and take her to the cheats who sold her to you.
"Oh," says he, "I don't think so. The American public are a good-natured set of chuckle-heads, mostly. If they get sore I'll talk 'em out of it." If he had any faults at all and mind you, I ain't saying Doctor Kirby had any the one he had hardest was the belief he could talk any crowd into any notion, or out of it, either. And he loved to do it jest fur the fun of it.
"That makes a lot of chuckle-heads out of the rest of us, doesn't it?" "Oh, I wouldn't say that, Lieutenant. But you did make life rather hard for Siddons. He was afraid to form close friendships. Poor Hampden was the only one he was ever very close to, and Hampden was as ignorant of the facts as any of you. Siddons had to be careful. He knows that the Germans also have spies.
There will always be one or two in the audience who will take that view natural selection always overlooks a few chuckle-heads. Now let us tabulate some of the results that may be obtained in this way: By getting these books into the hands of our hearers we give our teachings from the platform a greater permanence in their minds.
There wasn't room enough for two such chuckle-heads and one of 'em being a woman, she couldn't be shut up or sat upon ez we did to HIM. But now, gentlemen, ez we see she ain't that kind, but high-toned and level-headed, and that she's got the grip on Prossy whether he likes it or not we ain't goin' to let him go back on her! No, sir! we ain't goin' to let him break her heart the second time!
His timidity was of that wholesome strength which so often saves chuckle-heads from the legitimate consequences of their vanity and folly. But the spectacle of huge fortunes, risen overnight before the wands of financial magicians whose abilities he despised when he compared them with his own, was too much for timidity.
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