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Updated: May 21, 2025
There was no one with less air of reticence; I plunged into my company up to the neck; and I had a long cock-and- bull story of an aunt of mine which must have convinced the most suspicious of my innocence. 'What! they would have said, 'that young ass to be concealing anything! Why, he has deafened me with an aunt of his until my head aches.
Humorous half-columns in the local papers, written in the customary silly way by unlicked cub reporters just out of grammar school, tickled the fancy of San Francisco for a fleeting moment in that the steamship Mariposa had rescued some sea-waifs possessed of a cock-and- bull story that not even the reporters believed. Thus, silly reportorial unveracity usually proves extraordinary truth a liar.
Then, throwing down the pen upon the desk, he turned suddenly towards the half-caste, and addressed him with an air of profound contempt "Now, really, M. Faringhea do you think to make game of us with your cock-and bull stories?" Amazed, in spite of his audacity, the half-caste recoiled a step. "What, sir!" resumed Rodin.
Dick recognizes mystery, but not of the nursery-child variety. No cock-and- bull stories for him, such as you romanticists luxuriate in." "Terrence gets me," Dick nodded. "The world will always be mystery. To me man's consciousness is no greater mystery than the reaction of the gases that make a simple drop of water. Grant that mystery, and all the more complicated phenomena cease to be mysteries.
Then, throwing down the pen upon the desk, he turned suddenly towards the half-caste, and addressed him with an air of profound contempt "Now, really, M. Faringhea do you think to make game of us with your cock-and bull stories?" Amazed, in spite of his audacity, the half-caste recoiled a step. "What, sir!" resumed Rodin.
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