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Why no, I should say they danced as if they liked it and couldn't help dancing; they looked as if they felt so "corky" it was hard to keep them down. And yet they had been through such work to get their limbs strong and flexible and obedient, that a cart-horse lives an easy life compared to theirs while they were in training. The Master cut in just here I had sprung the trap of a reminiscence.
I want to stand so far away from it that I can't see the thing with a telescope!" He turned on Corky like an untamed tiger of the jungle who has just located a chunk of meat. "And this this is what you have been wasting your time and my money for all these years! A painter! I wouldn't let you paint a house of mine!
Stripping to shirt and drawers, I stowed everything in the knapsack and tied that safely in the fore peak. Then I swung out. Before I was a half mile out, I fervently wished myself back. But it was too late. How that little, corky, light canoe did bound and snap, with a constant tendency to come up in the wind'e eye, that kept me on the qui vive every instant.
The dapicho is certainly not peculiar to the forest that extends from Javita to Pimichin, although that is the only spot where it has hitherto been found. I have no doubt, that on digging in French Guiana beneath the roots and the old trunks of the hevea, those enormous masses of corky caoutchouc,* which I have just described, would from time to time be found.
We must not lose sight of the fact that they set out to acquire three separate and distinct fortunes. Courtney set sail almost immediately for a land where "Corky" was an unheard-of appellation or epithet as he was wont to regard it and where fortunes hung on bushes, if one may be allowed to use the colloquialism. He went to France.
It requires warm greenhouse treatment, with exposure to full sunshine; during late autumn it should have plenty of air to ripen the new growth made whilst flowering. In winter it should have a dry position near the glass. A pretty plant, resembling M. Grahami in all points except the seed, which, as is denoted by the name, is half enveloped in a corky covering, suggesting acorns.
Did you ever see such a get-up?" "It's marvellous. I thought she was a grand duchess." "That's what SHE thinks, if airs count for anything. I think she's a freak." "I suppose she was good-looking in her day," remarked his hostess's husband, appraising the grande dame with calculating eyes. "Do you think they're real?" asked Corky, and his hostess said she thought they were.
Now add the sugar and boil slowly for fifteen minutes, stirring constantly; if not thick enough boil longer, being very careful not to let it burn. Take off the fire and pack in small jars with brandied paper over them. The quince that comes first into the market is likely to be wormy and corky, and harder to cook than the better ones.
"You always agree with each other," said Courtney, pacing the floor in his despair. "Don't pull your hair like that, Corky," cautioned Jeff, with a good- humoured grin. "You've got to be very saving from now on." "A miserable pittance, a bagatelle," groaned Courtney. "It IS getting thin," commented Rip. "Eh? I'm not talking about hair, damn it!" "Be a man, Corky," cried Jeff cheerfully.
Corky was glaring at the picture, and making a sort of dry, sucking noise with his mouth. He seemed completely overwrought. And then suddenly he began to laugh in a wild way. "Corky, old man!" I said, massaging him tenderly. I feared the poor blighter was hysterical. He began to stagger about all over the floor. "He's right! The man's absolutely right! Jeeves, you're a life-saver!
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