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"Perhaps it'll have stopped raining by then," said Bobbie; "anyhow, I'm glad I brought Mother's waterproof and umbrella." They went into the desert spot labelled General Waiting Room, and the time passed pleasantly enough in a game of advertisements. You know the game, of course? It is something like dumb Crambo.
"But you see we all have to do for somebody, and I'd as lief it would be teacups, for my part, as buttons." Bel Bree's old tricks of rhyming were running in her head. This game of Crambo a favorite one with the Schermans and their bright little intimate circle stirred up her wits with a challenge.
She constantly got up games of puss-in-the-corner, forfeits, and Dumb Crambo with her father and Mr. Longfellow, and made Scripture puzzles and geographical acrostics for the men. Old Mr. Longfellow was taking the voyage to restore his shattered nerves. From the first the captain disliked Henry. He was utterly unused to the sea and was nervous and fidgety in the extreme.
Perhaps when I have before had occasion to speak of it, your imagination may have glided to Westminster Hall, and depicted to you the scarlet robes and voluminous wigs of its respectable magistrates: but if you would form an idea of a magistrate here, you must bring your mind to the abstraction of Crambo, and figure to yourself a Judge without either gown, wig, or any of those venerable appendages.
The portraits on the sordid walls were very like the crambo in the minds of ordinary men, very like the motley pictures of the FAMOUS hung up in your parlour, O my Public! Actors and prize-fighters, poets and statesmen, all without congruity and fitness, all whom you have been to see or to hear for a moment, and whose names have stared out in your newspapers, O my public! And the company?
I do not say that the newspapers provoked these stupid rhymes, which are about as much poetry as is a game of crambo; but I do not find them until "newspaper-time," and fear the extra circulation through the weekly press may be held partly responsible.
About twelve assorted bread crusts, warranted dry and hard one with a covering of fossilised sardine. Six quires of valuable manuscript notes on various subjects, comprising Latin, Greek, Mathematics, French, and Crambo. One apple, well seasoned, and embellished with a brilliant green fur of two years' growth. No reserve price. Must be cleared out at whatever sacrifice." And this was another:
Langbain says that this play is full of bombast and fustian, and observes, 'That there goes more to the making a poet, than copying verses, or tagging rhimes, and recommends to the modern poetasters, the following lines from a Prologue to a Play called the Atheist. 'Rhimsters get wit, e're ye pretend to shew it, Nor think a game at Crambo makes a poet.
The Oleaginous Personage comes next with the question, "Do you like Crambo?" which was answered, rather ambiguously, thus: "If our last lingo was a specimen Of this most wise and learned game, 'Tis sure that thus not many men Would long be known to fame. Any of you as well as I Would knock our type all into Pi, If ghost, or man, or printer's devil Should show us up for good or evil."
Hyacinth isn't practical, and has never learnt to be, and Anne is. 'Then you approve? said Lady Cannon in a low voice of anger; 'you defend my being insulted, contradicted, and and asked to play dumb crambo by such a person as Miss Yeo! 'Oh, no, my dear; of course I don't. But I daresay she didn't mean to be rude; she was always rather eccentric, and she can be very tactful when she likes.
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