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Updated: June 20, 2025
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?
As a contrast to the malicious pleasantry of the Cap Justice, were the gambols and jests of Robin Goodfellow a merry imp, who, if he led people into mischief, was always ready to get them out of it. Then there was a dance by Bill Huckler, old Crambo, and Tom o' Bedlam, the half-crazed individual already mentioned as being among the crowd in the base court.
I suppose it is a poor thing for a man to do, but it was very nice, especially at Christmas time. There are so few people who can do anything to help one over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Brian was good at everything charades, clumps, consequences, dumb crambo. And to think that he should be ill so long!
'All very jolly musical crambo that sort of thing.... What shall you wear, Edith? 'Mother, do let me have your long buttonhook. I want it. It isn't for my boots. 'Certainly not. What a nuisance you are! 'But, Mother, I've got it.... I can soon mend it, Mother. On Sunday evening Bruce's high spirits seemed to flag; he had one of his sudden reactions. He looked at everything on its dark side.
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