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Updated: May 7, 2025
Your old troubadour especially who embraces you with all his heart, and begs to be remembered to your good mother. G. Sand LXXIII. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday night Dear master, dear friend of the good God, "let us talk a little of Dozenval," let us roar at M. Thiers! Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found!
Any of our hunters will wade into a pond where there are fifty alligators, to drag out one they have shot; many of them will tackle, with nothing but a stick, any 'gator under six feet that they can catch on a prairie or asleep on a bank, and a few of the boys will wade bare-footed and bare-handed into a pond on the prairie and bring out little alligators. Johnny is a dabster at that.
The major was at first not a little surprised at the manner of his visitor; but being himself a dabster at great things, he soon recognized the quality of the new comer, and came forth to meet him in all his uniform, not even forgetting his three cornered hat, which he passed with his left hand while making an unexceptionable bow.
I had to find all this out that I'm telling you, but perhaps you don't care about it, and want to go back to the cricket-field?" "No, no," I cried; "I do like it." "That's right. If we went back we should only have to bowl for old Eely. Everybody has to bowl for him, and he thinks he's such a dabster with the bat, but he's a regular muff. Never carried the bat out in his life. Like hedgehogs?"
'Come, he said, 'I'll grind the coffee, and make it; I used to be a dabster at that dish when I was in college. Jennie, you set the table, and Ned will help; he's well enough for that, I know.
"Yes, I was a dabster at it when I was in the -th. We had no end of it, and we lads used to have a regular subscription round to buy new gloves. Oh yes, I gave lessons to the officers regularly. Long time since I've had the gloves on, but I could handle my fists as well as ever, I daresay." "Then you'll teach us?" "Teach you? No, no, my lads.
Like other charlatans, such men are glib talkers but it takes real ability and thorough training to prepare practical plans and specifications. Here is where the dabster betrays himself. A little independent investigation may prevent you from putting your building problems into the hands of such an incompetent man.
"You did me a good turn, all right," Tom said, with simple gratitude in his tone. "But I mean the big brother stuff," his companion said; "I'm not so much of a dabster at that. You're the one for that you're a scoutologist." "A what?" Tom said. "A scout specialist. One who has studied scoutology. You're the one to manage, what's-his-name, Peewee? And that other kid Ray " "Roy," Tom corrected him.
The oxen were particularly good, for their horns branched like those of the moose, and Mr. Grant had a patriarchal beard which waved in the breeze as he bore the wounded girl to a sled very like a funeral pyre, the stakes being crowned with big mittens like torches. "You ought to be an artist. I never saw such a dabster as you are.
I'll 'tend the office, make the beds, and keep the fires goin'. You you " He gazed at the Cap'n, faltering in his speech and fingering his nose apprehensively. "Well, me what?" snapped the ex-master of the Jefferson P. Benn. But his sparkling eyes showed that he realized what was coming. "You've allus been braggin'," gulped Hiram, "what a dabster you was at cookin', havin' been to sea and "
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