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To him he left the task of breaking the news to Elspeth; and Tommy, terrified lest she should swoon under it, was almost offended when she remained calm. But, alas, the reason was that she thought she was going with him. "Will we have to walk all the way to the Dubb of Prosen?" she asked, quite brightly, and at that Tommy twisted about in misery.
The thought of it made him feel quite hot; and he was so far forgetting himself as to be on the point of taking off his cap to cool his forehead, when Gyp caught his arm, and a murmur of horror ran through the assembly. 'Forbear! as you value your credit! cried Ruba. 'And your gentility! exclaimed Dubb. 'And your influence! called out Dubsix. 'And your success! shouted Menin.
I call you no names, you ken best what you're fitted for, but I've seen the farmer of the Dubb of Prosen the day, and he was short-handed through the loss of Tod Lindertis, so you're fee'd to him. Dinna think you get Tod's place, it'll be years afore you rise to that, but it's right and proper that as he steps up, you should step down." "The Dubb of Prosen!" cried Tommy in dismay.
'And your reputation! bawled Atub. 'It is against the first law of the Brotherhood, added Ruba. 'We all have headaches, asserted Dubb. 'We couldn't live without them, declared Dubsix. 'Would you commit suicide? demanded Menin. 'Be guilty of treason? hiccoughed Atub, who had swallowed some smoke the wrong way. 'Good gracious! was all that poor Yellow-cap was able to reply.
In one of the Socialist papers that Jimmie read, there appeared every week a series of comic pictures in which the working man was figured as a guileless fool by the name of "Henry Dubb". Poor Henry always believed what he was told, and at the end of each adventure he got a thump on the top of his nut which caused stars to sprout over the page.
The smaller girls of Monypenny were sitting in passages playing at fivey, just as Sappho for instance used to play it; but they heard the Dubb of Prosen cart draw up at Aaron Latta's door, and they followed it to see the last of Tommy Sandys.
And of the many adventures of Henry Dubb, the most absurd were when he got himself into a uniform. Jimmie would cut these pictures out and pass them round in the shop, and among his neighbours in the row of tenement-shacks where he lived. Nor did it make much difference in Jimmie's feelings when he read of German atrocities.
I recognise six of the portraits, but where is the seventh? He was the one whose face was the most ugly and disagreeable of all; but I don't see him here. 'He is here, said Ruba. Yellow-cap was going to ask, 'Where? but Gyp laid his hand upon his arm and whispered in his ear that he must not interrupt until the whole verse had run itself out. 'We have seen him, continued Dubb.
'Only for the sake of speaking out of metre, replied Dubb; at which the Brethren looked at one another and lifted their eyebrows. 'Well, at all events, said Gyp, recovering his good-humour, 'we want to get the King out and put the usurper in his place. 'Has anything been done to prepare the people for this change? inquired Yellow-cap. 'Are they on our side?
'Now, Brother Gyp, you may state the object of this meeting, said Yellow-cap, resuming his seat. Gyp bowed and pulled a roll of parchment out of Brother Dubsix's pocket, which was written all over with musical notes in the bass and treble clefs. 'The object is a twofold one, he began. 'I object to that expression, interrupted Dubb. 'Why? demanded Gyp in a mortified tone.
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