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He was just a dunderhead, like any one of us just as much as the most eminent feminine psychologist alive which is saying a good deal. So he drove away disappointed, the sobriety of the chestnut's return trot through Morebury contrasting oddly with the dashing clatter of the former journey.
But to the honor of our fishermen it may be said that such blunders in plain navigation have been exceedingly rare, and as much owing to a free circulation of the fiery liquid, which addles men's brains, as to sheer ignorance. Many years ago a schooner sailed from Gloucester bound to the Grand Bank, in charge of a thick dunderhead of a skipper, and a crew of about equal mental calibre.
But his sentiments, whatever they may have been, disappeared in the burst of inspiration he had been waiting for so long. 'We can go through the whole list of heads, he exclaimed triumphantly. 'Fat head, fine head, broad head, thick head, massive head yes, massive head. The Baillie will appear pleased at that, and will repeat the phrase, and then she will say "Dunderhead!"
And having thus incoherently exclaimed for a little, the light in his eyes growing merrier all the time, he most unaccountably worked himself into a great rage: whereby I knew that the little Jutts were in some way to be mightily amused. "The lazy rascal!" he shouted, jumping out of his chair, and beginning to stamp the room, frowning terribly. "The fat, idle, blundering dunderhead!
"Jest you wait, younker, till you've stood on a toppling deck in the teeth of a nor'easter, with some dunderhead of a captain roaring cuss words at you to cut away the mast that you know is all that's keeping you out of Davy Jones' Locker, and then you'll find what obeying orders means. But if you want the job here, it's yours. What will you take?" "My board and keep," answered Dan.
"'Cook, you dunderhead! says the skipper, with a wink t' the crew. 'You been an' scarched the water agin. "Shoos he looked like he'd give up for good on the spot just like he knowed he was a fool, an' had knowed it for a long, long time, sort o' like he was sorry for we an' sick of hisself. "'Cook, says the skipper, 'you went an' done it agin. Yes, you did! Don't you go denyin' of it.
Besides, I've got these other fifteen vessels chartered; I'll have to have capital and I've got to have it quickly or I'll be a pauper while you'd be saying Jack Robinson." "But, Matt, you old dunderhead, you mustn't sell a good thing. Why, man, you've got a million and a half profit right in the hollow of your hand; and, oh, we mustn't let it get away, Matt we mustn't let it get away!
I've the warrant in my pocket. Then how are we to hide the boy, or keep any silence on what has happened here to-night?" "Ye dunderhead!" Miss Belcher stamped her foot. "What in the name of fortune have we to do with the murder? If Hodgson catches him, he'll be charged with forging the Bishop of Exeter's licence: that's to say with a crime he's already confessed to you.
"Donner und blitzen, you Grasshobber, you my neck brek yet, I dink," roared Schmidt, gazing at the disaster. "Vos iss los mit you, any vay, you bad Grasshobber. Himmel! dot propeller almost takes my nose off. Aber nicht, I am a dunderhead. I forget to turn der switch; dot's vy I can't stob der Grasshobber ven she hobs avay."
Never an Afridi spake his own tongue better!" "Yet does a Hillman slip? Would a Hillman use Punjabi words in a careless moment?" "God forbid!" "Therefore, thou dunderhead, I will be a Rangar Rajput, a stranger in a strange land, traveling by her favor to visit her in Khinjan!
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