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If their brows come well for'ard, and they seems to be lookin' at the ground they walk on, I knows their brains is firm stuff, and in good workin' order; but when I sees them carryin' their noses high out o' the water, as if they wos afeard o' catchin' sight o' their own feet, and their chins elewated so that a little boy standin' in front o' them couldn't see their faces nohow, I make pretty sure that t'other end is filled with a sort o' mush that's fit only to think o' dress and dancing."
After which he rubbed his fat legs as before, and jerking them at the knees to get the fire upon the yet unroasted parts, laughed as if somebody had tickled him. 'You're in spirits, Tugby, my dear, observed his wife. The firm was Tugby, late Chickenstalker. 'No, said Tugby. 'No. Not particular. I'm a little elewated. The muffins came so pat!
'Comrade, you might have noticed I was a little elewated in spirits when you come in to-night. I've found something. 'What have you found? asked Venus, clutching him with both hands, so that they stood interlocked like a couple of preposterous gladiators. 'There's no time to tell you now. I think he must have gone to look for it. We must have an eye upon him instantly.
We bore distinctly enough in remembrance, and longed then to have heard from the lips of the Reader in answer to the dream-wife's remark, "You're in spirits, Tugby, my dear!" Tugby's fat, gasping response, "No, No. Not particular. I'm a little elewated. The muffins came so pat!"
'It was only my joke, said the friend, abashed. 'George, rejoined Mr Kenwigs, 'a joke is a wery good thing a wery good thing but when that joke is made at the expense of Mrs Kenwigs's feelings, I set my face against it. A man in public life expects to be sneered at it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.
Tugby, in great terror. 'What's he doing? Mr. Tugby wiped his eyes, and faintly repeated that he found himself a little elewated. 'Then don't be so again, that's a dear good soul, said Mrs. Tugby, 'if you don't want to frighten me to death, with your struggling and fighting! Mr.
If their brows come well for'ard, and they seems to be lookin' at the ground they walk on, I knows their brains is firm stuff, and in good workin' order; but when I sees them carryin' their noses high out o' the water, as if they wos afeard o' catchin' sight o' their own feet, and their chins elewated, so that a little boy standin' in front o' them couldn't see their faces nohow, I make pretty sure that t'other end is filled with a sort o' mush that's fit only to think o' dress and dancing."
Tugby, that is, Chickenstalker, after thumping him violently on the back, and shaking him as if he were a bottle, was constrained to cry out, in great terror, "Good gracious, goodness, lord-a-mercy, bless and save the man! What's he a-doing?" To which all that Mr. Tugby can faintly reply, as he wipes his eyes, is, that he finds himself a little "elewated!"
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