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What gets me how a beautiful girl like she is could ever take a second look at me." The judge regarded him sharply, with a new attention to the hidden eyes. "Say, are you blind?" he asked. "Blind as a bat! Can't see my hand before my face." The horrified judge stalked to the door. "You hear that?" he called in, but only the parrot heeded him. "Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle!" it screeched.
But when an imported greenhorn dares to call his flapdoodle mixture 'Californian, it is an insult to the State that has produced the gifted 'Yellow Hammer, whose lofty flights have from time to time dazzled our readers in the columns of the 'Jay Hawk. That this complacent editorial jackass, browsing among the dock and thistles which he has served up in this volume, should make no allusion to California's greatest bard, is rather a confession of his idiocy than a slur upon the genius of our esteemed contributor."
And these flapdoodle drinks that you inoculate your system with these little essences of cowslip with acorns in 'em, and paregoric flip they ain't anyways in assent with the cordiality of manhood. I hate to see you this way." "Well, Mr. Greenbrier," said Merritt, with apology in his tone, "in a way you are right. Sometimes I do feel like I was being raised on the bottle.
I never see anything so disgusting. Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sympathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sickening; and then he blubbers out a pious goody-goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to crying fit to bust.
Seems to me if I'd been off skyhootin' round in foreign lands say, how about them French women? Pretty bold lot, I guess, if you can believe all you " The parrot in its cage at the end of the porch climbed to a perch with beak and claw. "Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle, Flapdoodle!" it screeched. The judge glared murderously at it. "Wilbur Cowan, you bad, bad, bad child not to let us know!" Mrs.
They'll make him a poet, perhaps, but not a cricketer." "Don't talk such flapdoodle!" grumbled Chappy. "Look at that!" All that Doe did then was to direct the ball with perfect ease between Point and Short Slip and to glance quickly towards the pavilion to see if the stroke had been noticed.
"That old girl back there, that old maid, she'll have to small-town it all her life. I feel sorry for her, I do." "Yes, sir." But the sorrowing father now began to whistle cheerfully. His grief had not overborne him. A man who would call Judge Penniman Old Flapdoodle and question the worth of Matthew Arnold's acquaintance was not to be long downcast at the plight of one woman.
All that flapdoodle," he struck the papers, "didn't mean nothing to me when I thought it came from your amatoore detectives. But if Baker has this case looked up there's something to it. Go slow, son." He studied a moment. "Have you told your officers of your own evidence against Baker?" "Not yet." "Or about these?" he held up the papers. "No." "Well, that's all right. Don't." "It's my duty "
"I was thinking," he began in apologetic explanation, "how mighty queer it was that while we were working like niggers on grub wages, without the ghost of a chance of making a strike, how we used to sit here, night after night, and flapdoodle and speculate about what we'd do if we ever DID make one; and now, Great Scott! that we HAVE made it, and are just wallowing in gold, here we are sitting as glum and silent as if we'd had a washout!
That's why he is always in such a hurry to finish his first little deal and get on with the next one. Else he'd starve. Hence honesty. Three and a half per cent! Who's going to pick that up? People who earn three hundred don't cackle about honesty." "Call yourself a gentleman? Outside!" "I've no use for honesty. It's the small man's flapdoodle, is honesty. This world isn't made for small men!