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"You took me out of a ticklish situation tonight. I don't want any mere policemen to spoil my little game. Please oil up your forgettery with these, and then forget!" "Say, gov'nor," retorted the driver, as he put the money into the band of his leather cap. "I ain't seen so much real change since my boss got stung on the war.
We need schools of memory, but we need schools of forgettery, even more. As you go on south and bless your valley, do you notice the valley does not bless you very much? Have you sadly noted that the people you help the most often are the least grateful in return? Don't wait to be thanked. Hurry on to avoid the kick!
At least, I know him by sight." The man who had called himself Diller grew wary. "It's a common enough name." "Yes. If I find you work at my father's ranch would you be too particular about what it is?" "Try me." "And your memory is it inconveniently good?" Her glance swept as by chance over the scene of her recent operations. "I've got a right good forgettery, too," he assured her.
"Dunno 'bout his memory," grunted Wash; "he's gotter good forgettery, suah 'nuff. Leastways, when he starts off on one o' dese perambulationaries ob his, he fergits ter come back." "Let's see," said Jack, nudging his chum, "what is that longitudinous' name which has been hitched onto that wonderful bird, Wash?
He may have, at the start, instead of a fine memory, what a learned professor called, "a fine forgettery," but let him persevere to the end. None of us were made to sit down in despair because we are not endowed with an all-embracing memory, or because we cannot "speak with the tongues of men and of angels," and do not know "all mysteries and all knowledge."
"I never put anything on paper you're the man that does that and if the Interstate Commerce people should break in, I'd have the best little forgettery of any clock-watcher in the works. Nix for me, Weyburn; you are the chap with the figures, and the only man in the shop who has them down in black on white.
But his voice quavered a little for a moment as he added: "You're good at forgetting?" "Possessor of the best forgettery you ever saw," responded Bulger. Forthwith, they turned to speech of the railroad rate bill. When, after a mufti dinner at the club, Bulger reached his bachelor apartments, he found a telegram.
Makes my mouth water just to think of havin' some books of my own. All I read is borrowed, and I have to hide 'em under the mattress to keep the children from gettin' 'em dirty. I thank you hearty, Mr. John; I certainly do." John Maxwell took a note-book and pencil out of his pocket. "I've a good forgettery and if I don't put that down you'd have to write, perhaps. How about Mr. McDougal?
I know it begins with the discovery of America and wanders down through the ages to the present day; but a part of it has slipped my memory or, perhaps I should say, 'forgettery'." With a perfectly serious face the darkey declaimed: "Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci George Washington Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant Garibaldi Thomas Edison Guglielmo Marconi Butts." "For goodness sake!
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