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Updated: June 11, 2025
Tam o' Shanter, his greatest poem, keeps the reader smiling or laughing from beginning to end. When the Scottish Muse proudly placed on his brow the holly wreath, she happily emphasized two of his conspicuous qualities, his love and mirth, when she said: "I saw thee eye the gen'ral mirth With boundless love." Burns is one of the great masters of lyrical verse. He preferred that form.
'Whoever stole the thing is right here in this boardin'-house, and it's up to us to see that they stay here. Barzilla, you take care of the mail. No letters must go out to-night. Jonadab, you set up and watch all hands, help and all. Nobody must leave this place, if we have to tie em. And I'll keep a gen'ral overseein' of the whole thing, till we get a detective.
Harum continued, "was a putty decent kind of a chap. He come up after I'd got into my togs an' pulled me here, an' pulled me there, an' fixed my necktie, an' hitched me in gen'ral so'st I wa'n't neither too tight nor too free, an' when he got through, 'You'll do now, sir, he says. "'Think I will? says I.
"Well, then, what is your business, here?" "Go to Chicago, for gen'ral." "Do you mean that you bear a message from some American general to the commandant at Chicago?" "Just so dat my business. Guess him, right off; he, he, he!" It is so seldom that an Indian laughs that the bee-hunter was startled. "Where is the general who has sent you on this errand?" he demanded.
I determines to cast the opprobrium on some other boy an' send the hunt of gen'ral indignation sweepin' along his trail. "'Thar's a innocent infant who's a stoodent at this temple of childish learnin' an' his name is Riley Bark. This Riley is one of them giant children who's only twelve an' weighs three hundred pounds.
Carl announced to one poplar stick, "I could lick you! I'm a gen'ral, I am." The stick made no reply whatever, and he contemptuously shied it out into the chickweed which matted the grubby back yard. This necessitated his sneaking out and capturing it by stalking it from the rear, lest it rouse the Popple Army.
As a gen'ral rule this interest money is never earned for the fust two years, and the money to pay it with is inva'ably stolen from the principal. All this dishonesty I avoid, suh, by the issue of my Deferred Debenture Bonds." "How?" I asked, seeing the colonel pause for a reply. "By cuttin' off the fust fo' coupons. Then everybody knows exactly where they stand.
They know well that the fetchin' in of water is women's and children's work, and they know well that we'll likely to be needin' that same water. For us men to go out after it would raise suspicion. It would mean sartin death for us and a gen'ral attack before the reinforcements come. If you women go as usual, they'll not harm you.
"No, no; I don't want to hear go downstairs and keep quiet, do." "Oh, yer'll be in such a steaming rage! She burnt yer book, yer Jane Eyre as yer wor reading lor, it were fine the bit as you read to the Gen'ral and me, but she said as it wor a hell-fire book, and she burnt it I seed her, and so did the Gen'ral she pushed it between the bars with the poker.
"'The outfit is one of them little old jim-crow shows that charges two-bits an' stays a month; an' by the end of the first day, me an' the clown gets wropped up like brothers; which I'm like one of the fam'iy! I fetches water an' he'ps rub hosses an', speakin' gen'ral, does more nigger work than I ever crosses up with prior endoorin' my entire life.
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