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Updated: May 19, 2025
The greased pig was to be greasier; the barbecued ox was to be larger; the band was to be noisier; the speeches were to be longer and more tiresome; the firemen's races and the ball games, and the fat men's race, and the frog race, and the grand ball with its quadrilles and Virginia reels and "Hull's Victory" and "Lady Washington's Reel" and its "Portland Fancy," were all to be just a little superior to anything of the sort ever attempted in the state.
It afforded an area of greasy and dirty brown cuticle and of moose skin, if possible dirtier and greasier still. The two white men could not understand themselves. Was there witchcraft about; had they been drinking too much of the Scotch whisky in the stores? They forced their way outside and looked at the window again, and discovered that they were sane.
Splash, splash, splash, came three of the young ones; splash, splash, the mother and one of the cubs almost together. "Scoot" went the big male again, and the wet furslopping and rubbing on the long clay chute made it greasier and slipperier every time.
'Alas, the mother that him bare, if she had been in presence there, in his greased cheeks and greasier hair, she had not known her child." These words from Marmion, aptly altered to suit the occasion, Seth, who was not so green but that he knew pages of poetry by heart, repeated in a high-keyed, nasal sing-song, which set all the boys laughing.
"Let us build a true woodsmen's camp fire," I said; "and over it I shall broil for your delectation succulent slices of crisp bacon." Almost immediately a cheery fire was burning on the shore of the lake. From the stock of supplies I brought forth a strip of bacon, finding it much greasier than I had anticipated; I may say I had never before handled this product in its raw state.
A little blink of light came through a rabbit hole, at the end of which I saw a spray of gorse with the sunlight on it. I could see by the dim light that the chamber was built of unmortared stones, very cleverly laid. The floor of it was greasier than the passage had been, but still it was not damp.
"'Will you give me my manuscripts? I said again, anxious to put an end to the interview, and disgusted with the fellow's falsehood. "'Hallo! Mortimer, do you know where them are? "'Sorry I can't oblige you, said a fat man, dirtier and greasier than the first, emerging from an inner den; 'they're gone to press.
Licking the last morsel of the delicious fish from his greasy finger-ends, and wiping his greasier mouth on his sleeve, Jerry jumped to his feet and announced: "I'm ready, Phil, if you are." "I've been ready for a quarter of an hour just waiting for the skillet to be empty, because I knew you'd never stir so long as there was a crumb left. Where do you put it all?"
They keep aloof from the greasier sisters of the profession, and they feel it due to the dignity of their station to reject the cards, the magic mirrors, the Bibles and keys, the mysterious pebbles and the other tricks which do well enough for twenty-five cent customers; to sojourn in reputable streets, in respectable houses, and to have clean faces when visitors come in.
The same endless procession of bleached hills still filed past under the mist, going now in the opposite direction, and the same interminable game of whist was played in the smoking-room, only with greasier, second-class cards, amidst the acrid smoke of second-class tobacco.
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