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Updated: May 12, 2025
Captain Puffin stood for a moment wreathed in smiles, and fingering the slice of lemon, which he had meant playfully to throw at his friend. He walked in dots and dashes like a Morse code out of the room, bestowing a naval salute on the Major as he passed. The latter returned it with a military salute and a suppressed hiccup. Not a word passed.
One should salute a gentleman in yawning, salute him in hiccuping, salute him in sneezing, salute him in coughing, and that evidently because of your interest in his health; for he may dislocate his jaw in yawning, and the hiccup is often a symptom of grave disorder, and sneezing is perilous to the small blood-vessels of the head, and coughing is either a tracheal, bronchial, pulmonary, or ganglionic affection."
The Crimea, the dreadful winter, the punishment administered to their common enemy, occupied him exclusively. But with the fourth bottle he became more communicative. "You owe a long candle to your saint for your luck to-day in meeting me," he said, with a slight hiccup. "Ah! how so?" "Had not I been there to give you protection you would now be under lock and key in the depôt of the Prefecture."
The good Captain, who was now somewhat encumbered with his good cheer, began to find the undoing of the clasps of his armour a task somewhat difficult, and addressed Anderson in these words, interrupted by a slight hiccup, "Anderson, my good friend, you may read in Scripture, that he that putteth off his armour should not boast himself like he that putteth it on I believe that is not the right word of command; but the plain truth of it is, I am like to sleep in my corslet, like many an honest fellow that never waked again, unless you unloose this buckle."
"You un stand with half a word and I enjoy a conservation conserva singular thing I can't say conservashun. I enjoy a talk an intellectshul chat more with you than sitting down to wine with Jeffershon and Harvey, and your dear father. Good fellarsh jolly good fellarsh only too fond of sitting over wine. Shocking habit shpending hours in getting tipshy hiccup!" Now, while Mr.
“Indeed! why it was I who told Aristotle that, by sneezing, men expelled superfluous ideas through the proboscis.” “Which is hiccup! undoubtedly the case,” said the metaphysician, while he poured out for himself another bumper of Mousseaux, and offering his snuff-box to the fingers of his visitor.
"Then I have the honour to be seated with a bard of Anglesey?" said I, addressing the man in grey. "Tut, tut," said he of the grey suit. "The greatest prydydd in the whole world," iterated he of the bulged shoe, with a slight hiccup, as he again filled his glass. "Then," said I, "I am truly fortunate."
Then Father Tom held the coal himself till his Holiness had the pipe lit; and they sat widout saying anything worth mentioning for about five minutes. At last the Pope says to his Riv'rence, "I dunna what gev me this plaguy hiccup," says he. "Dhrink about," says he "Begorra," he says, "I think I'm getting merrier'an's good for me. Sing us a song, your Riv'rence," says he.
As for the Strange Things, the reader will be relieved to hear that they were no stranger than might have been expected, and he may find things quite as strange without the expense of a Van Tromp for guide. Yet he was a guide of no mean order, who made up for the poverty of what he had to show by a copious, imaginative commentary. "And such," said he, with an hiccup, "such is Paris."
'Ladies, says he, 'what can I do f'r ye? he says. 'Ye must save th' ar-rmy fr'm th' malt that biteth like a wasp an' stingeth like an adder, says they. 'Ye bet ye'er life I will, ladies, says th' Congressman with a slight hiccup. 'I will do as ye desire. A sojer that will dhrink beer is a disgrace to th' American jag, he says. 'We abolished public dhrinkin' in th' capitol, he says.
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