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Do you really think that you've got anybody about you who can paint anything worth having " "Oh! oh! Hear the high-cockalorum! Oh! oh!" The sheep-painter raised his hand to command silence. "Do I think we've got anybody about here who can paint? you fog-headed noodle from Piccadilly?

Like so many of his fellows cultured moderns, alien to the larger forms of patriotism, that rich liquor brewed of maps and figures, commercial profit, and high-cockalorum, which served so perfectly to swell smaller heads Felix had a love of his native land resembling love for a woman, a kind of sensuous chivalry, a passion based on her charm, on her tranquillity, on the power she had to draw him into her embrace, to make him feel that he had come from her, from her alone, and into her alone was going back.

But I believe that I am right in allowing him lines suitable to the strong and tragic situation into which he falls." "Tragic, my eye!" said my friend, irreverently. "In Shakespeare's day he might have sputtered out some high-cockalorum nonsense of that sort, because in those days they ordered ham and eggs in blank verse and discharged the cook with an epic.

And he put on such high-cockalorum airs that I, bein' as soft as mush around the heart, jest wilted and agreed to give him everything he bargained for if he would promise not to hinder. But he wasn't satisfied with that and wouldn't come to no terms until I'd give him my Centennial pipe, what's been like a child to me this many a year.