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He took from his pocket the fateful letter and glanced at its endorsement, and, as he did so, Levin heard an exclamation in the yard from a man who had received the whole of the apple brandy and sugar in his face, and was furious; but as soon as he seemed to recognize the thrower he muttered, apologetically: "Hokey-pokey! By smoke! and Pangymonum, too!"
"I was around the house a good deal before sailing, and one day I caught him in the library reading it." They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.
The chief actors in the affair appeared to be a young policeman, the owner of the hokey-pokey barrow, and an old man. It speedily grew into one of those episodes which, occurring on the outskirts of some episode immensely greater, draw too much attention to themselves and thereby outrage the sense of proportion residing in most plain men, and especially in most policemen.
"We'll put it at hokey-pokey, nothin' a lump, if you don't mind, sonny," the boatswain went on; "in a nice airy parlour painted white, with a gilt chandelier an' gilt combings to the wainscot." The whole crew listened admiringly, and it seemed they were all in the stupid conspiracy. I resolved, for Johnny's sake, to protest, and that very evening drew Gibbings aside and expostulated with him.
"Three men, one old woman, and some little things, makes the present contents of Pangymonum," spoke up a rough, cheery voice, "an', by smoke! it's jess enough." "Is it the white man that talks?" "He says he's white, but they think it's goin' to be easy hokey-pokey to pass him off for a nigger." Her eyes soon recognized the speaker as he said, "By smoke! miss, you're not much like a Johnson.
"I heard Patty Cannon mutter that she was going to set her black man free to kidnap for her. Hark! I must fly." Hulda descended the ladder in time to surprise Cy James coming up. He bent his goose neck down as he leaned his hands upon his knees, and, looking up into her face, ejaculated, "Hokey-pokey! By smoke! And Pangymonum, too."
His hand was clutching the a-stern plank of the old scow, and was so stiff he could not for some time open it. The scow was aground upon a marshy shore, in which some large trees grew, and were the fringes of a woods that deepened farther back. "By smoke!" muttered Jimmy, "if yer ain't hokey-pokey. But I reckon I ain't dead, nohow."
"Pangymonum, too!" hissed Cy James, with every animation. "Hokey-pokey, three! an' By smoke, one!" He put his long arms on his knees, and bent down like a great goose, and stared into Levin's eyes. "I never had sense enough," Levin said, "to guess a riddle, Cy Jeems. Them words I have hearn a good man my mother's friend use so often that they scare me.
I said something reassuring, something about the percentage of recovery I believe, for I was exceedingly busy with Duck’s anatomy. "Pull me through, Doc?" he inquired calmly. "Sure...." "Aw, listen, Doc. Don’t hand me no cones of hokey-pokey. Gimme a deck of the stuff. Dope out the coke. Do I get mine this trip?" I looked at him, hesitating. "Listen, Doc, am I hurted bad? Gimme a hones’ deal.
"I was around the house a good deal before sailing, and one day I caught him in the library reading it." They both laughed, feeling like mischievous children who had played a successful trick on the hokey-pokey man.
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