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Updated: May 4, 2025
When men take to living in the wilderness, it's time to cast off all the humbuggin' politenesses o' civilised life." "Pardon me, Macnab," returned my friend, with more than his usual urbanity, "I differ from you there." "Oh, ay, I daresay ye do," interrupted the other. "It's been said of Scotsmen that `they can aye objec', and I think it's equally true of Englishmen that they can always differ!"
But when, upon my Port is seen A steamer's Starboard light of green, For me there's naught to do, but see That Green to Port keeps clear of me. "Come, now," he growled, "wot's your game? D'ye mean to say you've bin humbuggin' me all this time?" His little eyes glared redly from underneath his shaggy eyebrows. He was ready to sulk again, without hope of reconciliation, so Royson perforce explained.
"No at least not with her lips." "Come, boy, you're humbuggin' your old father. Her tongue couldn't well do it without the lips lendin' a hand." "Well then with neither," returned the son. "She spoke with her eyes not intentionally, of course, for the eyes, unlike the lips, refuse to be under control." "Hm! I see reef-point-patterin' poetics again! An' what did she say with her eyes?"
"No," said Tim very quickly and decidedly, "I can't leave the cart." "You don't trust the dog much, then. You've bin humbuggin' about him, I bet." "That I haven't," said Tim angrily, "I could trust him not to stir for hours." "I should just like to see yer," sneered the boy "I don't b'lieve yer dare leave 'im a minute. Well, I wouldn't keep a stupid cur like that!"
"'Lave off your humbuggin', says he, 'I bid you, and tell me what it is you mane at all at all. "'Parly voo frongsay? says I. "'Oh, your humble sarvant, says he; 'why, by gor, you're a scholar, Paddy. "'Thruth, you may say that, says I. "'Why, you're a clever fellow, Paddy, says the captain, jeerin' like. "'You're not the first that said that, says I, 'whether you joke or no.
"If it wasn't for what you call `humbuggin' religion," remarked Fink, looking Dick straight in the face, "it's little that we'd see o' comforters, or books, or mission ships on the North Sea. Why, d'ee think that selfishness, or greed, or miserliness, or indifference, or godlessness would ever take the trouble to send all them things to us?
"No at least not with her lips." "Come, boy, you're humbuggin' your old father. Her tongue couldn't well do it without the lips lendin' a hand." "Well then with neither," returned the son. "She spoke with her eyes not intentionally, of course, for the eyes, unlike the lips, refuse to be under control." "Hm! I see reef-point-patterin' poetics again! An' what did she say with her eyes!"
"It's no use humbuggin' about it. I'm swimmin' wi' the current. Goin' to the dogs like a runaway locomotive. Of course I see well enough that men like Sergeant Hardy, an' Stevenson of the Marines, who have been temperance men all their lives, enjoy good health would to God I was like 'em!
And it's only what you French gentry call a fashion de polly." "I am not French or only on my mother's side," replied the other gently. "Well, Frenchified then it's all the same, ain't it? all that bowin and scrapin and humbuggin business you know what I mean."
"There was a Tobaccy-Box about this house, or in this house. Do you know anything about it?" "A tobaccy-box is it?" "Ay, a tobaccy-box." "Well, an' what about it? What do you want wid it? An ould, rusty Tobaccy-box; musha, is that what's throublin' you this mornin'?" "Come," said he darkening, "I'll have no humbuggin' answer me at wanst. Do you know anything about it?"
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