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"Alas!" exclaimed Jamrach, weeping and bewailing the loss of all his possessions, paid out in tips and tolls; "I will go back with you." "I don't think you will,", said the Ferryman, pushing off; "this city is situated on the Island of the Unreturning." The Party Over There A Man in a Hurry, whose watch was at his lawyer's, asked a Grave Person the time of day.
"It has long been my wish to give you a new kind of present, but I have hitherto had no luck. I thought once of an elephant, and even wrote to Jamrach about the idea a small elephant, not a mountain -but I gave that up. Chiswick is too crowded, and your garden is too small. But now I think I have found the very thing. A caravan.
It would look so well on the programmes, 'Wolves in the first act, by Jamrach. And old Lady Whortleberry, who never misses a first night, would scream. She's always been nervous since she lost her first husband. He died quite abruptly while watching a county cricket match; two and a half inches of rain had fallen for seven runs, and it was supposed that the excitement killed him.
I have offered it to the London jewellers, but they will only give me the market-price of the stones and the gold. While he was talking I pulled out of my breast pocket the cross, which had remained there since I received it from my mother the evening before. 'They are very much alike, said Jamrach; 'but the setting of these stones is more extraordinary than in mine.
Jamrach, who called my attention to some armadillos, huge armour-plated animals, very curious, but somehow not attractive as pets; one could not fondle a thing composed of metal plates, shaped like a pig, with a tendency to roll itself up into a ball on the slightest provocation, and even Mr.
It was growing late when Jamrach came to the margin of what appeared to be a lake of black ink, and there the road terminated. Seeing a Ferryman in his boat he paid something for his passage and was about to embark. "No," said the Ferryman. "Put your neck in this noose, and I will tow you over. It is the only way," he added, seeing that the passenger was about to complain of the accommodations.
Jamrach had contracted to deliver to Barnum in New York 18 elephants for $360,000 in time for the next season's opening. Then it occurred to Mr. Barnum that he needed a "card" He suggested Jumbo. Jamrach said he would have to think of something else Jumbo couldn't be had; the Zoo wouldn't part with that elephant. Barnum said he was willing to pay a fortune for Jumbo if he could get him.
I thought of this saying while on my way to visit the well-known place near the London Docks where Mr. Jamrach is supposed to keep almost every rare animal, bird, and reptile, ready to supply the wants of all customers at a moment's notice.
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