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"Exactly twelve, your Majesty," answered Jinks with a low bow, "and I beg to announce that we are at this moment on the brink of the thirteenth baker's dozen, your Majesty." "Oh, it's the baker this time, is it?" asked the Queen with a sigh. "What's the matter with him, Jinks?" "Same old trouble, your Majesty. Your court, those doll ladies in particular, have become so haughty "
'But next night about half-past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roost on the stabboard side. There warn't no more high jinks. Everybody got solemn; nobody talked; you couldn't get anybody to do anything but set around moody and look at the bar'l. It begun to cloud up again.
"But there's bound to be," said his friend, a regular "Job's comforter" for the nonce. "Look here, Henry; you'd have me give up too easy. 'Never say die! That's the farmer's motto." "Jinks!" exclaimed young Pollock, "they're dying all around us just the same and their crops, too. We ain't going to have half a corn crop if this spell of dry weather keeps on.
"Oh, then, of course, you must make my bed, and bring water for me, and keep my equipments clean. If there's anything else, I'll tell you. If you don't do everything I tell you, I'll report it to the class committee and you'll have to fight, do you understand?" "Yes, sir." "That will do, Jinks; you may go." "I beg your pardon, sir. May I ask you a question?" "What?" shouted Smith.
Jinks smiled again rather more feebly than before and edged himself, by degrees, back into his own corner. Mr. Nupkins debated the matter within himself for a few seconds, and then, rising from his chair, and requesting Mr. Pickwick and Sam to follow him, led the way into a small room which opened into the justice-parlour. Desiring Mr.
One night as Sam lay in his tent dreaming that he had just won the battle of Waterloo, he heard a voice close to his ears. "Jinks!" "Yes, sir." "Here is an order for you to report at once up in the woods at old Fort Hut. The password is 'Old Gory'; say that, and the sentinel will let you out of camp. Go along and report to the colonel at once." "What is it?" cried Sam. "Is it an attack?"
Jinks' rage, and he replied: "This momentary anger is over, sir I forgive, that young man Sallianna! beautiful Sallianna! for thy sake!" But overcome with nerves, and the revulsion produced by this change in affairs, the beautiful Sallianna's head drooped upon one shoulder, her eyes were closed, and her arms were extended towards Mr. Jinks.
As for moving-picture men and newspaper correspondents, Jinks and Blinks hanged them on every tree in Belgium and Poland. With combatants in this frame of mind the war I suppose might have lasted forever. But it came to an end accidentally, fortuitously, as all great wars are apt to. And by accident also, I happened to see the end of it. It was late one evening.
She reached that city before him and was present at the station when he arrived, altho he did not know it, and from a good point of vantage she saw him kissing the young ladies of that city by wholesale to an accompaniment of "Captain Jinks."
"Yep." Billie nodded oat of the window, towards Kemp Hall, the boys' dormitory. "After we found out that you didn't live here, we were going on down to the Dean's to find you, but he looked over the boys' freshman class, and found he had a cousin or nephew or somebody on the list, Clayton Diggs." "I know him," Kit exclaimed. "He's High Jinks' cousin.
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