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"I heard you were," she admitted. "I thought it was yore oldest sister's pony," he bumbled on, feeling it incumbent upon him to say something. "They told me something about an old lady." "Jane Morgan's the only other sister I have. Who told you this wild tale?" "Them," was his vague reply. He was not the man to give away the jokers of Farewell. Old lady, indeed!
The Jews paid little attention to Wagner's arguments, but objected to his "personalities." Now, the reader must have observed that of all people practical jokers are those who can least tolerate a practical joke played at their own expense, and that those whose staple of conversation is banter or "chaff" become irascible the moment they are flicked with their own whip.
If you give him aces, have the jokers handy for when you want 'em. Them's duplicates. Duplicates 's Sherman's great lay learned it from his old side-partner, Unconditional Surrender Grant just as strategy was old McClellan's. There's this difference: Sherman always stacks the deck to win himself, while McClellan used to shuffle the cards for the other feller to win."
The recruiting regulations, just then, allowed transfers to the gunboat service of soldiers who had any experience even in inland navigation, and the impulse to change had made the subject a "burning question," even while we were in the West The inveterate practical jokers now had their opportunity, and a man leaning uneasily over the lee rail was sure to be offered the chance to enlist in the navy, with glowing eulogies of its superior comfort compared with marching in the mud.
Cynical people profess to believe that practical jokers are at the root of the manifestations, but such a profane view is not widely entertained among the good people who have their homes at Stony Creek. Over near Middletown is a farmer named Edgar G. Stokes, a gentleman who is said to have graduated with honor in a New England college more than a quarter of a century ago.
The text in question is a treatise on poetics illustrating how romantic situations should best be treated in Sanskrit poetry the conduct of mature mistresses, experienced lovers, sly go-betweens, clowns or jokers being all subjected to analysis. The subject of the text is secular romantic poetry and Krishna himself is never mentioned.
Farwell." "I suppose so," he admitted. "Yes, I guess I do. I can't help it. I'm no joker; no time for that. Jokers don't get anywhere. Never saw one that did. It's the fellow who keeps thinking about his job and banging away at it who gets there." "The inference being that I won't get anywhere." Farwell, puzzled momentarily, endeavoured to remember what he had said. "I guess I made another break.
"That is right I am glad to hear you speak so hopefully," said the Colonel. "All will be right, no doubt, when you get well." Did he or did he not lay a peculiar stress on the two words, as the old jokers used to do on a few others when they informed the boys that the statue of St. Paul, in the niche in the front of St.
Och, but wait till we're aboord the Active, Tom, an', sure, we'll hev no more of straight-backed jokers loike him to dale with!" "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched, Mick," said I. "We're not appointed to her yet."
The jokers will sing a different tune to-morrow! Follow me!" He took a lighted candle and strode down into the vast vaulted basement where sixty detectives always slept, and where a score were now playing cards to while the time. I followed close after him.
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