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"'An' there'll be no monkeyin', Governor; you'll take me down to a bank yourself an' put the money in my hand? "'I promise you that, I assured him. "But he was not entirely quiet in his mind about it. He shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, and his soft rubber nose worked. "'Now, Governor, he said, 'I'm leery about jokers I gotta be. I don't want any string to this money.
My friend , an artist of repute, explained that it all depends on the point of view. "Our people are essentially artistic," he said. "There is nothing more beautiful than the divine female contour; the American women realize this, and sacrifice themselves at the altar of art." Yet the Americans are such jokers that exactly what my friend had in mind it was difficult to arrive at.
You may smile when you read their jokes, but when you see the jokers you are more inclined to weep. With pain and sorrow they grind, like Samson, at the jokers' mill all the days of their lives. The meeting was held in the new two-storey school-house. Deacon Beaumont took the chair my chair and Mr Curtis was appointed secretary. I began to hate Deacon Beaumont, as also Mr.
"I shall have to pass the word to our worst jokers," he smiled, "that it won't be safe for the fellow who starts in to tease you young men." "Why, if anyone does start, we've got to keep our tongues behind our teeth," returned Hal. "We're only boys kids and we can't say anything smart to men who have been a good many years in the service."
"It was a grubstake, that's all I knew, giving him half of what I staked in exchange for what I could eat; but it turned out afterwards it was like these fire insurance policies, where a man never reads the fine print. There was more jokers in that contract than in a tinhorn gambler's deck of cards he had me peoned for life and after I'd given him half my strike he came out and claimed it all.
"Of course I don't believe in ghosts," she said, "but what do you suppose that is?" "I had a theory," I said, "that it is the work of a lunatic, but I've since concluded it is due to practical jokers. I'll tell you what I'll do. If you wait here, I'll investigate and see what I can find out for you." "Oh, would you really dare, Mr. Wade? I don't believe men ever have creepy nerves," she exclaimed.
"She'll be affronted oh, cuss the word! Just fancy it, to-morrow morning, when she opens her post! A nice pair of jokers she'll think us!" Cai paced the room. "Couldn't we go up to-night and explain?" "Five minutes to ten," said 'Bias with a glance at the clock. "Ask her to get out o' bed and come down to hear we've made fools of ourselves? I don't see myself. You can do what you like, o' course."
It happened one dark night that a little push of local larrikins, having nothing better to amuse them, wended their way through the old mullock heaps in the direction of the lonely little bark hut, with the object of playing off an elaborately planned ghost joke on Bogg. Prior to commencing operations, the leader of the jokers put his eye to a crack in the bark to reconnoitre.
When the wittol heard himself thus vilified, he lifted up his head and exclaimed, "I wish, you scoundrel, I were alive now, as I am dead, and I would prove thee a false liar to thy face;" upon which the jokers burst into laughter, set down the "body" and ran away leaving Nigniaca to explain the whole affair to the marvelling multitude.
The jokers dubbed it "Health-Exterminator," but almost all Welby took it, they must take something in the spring, and the little doctor, who had a soul far above thoughts of sordid gain, never expected to be paid for it, which made it very popular.
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