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"Yuh don't want to mind that bunch," he placated. "They mean all right, but they just can't help joshing a man to death." Andy accepted also a light for the cigarette, and smoked moodily. "It ain't their joshing," he explained after a minute "It's puzzling over what I can't understand that gets on my nerves. I can't see through the thing, Pink, no way I look at it."
When he joined the fellows, it was only to hear them joshing about some event wholly unintelligible to him. All their jokes and horse play led back to the classroom until at length he felt as if he might as well have listened to a lot of jibbering Chinese as to try to understand their nonsense. Yes, he was out of it completely out of it! Gradually the realization dawned on him.
The captain was joshing the prisoner about his poor shooting when Ramrod brought him into camp and they were dressing his wounds. "Well," said the fellow, "I tried to hard enough, but I couldn't find him. He's built like a ramrod." After breakfast was over we smoked and yarned.
"I certainly missed my guess as to that feller," he remarked to Doc Simpson and Hatch one day. "I had him sized up as a different sort of feller altogether. Why, up to a couple of weeks ago, he was as nice as pie to all of us, 'specially to me. He used to come over to my office and sit around for hours, chatting and smoking cigarettes and joshing like a good feller.
Owen had to laugh at this good-natured "joshing," but he allowed himself to be persuaded to accompany Hugh to the rear of the farmhouse. Here Thad soon secured a basin, and some warm water, as well as soap and a towel. The boys performed their ablusions, and in the end made quite a respectable appearance. "Why, both of you are all right," said Thad, gaily, after the job had been completed.
An imitation brass network, with a little arched opening, fenced her in. Along came the Earl, assured, delicate, accurate, admiring admiring greatly, and faced the open wicket. "You look chawming, you know 'pon my word you do my deah," he said, beguilingly. Miss McRamsey whirled around. "Cut that joshing out," she said, coolly and briskly. "Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please.
The last man who had your office you've taken sixty-six? well, he always got his matches here, and touched me occasionally for a pink photo of George Washington stamp, ha! ha! see! He was real nice and when his wife dropped in to see him one day and I was sitting in there joshing him and carrying on, he was that painfully embarrassed!
"We'd scoot up there now if it wasn't so late." "I've no doubt you'll find the place carpeted with zeros and hung with noughts and ciphers." I couldn't refrain from joshing her a little. She took it with a smile glanced across the room, looked a little surprised, and half rose with, "Why, there they are for me now."
Yet he had an awful reputation, and when he died it was generally stated privately that the last landmark of ignorance and superstition had been providentially removed. You know he had always been seeing things, but we set it down to his fondness for hard cider or his natural prepensity for joshing. With him gone there was no one left to report the doings of the sperrit-world.
Babbitt explained with frequency, "You couldn't hire me to join the Tonawanda, even if I did have a hundred and eighty bucks to throw away on the initiation fee. At the Outing we've got a bunch of real human fellows, and the finest lot of little women in town just as good at joshing as the men but at the Tonawanda there's nothing but these would-be's in New York get-ups, drinking tea!
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