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Updated: May 16, 2025
Where d'ye get it make it up?" "Lord, no," laughed the other. "If I could do that I wouldn't be pan-handling. A guy by the name of Henry Herbert Knibbs did them. Great, ain't they?" "They sure is. They get me right where I live," and then, after a pause; "sure you got enough fer two, bo?" "I have enough for you, old top," replied the host, "even if I only had half as much as I have.
"I think she ought to have told him the true state of things or else refused him I don't know," replied Tess, the bread-and-butter choking her. "Be cust if I'd have done either o't," said Beck Knibbs, a married helper from one of the cottages. "All's fair in love and war.
E. G. Ravenstein, some years ago, when the population of the earth was estimated at 1400 million, foretold that about the middle of this century population would have reached a limit beyond which increase would be disastrous. Mr. Knibbs is not so pessimistic and is much more precise; though he defers the disastrous culmination, he has no doubt as to its inevitability.
"Knibbs writes man-verse. I shouldn't have imagined that it would appeal to a young lady." "But it does, though," she replied; "at least to me. There's a swing to it and a freedom that 'gets me in the eye." Again she laughed, and when this girl laughed, harder-headed and much older men than Mr. L. Bridge felt strange emotions move within their breasts.
I think none the less of you because you can't quote Browning or Shakespeare the thing that counts is that you can appreciate, as I do, Service and Kipling and Knibbs. "Now maybe we are both wrong maybe Knibbs and Kipling and Service didn't write poetry, and some people will say as much; but whatever it is it gets you and me in the same way, and so in this respect we are equals.
When the verse was completed he reached forth his hand and took the tin can in his strong fingers, raising it before his face. "Here's to to his Knibbs!" he said, and drank, passing the battered thing over to his new friend. "Yes," said the other; "here's to his Knibbs, and Penelope!" "Drink hearty," returned Billy Byrne.
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