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Updated: May 26, 2025
Wot's the matter? "'Touch-touch of ague; I get it sometimes, ses Uncle Dick. "'I want to see this man Finch, ses 'Arry, shaking 'is knobby stick. 'Muffit, my name is, and I want to tell 'im so. "Uncle Dick nearly shook 'imself on to the floor. "'I I'll go and see if 'e's in the fo'c'sle, he ses at last.
A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour. I do not know how else to make one understand how small it is. The appearance of the city is peculiar. It is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads.
The stockings bulged most delightfully in the dining-room when they trooped down to breakfast on Christmas morning. Tess and Dot could scarcely eat, their eyes were so fixed upon the delightfully knobby bundles piled under each of their stockings on the hearth.
And you can laugh or buy, it's all one to me." To show his indifference he drummed with his knobby knuckles on the table and stared at the coffee-pot. A minute later he began to hum a monotonous "Tra-la-loo, tra-la-lee, tra-la-lee, tra-la-loo." "Now look here, Mr. Sanderson," said Smoke. "This town-site isn't worth ten thousand.
And on a morning soft and sweet, with a hint of rain in the air, they rode down in the farm wagon to the south field together Paw and Maw and Luke with big Tom walking beside the aged knobby horse's head. Abel Gazzam, a neighbor, had seen to the grave; and in due course the little cavalcade reached the appointed spot inside the snake fence a quiet place in a corner, under a graybeard elm.
But the Crocodile only said, "Good evening, Sister," very politely, and passing her by with a wag of his enormous tail sank with a plop into the waters of the Congo. And ever since that time the Hen has eaten her dinner in tranquil peace, undisturbed by the sight of floating log or basking shape of knobby green. For she knows that old Hungry-Mouth will not eat his Sister, the Hen.
But the crowning joke of all was Tom's good-by, for, when Polly was fairly settled in the car, the last "All aboard!" uttered, and the train in motion, Tom suddenly produced a knobby little bundle, and thrusting it in at the window, while he hung on in some breakneck fashion, said, with a droll mixture of fun and feeling in his face, "It 's horrid; but you wanted it, so I put it in to make you laugh.
Oppressed by hunger, I swallowed the bones and the feet of the pigeon, to allay the cravings of my stomach. A sleeping lizard with a blunt tail and knobby scales, fell into our hands, and was of course roasted and greedily eaten. Brown now complained of increased pain in his feet, and lost all courage. "We are lost, we are lost," was all he could say.
Running so, with his back turned, his body had a swing like Jack's, and her throat ached with a sudden impulse toward weeping. He was back in a minute with a knobby sack of something very heavy, that rattled dully when he threw it in. "All right," he called. "Hope yuh make it, all right." "Sure, we'll make it! May have to shovel some " Again they started, and there were no more stops.
For several minutes Huggins searched the tender for a comfortable spot for his unprotected body, but scratchy, knobby pieces of wood, with a foundation of sharp chunks of coal, was not conducive to rest. A bullet rattling against the engine added to his irritation, and he looked over the edge and fired his revolver petulantly. "That'll larn 'em I'm no blinkin' Irishman with a stick."
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