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I ain't the first man to come trailin' in with news of a strike. An' I had nothin' to show for it. Not even a color of gold. Nothin' but the word of a dead Aleut, my own jedgment, an' my own sight of an island I never landed on. Matter of fact, Honest Simms was the only one who didn't laff at me outright. It was on'y his bad luck made him try a chance at gold 'stead of keepin' after pelts.
Why, your reverence, don't you know, packeteers never carries a gun?" the old man exclaimed with disgust, and then continued his story: "Not content with that, the brute starts to roll me over an' over. An' all the time I'm doin' me best to play dead. Now you needn't laff.
To write the word "laugh," the pen has to make FOURTEEN strokes. To write "laff," the pen has to make the SAME NUMBER of strokes no labor is saved to the penman. To write the same word with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only THREE strokes. To write the word "highland," the pen has to make twenty-two strokes. To write "hyland," the pen has to make eighteen strokes.
"Ain't we got a right to laff?" demanded one of the cowboys who were making the disturbance. "Yes, but not so as to drown everything else," answered Sid Todd. "An' you can't sing." "We come here fer some fun," said the other cowboy from the Merwell ranch. "An' we are going to have it. Whoop her up, everybody!" And he commenced to sing once more.
Such was her summary comment. But not satisfied with that, she leaned out of the carriage, and, making an extraordinary grimace appear the mother in labour of the difficult words, said, 'Doos yo' laff? There was no helping it: I laughed like a madman, giving one outburst and a dead stop. Far from looking displeased, she nodded. I was again put to the dreadful test. 'Can yo' mak' laff?
Beany let the wind out of the organ and it squeaked and made everybody laff. Keene and Cele sing in the quire. father feels pretty big about it.
July 31. tonite a man come down to see father and said i had gumped up behind a fence without my close on and scart his girls. he was stoping at the beach and they come up to Mager Blakes hotel. well father called me in and i told the man all about it and bimeby he begun to laff and he said it was a prety meen trick on me and he shook hands with me and he was glad i dident do it a purpose only he was sorry i got stung.
"What's the matter?" he demanded sharply. And his demand was not intended for the saloon-keeper alone. "Ke'p your shirt on, Buck," exclaimed Beasley, with studied good-nature. "We couldn't jest help but laff." Then his eyes became sentimentally serious. "Y' see, we bin worried some. We wus guessin' when you came along.
She done been bawn in de Colby famb'ly, an' she know Mars' Colby better dan he know he'self. Fiery as he was, she know dat if yo' kin mak' him laff, he'd fo'give a nigger 'most anyt'ing. "So my ol' mammy tol' Sally Alley wot tuh say an' do. Sally wipe her eyes an' mak' herse'f neat erg'in, an' wa'k up ter de big house brave as a lion in de seemin' jes' as de gran' folkses comes out upon de lawn.
The controversy rose to fever-heat; abuse succeeded argument; and the little man again and again was hooted into silence. "It's easy laffin'," he cried at last, "but ye'll laff t'ither side o' yer ugly faces on Cup Day." "Will us, indeed? Us'll see," came the derisive chorus. "We'll whip ye till ye're deaf, dumb, and blind, Wullie and I." ''Yo'll not! "We will!"
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