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At first he found it rather up-hill work, for Lippy happened to be gifted with a strong sense of the ludicrous, so that when he took her on his knee the day on which the idea occurred to him opened his mouth, and gave forth the first notes of a hymn in a fine sonorous bass voice, the child gazed at him for a few moments in open-eyed wonder, and then burst into an uncontrollable fit of open-mouthed laughter.
'Well, he says, 'I've been looking for a man so useful sweeping floors that I could pay him four dollars a day. Want the job, my friend? Ha, ha, ha! Say, you know how lippy Bjornstam is? Well for once he didn't have a thing to say.
Boyd's enthusiasm was at the boiling point. "The Yankees are all cowards " Kirby straightened in his saddle, the lazy good humor gone from his face. "Kid, don't git so lippy 'bout what you ain't rightly learned yet. Yankees can fight they can fight good. You saw 'em do that today. And don't you ever forgit it!" Boyd was disconcerted, but he clung doggedly to his belief.
McDonald, in two years, dug from the frozen ground $2,207,893. Charley Anderson, on Eldorado, panned out $700 in three hours. T. S. Lippy is said to have paid the Canadian government $65,000 in royalties for the year 1898 and Clarence Berry about the same. On Skukum Gulch $30,000 were taken from two boxes of dirt.
HEAD Narrow, long and level, almost flat skull, without cheek muscles, wedge-shaped, well filled up under the eyes, tapering to the nose, and not lippy. EYES Small and black, set fairly close together, and oblong in shape. NOSE Perfectly black. EARS Cropped and standing perfectly erect.
They got to eat and to drink to the extent, as a rule, of a "lippy" of short bread and a "brew" of toddy; but open Bibles lay on the table, and the eyes of each were on his neighbors to catch them transgressing, and offer up a prayer for them on the spot. Ay me! there is no Bowie nowadays to fill an absent minister's shoes. The ministers in the town did not hold with literature.
The cave is not as dry as one could wish and, then, you'll be cheered by the sound of children playing round you." "Yes, it will be pleasant to have Lippy running out and in again," said Zeppa.
He then held the glass to the mistress, and she made it a lippy. "Hae, Jack," said the landlord, "I'm sure, after your hard travail the day, ye'll no be the waur o' a dram." "Curse the liquor," exclaimed the dragoon, "I'm not to be bribed by a dram."
Although he had refused to go out to war with his entertainers, he felt no disposition to stand idly by when they were attacked. Disordered though his mind was, he could make a clear distinction between aggressive war and self-defence. "And where is Lippy?" he asked, glancing round on the terrified faces. "She is caught and carried away with her mother."
The chief was amusing himself at the time by watching his prime minister Wapoota playing with little Lippy, who had become a favourite at the palace since Zeppa had begun to take notice of her. "I would palaver with the chief," said the missionary. "Let Lippy be gone," said the chief.
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