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The visitor's jetty eyes forsook his face and pounced upon the clerk, who, with tongue in cheek, was filling out narrow slips of paper at a battered table clothed in a baize of a dye traditionally held to have been green. "How's your ma's lumbago, Willie Irons?" she demanded. The youth stammered a husky reply, and blushed far into his brick-colored hair.
An attack of lumbago that rendered him helpless from January until March followed and had decided Jan that inventors were born, not made. Thereafter he had been content to abandon the realm of research to his comrade and allow Willie to furnish the inspiration for further creative ventures.
To illustrate: the story of the woman who described the suddenness of the American cyclone by saying that, as she looked up from her gardening, "she saw the air black with her intimate friends," seems to me a thoroughly humorous application of the exaggeration principle. So, too, is the description of a man so terribly thin that he never could tell whether he had the stomach-ache or the lumbago.
He led the way into Sir Pitt's "Library," as it was called, the fumes of tobacco growing stronger as Pitt and Lady Jane approached that apartment, "Sir Pitt ain't very well," Horrocks remarked apologetically and hinted that his master was afflicted with lumbago. The library looked out on the front walk and park.
Above his head the battleship sailed on its green field. He began to come back, slowly, as if he were looking for something dropped on his path; then suddenly he stopped, turned again and was gone. There was no wire from Gwinnie. She had waited a week now. She wondered how long it would be before Gwinnie's mother's lumbago gave in and let her go.
Ramornie. "George caught lumbago at his last funeral Lord Pitcullo's, you know." George was the laird of Pettigrew. Nowadays his wife saw that he mixed with none but the most desirable company, whether it were alive or dead. "Oh, my dear, he must come over for it!" said her sister. "He will," replied Mrs. Ramornie; and they knew that point was settled.
So I dressed myself up in a jaunty way and walked out alone; got a fall, caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. Explicit Allegoria Senectutis. We have settled when old age begins. Like all Nature's processes, it is gentle and gradual in its approaches, strewed with illusions, and all its little griefs soothed by natural sedatives.
It was only for the effect on his mind that I gave the iron, which so far as I know is a styptic only; I always think it best to give something perhaps on the principle of the doctors when they give bread pills. I have cured both Paul and the carpenter of violent lumbago, but there I had a little knowledge to go upon.
But a live baby there was, in Mrs. Peerybingle's arms; and a pretty tolerable amount of pride she seemed to have in it, when she was drawn gently to the fire, by a sturdy figure of a man, much taller and much older than herself, who had to stoop a long way down, to kiss her. But she was worth the trouble. Six foot six, with the lumbago, might have done it. 'Oh goodness, John! said Mrs.
But I was younger at the time I felt inclined to say, "No, but our Lord wasn't your age, and he didn't know what it was to have your lumbago." Wicked wasn't it? But she's too good, you know, madam. When I tucked her up just now and seen saw her lying back, her hands outside and her head on the pillow so pretty I couldn't help thinking, "Now you look just like your dear mother when I laid her out!"
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