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As a rule, a knight is a lummox, and some times even a labrick, and hence open to pretty poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, but even he could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; and so of late you couldn't clean up a tournament and pile the result without finding one of my accident-tickets in every helmet.
Wraggles, I'd be askin' ye to marry me. Then the gal ups and sez, sez she: 'But I AIN'T Mrs. Wraggles, sez she; 'Mrs. Wraggles is my sister, and couldn't come, so I'm travelin' on her ticket, and that's how my name is Wraggles on the passenger list. 'But why didn't ye tell me so at once? sez Lummox.
'It IS a little too showy for ye, sez I, 'but I might take him at a fair price. What's your fr'en' askin'? 'He won't sell him to anybody but me, sez Lummox; 'he's a horror o' hoss traders, anyway, and his price is more like a gift to a fr'en'. 'What might that price be, ef it's a fair question? sez I, for the more I looked at the hoss the more I liked him.
Oswald is a big fair-haired lummox that sings tenor in the Presbyterian choir and has the young men's Bible class in the Sabbath School.
'Are you goin' out o' the bizness? "'No, I'm only goin' to change that sign from "Dan'l Borem" to "Borem and Lummox," sez I. 'I've concluded it's cheaper for me to take you inter partnership now than to continue in this way, which would only end in your hevin' to take me in later. I preferred to DO IT FUST."
Buddy's low, gasping cry had the effect of a roar; it left the room echoing, then savagely he lunged at his assailant. He was blind, in him was a sudden maniacal impulse to destroy; he had no thought of consequences. Gray knocked him down. It was a blow that would have felled an ox. As the youth lay half dazed, he heard the other taunting him, mocking him. "Get up, you lummox, and defend yourself.
Both William and Joe Bullitt began to wonder why on earth Johnnie Watson didn't have any more sense than to invite such a big, fat lummox of a cousin to the party. This severe phrase of theirs, almost simultaneous in the two minds, was not wholly a failure as a thumb-nail sketch of Mr. George Crooper. And yet there was the impressiveness of size about him, especially about his legs and chin.
In the arternoon I called in an old hoss dealer that I knew and shows him Pegasus. "'He wants renewin', sez he. "'Wot's that? sez I. "'A few more bottles o' that British Blonde Hair Dye to set him up ag'in. That's wot they allus do in the cirkis, whar he kem from. "Then I went back to the office and I took down my sign. 'What's that you re doin'? sez Lummox, with a sickly kind o' smile.
The proprietor was a calm, cold man. He viewed Hawkins with an inscrutable stare for some time before he spoke. "I hardly know, Mr. Hawkins," he said at last, "whom to blame for this." "Well, I know! That hulking lummox who knocked over my " "At any rate, the machine was yours, I fear you will have to pay for the damage." "I will, eh?" blustered Hawkins.
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