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Updated: May 2, 2025
The commonest jockey-boy in this company of manikins can usually earn more than the average scholar or professional man, and the whole set receive a good deal more of adulation than has been bestowed on any soldier, sailor, explorer, or scientific man of our generation. And what is the life-history of the jockey?
Our ensign, true to himself, gives the minutest schedule of the order of march, and the oddest little diagram of manikins with cocked hats, and blacker manikins bearing burdens.
The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. The Middle Age regarded skin color with mild curiosity; and even up into the eighteenth century we were hammering our national manikins into one, great, Universal Man, with fine frenzy which ignored color and race even more than birth.
To subdue a small and indifferent country like this is a trifle. Ye see what little, barefooted manikins the men of it are. I could lick four of 'em single-handed. "'No doubt, says I. 'But could you lick six? And suppose they hurled an army of seventeen against you? "'Listen, says O'Connor, 'to what will occur. At noon next Tuesday 25,000 patriots will rise up in the towns of the republic.
From this glittering array one passed, without transition, into the sombre depot of ecclesiastical vestments. Here all was black. One saw only piles of cassocks and pyramids of black hats. Two manikins, one clothed in a cardinal's purple robe, the other in episcopalian violet, threw a little color over the gloomy show. But the large hall with painted statues amazed Amedee.
The box contained a quantity of exquisitely carved wooden manikins of both sexes, painted with great dexterity so as to present a miniature resemblance to Nature.
You're certainly a happy-looking trio so unconventional. I hate to see children all dressed up and stiff as little manikins, when they go out to ride. And you look as if you had been having SUCH a good time with them." "I I assure you, Miss Mayton," said I, "that my experience has been the exact reverse of a pleasant one.
Instantly from the opposite corner came the old response, still feebler than the question, a mere gurgle, as it were, of "Brandy and water." Then all was silent. The Mino-birds were dead. "They spill blood like Christians," said the Wondersmith, gazing fondly on the manikins. "They will be famous assassins." Herr Hippe stood in the doorway, scowling.
Something in the attitude of the manikins faces they have none, they are too small for that something in the way they swing these monstrous volumes to their singing, something perhaps borrowed from the text, some subtle differentiation from the cut that went before and the cut that follows after something, at least, speaks clearly of a fearful joy, of Heaven seen from the deathbed, of the horror of the last passage no less than of the glorious coming home.
I looked down at the hurrying little black manikins on the sidewalks, each, apparently, bound somewhere on business or pleasure of its own, and I wondered vaguely what that business or pleasure might be and why they hurried so. There were many single ones, of course, and occasionally groups of three or four, but couples were the most numerous.
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