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Updated: June 22, 2025
The heat is never so great but that the majority of males endure black coats and black shiny hats. The others are in a minority. The voice of public opinion is not on their side. "Who stole the moke, Anna?" asked suspicion; and the answer came, "The man in the chapeau blanc."
Cornwallis West, Ellen Terry, Mary Anderson, Mrs. Kendal, and other good mounts; but Mrs. Langtry was the pick of the basket for speed and endurance. I asked the name of Motee's moke, which he said was his next best one, and found that it was called Mr. Gladstone! The pair were excellent friends, and insisted on walking side by side, although Motee did all he could to keep Mr. Gladstone behind.
MAUNDER, to stroll about and beg, has been derived from Mand, the Anglo- Saxon for a basket, but is quite as likely to have come from Maunder, the Gipsy for "to beg." Mumper, a beggar, is also from the same source. MOKE, a donkey, is said to be Gipsy, by Mr Hotten, but Gipsies themselves do not use the word, nor does it belong to their usual language. The proper Rommany word for an ass is myla.
Pointing proudly to the long-legged, big-headed, ugly moke mooching by the door, smelling the dust, he would say: "Be a fine horse in another year! Little sleepy-looking yet; that's nothing!" "Stir him up a bit, till we see how he canters," he said to Joe one day.
"Not very much; and Tom said I was the first gentleman he had ever known come from Oxford you must pay for a remark like that. He described us as 'bloomin' 'aughty, and 'not enough brass to buy a moke. Do you know that you are playing for the 'Varsity on Saturday against Blackheath? I want to go up to town, so I shall come and see you play."
If I said I could ride a moke, nobody would see it, and if it were seen it wouldn't make any impression; but to say I killed two mountain-lions with a jack-knife on the edge of a precipice, with the sun standing still to look at it, is as good as the original lie and better; and I score. My reputation increases." Nathan Rockwell's equilibrium was restored. "You're certainly a wonder," he declared.
Dicky's health was drunk with cheers and laughter, and Dilly completed its subject's confusion by kissing him. "Now, Dolly!" said every one. "Not yet!" said Dolly. "Gerald and Moke are the next pair. Gerald must act lady, and think of a toast." Master Gerald, hastily bolting a solid mass of mince-pie one could almost follow the course of its descent cheerfully complied.
'What's all that lingo, Mr. M'Intyre? called out Jim, all good-natured again. 'Is it French or Queensland blacks' yabber? Blest if I understand a word of it. But I didn't want to be nasty, only I am regular shook on this old moke, I believe, and he's as square as Mr. Falkland's dogcart horse. 'Maybe ye bocht him fair eneugh. I'll no deny you.
It appears that a nigger postmaster was appointed at that place who was persona non grata, and the people employed at their own expense the ex-postmaster to receive their mail for them from the moke. Although a man has an inalienable right to appoint what agent he pleases to receive his money or his mail, the ex-p. m. is to be prosecuted for "conducting a post-office."
I'm ridin' an old moke on errands for him whin his hired folks is busy. A man must live, and there's that purty lass with the Irish eyes! Man alive, but it goes to me heart to luk at her." "Well, I think I must have a 'luk' at her then," was Burlingame's half satirical remark. Not long after Patsy Kernaghan had left Burlingame's office, the Young Doctor came.
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