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Updated: May 13, 2025
"We need him in some of the first scenes to-morrow. Get him, somebody!" "Hey, Mister! Does yer mean dat funny, moon-faced man what talks like a pretzel?" asked a newsboy in the station. "Yes, that's Mr. Switzer," was the answer. "Where is he?" "I jest seen him go out dat way," and the boy pointed toward the doors leading to the street in front of the ferry.
Red-haired, soft eyed, moon-faced, round of belly and lymphatic of temperament, his principal occupation in life was to play fiddle in the Sardis string-band, and in the intervals of professional engagements at dances and picnics, to fill one of the large splint-bottomed chairs in front of the hotel with his pulpy form, and receive the smart or bitter sayings of the loungers there with a laught that began before any one else's, and lasted after the others had gotten through.
I went down the grade a hundred yards to where the footing beside the track was good. Here I could catch my freight as it pulled slowly up the hill, and here I found half a dozen hoboes waiting for the same purpose. Several were playing seven-up with an old pack of cards. I took a hand. A coon began to shuffle the deck. He was fat, and young, and moon-faced. He beamed with good-nature.
And you have had your share of schooling, they tell me?" "All that the academy had to give, sir." "And that's enough for any one who has the world to tussel with. How should you like to have gone through such hard lines, Frarnie?" turning to his daughter, a pale, moon-faced girl, her father's darling. "Were you never afraid?" she asked in her pretty simpering way.
The old lady from Chicago would have none of him; so we loafed alone together, now across half-rotten pine logs sunk in swampy ground, anon over the ringing geyser formation, then pounding through river-sand or brushing knee-deep through long grass. "And why did you enlist?" said I. The moon-faced one's face began to work.
I remember also how, in the warmth of our new friendship, Fatima unveiled to him the future, which, through some joke of my father's, we had laid out for ourselves. "I am to marry a Sultan, for I am moon-faced; but Mary is to be a linguist, for she has large eyes. "'Then Miss Mary is not to marry? said the old gentleman, with a grim smile. "I shook my head in sage disdain.
"The best man in our lot is an ex-grocer's assistant, but in order to save us from vain generalisations it happens that the worst man a moon-faced creature, almost incapable of lacing up his boots without help and objurgation is also an ex-grocer's assistant.
The older child, Pascualet, was the living likeness of his father, stocky, full-bellied, moon-faced. He looked like a seminary student specializing on the Refectory, and already the fishermen had dubbed him "the Rector," a nickname that was to stick to him for life. He was eight years older than Antonio, a lean, nervous, domineering little fellow who had Tona's eyes.
Rustem and his companions rushed into the inner apartments, and captured all the blooming damsels of the shubistán, and all the jewels and golden ornaments which fell in their way. The moon-faced beauties were sent to Zábul; but the jewels and other valuable property were reserved for the king.
Moon-faced and fat, silent and slow, he was not imperial of aspect on canvas or coin, even when his brows were decorated with the conventional laurel wreath.
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