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Updated: May 10, 2025
"What do you mean?" says he. "Nothing much," says Old Man Wright. "I may have overlooked a few things. I was wrong about that three hundred dollars." He flattens out on the table a mussed-up piece of paper he found in his side pocket. "It wasn't three hundred dollars at all, but three hundred thousand dollars," says he. "I forgot.
"Tabitha, Chrystobel is sorry she took your belongings out of the bottom drawer without asking your leave, and she has put them back as she found them " "She has opened every blessed thing and peeked at it," was Tabitha's indignant comment as she saw the mussed-up contents of the lower drawer, now restored to its place in the dresser. "Tabitha!"
He laughed when he thought of Major Belwether, too, confounded under the loss of such a nephew-in-law, humiliated, crushed, all his misleading jocularity, all his sleek pink-and-white suavity, all his humbugging bonhomie knocked out of him, leaving only a rumpled, startled old gentleman, who bore an amusing resemblance to a very much mussed-up buck-rabbit.
In the morning Tom had a mussed-up look and the reptile had a number of fresh wounds. As the camp was moved that day and Ned continued to object to taking an alligator in the canoe the reptile was turned loose. He walked with dignity out on the prairie until he was near the slough, when he scuttled hastily to the water and plunged in.
"I know it is said That my beautiful head Has brains of mixed wheat-straw and bran, But my thoughts are so good I'd not change, if I could, For the brains of a common meat man. "Content with my lot, I'm glad that I'm not Like others I meet day by day; If my insides get musty, Or mussed-up, or dusty, I get newly stuffed right away." The Loons of Loonville
"What do you mean by making a silly blunder like that?" he demanded, wrathfully. "But it's not a blunder," protested the youngster. "There was a one-eyed man in the audience!" "Why did you strike this man?" asked the Judge sternly. "He called me a liar, your honor," replied the accused. "Is that true?" asked the Judge, turning to the man with the mussed-up face.
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