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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Nix on that King Cophetua stuff!" I curtly and vulgarly proclaimed. "Just what do you mean?" he asked, studying my face. "Kindly can the condescension stuff!" I repeated, taking a wayward satisfaction out of shocking him with the paraded vulgarity of my phrasing. "That doesn't sound like you," he said, naturally surprised, I suppose, that I didn't melt into his arms. "Why not?"
He hated his native speech so much that he cried when he was forced to use it with his father and mother at home; he furiously denied it with the boys who proposed to parley with him in it on such terms as "Nix come arouce in de Dytchman's house." He disused it so thoroughly that after his father took him out of school, when he was old enough to help in the shop, he could not get back to it.
At first the giant's daughter did not know how to help Nix Nought Nothing; but she cut off first her fingers and then her toes, and made steps of them, and he clomb the tree and got all the eggs safe till he came just to the bottom, and then one was broken.
"No," Patty said, discouraged, "I didn't quite say that, here's Janet now. Let her do your hair for you!" "Do my hair! Mercy gracious! I should say not! I've never had that done for me." "But I'm sure you'll be pleased with the way she'd do it. Janet is an artist at hair-dressing." "Nopy! nix on the barber act for little Zaly! I'll comb my own wig, thank you!"
I dodged behind a pile of planks, intending to slip back the way I had come. Before I could move Buell's voice rooted me to the spot. "His name's Ward. Tall, well-set lad. I put Greaser after him the other night, hopin' to scare him back East. But nix!" "Well, he's here now to study forestry! Ha! ha!" said the other. "You're sure the boy you mean is the one I mean?" "Greaser told me so.
His Arverne Sacques is all right, Barney, but the rest is nix. He's a one garment man. Tell Miss Aaronstamm to bring in her book. I want to send them Boston Store people a letter." A moment later Miss Aaronstamm entered, and sat down at a sample table. "Write to the Boston Store," Leon Sammet said. "'Horowitz & Finkelbein, Proprietors, Gents' got that?
No, Doc, not on your life, even Tennessee moonshine couldn't do that nix!" "All right, O'Keefe," I answered, now very much irritated indeed. "What's your theory?" And I could not resist adding: "Fairies?" "Professor," he grinned, "if that Thing's a fairy it's Irish and when it sees me it'll be so glad there'll be nothing to it.
And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch which would keep Nix Nought Nothing awake as long as the gardener's daughter liked. So she went up to the castle and sang her catch and Nix Nought Nothing was wakened for a bit and they promised to wed him to the gardener's daughter.
"Sure!" says I, and it ain't until I'm outside that I sees this is just her way of tryin' me out; for I has a fine chance to beat it. "Nix!" thinks I. "I might as well see this thing through and get a decision." So back I goes with the suitcase and laundry bag. She hadn't even followed me to the door. "Ah!" says she, lookin' up. "You weren't afraid to come back, then. Why?"
"Saturday night, mind!" said M'Ginnis, loud and authoritative. "But say, Bud," demanded the smartly dressed youth, "what's coming to us on that last deal?" "Nix that's what you get, Soapy!" The youth's pale cheek grew livid. "So you've got the deck stacked against us, eh, Bud?" said he. "I got a close mouth, Soapy, I guess you don't want me t' open it very wide now or any other old time.
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