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"Well, Reddypalm," said Mr Romer, shaking hands with him. Mr Romer had not been equally cautious as Nearthewinde, and had already drunk sundry glasses of ale at the Brown Bear, in the hope of softening the stern Bear-warden. "How is it to be to-day? Which is to be the man?" "If any one knows that, Mr Romer, you must be the man. A poor numbskull like me knows nothing of them matters.
Why couldn't he let me keep on studying with Mr. Morrison, as the doctor said I ought to? What's the use of this blamed old Latin and Greek, anyway? Nobody about here knows them, and why should I set myself up for a precious numbskull of a scholar? I'd rather be a crack shot like you any day!
This clause effectually confounds all the assertions of the anti-federalists, respecting the representatives not being sufficiently acquainted with the different local interests of their constituents; for a representative, qualified as the constitution directs, must be a greater numbskull than a Vox Populi or an Agrippa, not to have a knowledge of the different concerns of the Confederation.
Then to the old black, who had stood by, saucer-eyed and speechless, the while: "Anthony, do you be as big a numbskull as you were born to be, and hold these redcoat gentlemen in palaver till we can win out at the back." The old majordomo nodded his good-will, but now my slow wit came in play. "We've done it now," said I. "The horses will go out as they came in, or not at all.
By and by the money was all gone and an old pal of mine offered to set me up in business out here, away from the city and old memories. And here I am again the same old fool and numbskull. I'll sell out this week and git. What I'll do I don't know. I'm not a smart man. It was always Annie that did the heavy thinking and the advising and had the ideas for starting things."
Numbskull Nob, jutting up from a hidden reef, over which a line of white-capped breakers was booming thunderously, seemed to justify the presence of the modern light that warned off closer approach to the island; for the stretch of water that lay between was a treacherous shoal where many a good ship had stranded in years gone by, when Killykinick was only a jagged ledge of rock where the sea birds nested and man had no place.
"What's the color got to do with it?" "It's got everything to do with it. Illinois is green, Indiana is pink. You show me any pink down here, if you can. No, sir; it's green." "Indiana PINK? Why, what a lie!" "It ain't no lie; I've seen it on the map, and it's pink." You never see a person so aggravated and disgusted. He says: "Well, if I was such a numbskull as you, Huck Finn, I would jump over.
I was of a mind to tell the captain who was drinking his liquor but here again I feared, and cursed myself for fearing. When the mate told him of where he had found me, at last what he had done what I had said Schantze laughed.... But, later on, he sympathised with me and unexpectedly remarked: "Johann, how can you expect a heavy-minded numbskull like Miller to understand!"
What did y' s'pose, you numbskull?" "Well, I never saw anything" "You'll have a chance mighty quick, sir. Grab ahold, sir! Swing 'im around there! Now easy, easy! Now, then, one, two; one, two that's right."
"What a numbskull I am," scolded Arnold. "Here I might have killed our best friend. I must get the habit of thinking." "How about it, friend?" queried Jack shaking the stranger by the shoulder. "What have you got on the meat?" "Nothing," stoutly declared the newcomer, keeping his face turned toward the bulkhead. "I have nothing on it." "I see," scorned Jack.
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