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In comparison with this record, the Rhos were numbskulls, dwelling in an amplified smoking-room, Walt must admit; their control of the Eleven and of the Glee Club was nothing. And now his future was black with philology prizes, with meals at which stew was a staple, and where only visitors had clean napkins. The two fellows had by this time reached the trotting stables.
Flanders!" called Snider, again, "you must come and help us. There is water in this boat, we are in danger of sinking!" "Yes, go an' help him," shouted the Captain, "an' take that crowd of numbskulls with you." Eb's boat the only one of the four under sail had drawn well ahead of us. His "crowd of numbskulls" consisted of three men, among whom was Justin of the fan-like ears.
Though you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by their knavery. But damn ye altogether; damn them for a pack of crafty rascals, and ye who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls.
Apparently to him, in his strength and energy, they were all children, weaklings, failures, numbskulls, no matter what they might be in the world outside. They had no understanding of the most important of their possessions, their bodies. And here again, even more than in the gymnasium, they were at the disadvantage of feeling themselves spectacles, for here they were naked.
Indeed the archdeacon had been very stoutly anti-sabbatarial when the question of stopping the Sunday post to Plumstead had been mooted in the village, giving those who on that occasion were the special friends of the postman to understand that he considered them to be numbskulls, and little better than idiots.
They lived scarcely within shouting distance of one another, and were independent, like all pioneers. This winter of 1784-1785 Colonel Pope engaged a tutor for his two boys, to teach them the three R's Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic. He did not wish them to grow up numbskulls. He invited his neighbors to send their boys over and be tutored at the same time. It was a backwoods school.
That's all. The moralist tells us that 'no lie can be lawful or innocent. Now I take it that some of the old numbskulls who wrote such things in the church catechisms and books of that ilk ought to be drowned in the bottom of a well.
"If I had such men," he said, "I wouldn't be here pulling down a bridge. Your brother, Quiller, is in great luck. With such men, I could twist the cattle business around my finger. But when one has to depend upon a lot of numbskulls, he can expect to come out at the little end of the horn." I began to see that this Woodford, under some lights, might be a very sensible and a very pleasant man.
Even the buzzards and coyotes knew better than to go out in into the country where the cursed Mormon saint sent us numbskulls." Another said that while they had been seeking a heaven on earth they had passed through purgatory, or perhaps a worse place still nearer the one from which sulphurous fumes arise, and now they hoped that there might be a somewhat more heavenly place beyond the snow.
"Why do you ask?" demanded the corporal, with some show of spirit. "Does any man enjoy being spoken to like a thieving dog?" Instantly Kelly dropped back into a placid tone. "How do you think the men of that squad like hearing you talk to them as I've just talked to you?" "But they're such numbskulls!" declared Barrow.
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