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As he draws up to me he's fifty foot in advance of the others he makes his lance shiver from p'int to butt. It fairly sings a death song! I can feel it go through an' through me a score of times. But I stands thar facin' him; for, of course, I wants it to go through from the front. I don't allow to be picked up later with anything so onfashionable as a lance wound in my back.
And he snapped me up and said he didn't know as there wuz anything onfashionable or ongenteel about a likely yearlin'. Sez he, "I'll bet they'd take it at Coney Island." "Well, what would he do with it here?" sez I. "Why, do as I do with it; let it grow up and make clear gain on its growth." "Oh shaw!" sez I, "he couldn't have it bellerin' round amongst the gay and fashionable throng."
They ar-re in a war that'd make th' British throops in Africa think they were drillin' f'r a prize banner. But'tis an onfashionable war. 'Tis an ol' war made over fr'm garments formerly worn be heroes.
I don't believe she likes it half so well up in the big hotel gardens or Courtin' yards, as she does down there. You see it seems as if Happiness would have to be more dressed up, up there, and girted down, and stiff actin', and on her good behavior, and afraid of actin' or lookin' onfashionable. We had a happy time there.
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