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Besides this ornyment to their saloon, Lady and Miss Griffin kept a number of other servants in the kitching; 2 ladies'-maids; 2 footmin, six feet high each, crimson coats, goold knots, and white cassymear pantyloons; a coachmin to match; a page: and a Shassure, a kind of servant only known among forriners, and who looks more like a major-general than any other mortial, wearing a cock-hat, a unicorn covered with silver lace, mustashos, eplets, and a sword by his side.
It ain't as if it was a walnut, where the srivel's a ornyment to the shell." "Then let's lie wait for my gentleman with a couple o' sticks." David's wrinkled face expanded, and his eyes nearly-closed. "Hah! Now you're talking sense, sir," he said, in a husky whisper, as if the idea was too good to be spoken aloud. "Hazel sticks, sir thick 'uns?" "Hazel! A young scoundrel!" cried Tom.
I'll bet a hundred you're the feller that's been a-doin' all this devilment. Here you, Susy Airey, have you seen Bill a-eatin' the ornyment?" Both the young ladies solemnly and truthfully declared that they had never noticed any such thing; and pointed out that parrots, in their belief, did not eat candy. The next day amputation and subtraction had proceeded yet further.
"You ain't got sense enough to know the difference between a hair rope and a can of California apricots." "Put 'em in a box?" cried Curly. "Why? Them was ornyments! Now you ain't got a ornyment on your whole place, except a horned toad and four tarantulas in a teacup. Now a real ornyment is somethin' you put on the parlor table, man, and show it free and open. It's sort of sacred like."
You can't help feelin' good to have some little ornyment like that around the place, you know, special if there's women around. But now, fellers, what I was goin' to say is, there's mice, or rats, got in on this range some how, and they " "Why didn't you put 'em in a box?" asked McKinney, severely.
'Keep it for an ornyment, said the young man. 'Good afternoon Good afternoon, said Ursula and Birkin. 'Goo'-luck to you, said the young man, glancing and avoiding Birkin's eyes, as he turned aside his head. The two couples went asunder, Ursula clinging to Birkin's arm. When they had gone some distance, she glanced back and saw the young man going beside the full, easy young woman.
In a surprisingly short time he came back with a stout pair of boots and some warm stockings, and a half-worn cloth overcoat and cap. "Shure, and ye won't mind their coming from the second-hand shop with the three yallow balls put up for ornyment. Me uncle lives there and he's very obligin'." Dick flushed with a mixture of gratitude and shrinking.
"Settle when you git your pay." He led him then to a pawn shop where he picked out a thirty-two calibre revolver and several boxes of cartridges. Also a thick-bladed claspknife. "See here, Stubbs," objected Wilson, "I don't need those things. I'm not going pirating, am I?" "Maybe so. Maybe only missionaryin'. But a gun's a useful ornyment in either case."
Lieutenant-General Sir George Griffin, K.C.B., was about seventy-five years old when he left this life, and the East Ingine army, of which he was a distinguished ornyment.
I wish I had such a Forrest in my Garding! I feel that the Show Bizniss, which Ive stroven to ornyment, is bein usurpt by Poplar Lecturs, as thay air kalled, tho in my pinion thay air poplar humbugs. Individoouls, who git hard up, embark in the lecturin biznis.
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