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Updated: June 29, 2025
And, sure enough, around squirmed every little white and yellow bunch and up went every little new-born nose as it sniffed at the recession of the maternal fount. One little precocious even went so far as to attempt to set his wee fore paddies against Rose Mary's knee and to stiffen a tiny plume of a tail, with a plain instinct to point the direction of the shifting base of supplies.
Still the merchant saw that Dennis was fine-looking, would appear well behind the counter, and make a taking salesman with the ladies, he stopped to parley a moment more. "Do you understand the business?" "No, sir; but I can soon learn, for I am young and strong." "Strength is not what is needed, but experience. Ours is not the kind of work for Paddies."
"There is no end of 'paddies' along this river, and I'm sure they cannot understand your lingo." "Is it paddies in this haythen oisland?" demanded Felix, suspending the operation of dressing himself, and staring at his fellow deck-hand. "I don't belayve a wurrud of ut!" "Are there no paddies up this river, Achang?" said Louis, appealing to the Bornean.
'I know that, Paddy, says he for they call us all Paddies in England, as if we had only one name among us, the thieves; 'but I wish to know his name, says the Englishman. "'You do! says Ned; 'and by the powers! says he, 'but you must first tell me which side of the head you'd wish to hear it an.
While gazing up the Rue de Rivoli or across the rice paddies at the snowy cap of Fuji, his Blood would become het by the old boyhood Desire to sail across the Blue to Foreign Parts. Those who saw him mowing the Lawn little suspected that he was being inwardly eaten by the Wanderlust.
The Chinese call them "cow-cows" and understand them better than the Tagals, as they understand better the rice and the paddies. Once Thirteen was yanked out of Healy's hand as no volley of native shots had ever disordered. The mules were in a gorge trotting into the town of Indang.
"When shall we come across the paddies, Achang?" asked Felix; "for I am very anxious to meet them, and maybe we shall have a Kilkenny fight with them." "No, you won't, for you speak English," replied Louis. "The paddies are here on both sides of the river," added Achang. "I don't see a man of any sort, not even a Hottentot, and I am sure there is not a Paddy in sight."
You feel happy to pay people big salaries for talking baseball?" "No; of course not; but how can I help it? A man can't hire reliable help for love or money in this town, and I haven't got time to watch all of 'em." "How would it do to have the bookkeeper check up those sales-slips you are tearing your hair over, instead of manicuring her pretty paddies and tucking in her scolding locks?"
There were occasionally very welcome variations from this menu. Some paddies a little white bird not unlike a pigeon were snared with a loop of string, and fried, with one water-sodden biscuit, for lunch. Enough barley and peas for one meal all round of each had been saved, and when this was issued it was a day of great celebration.
Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam. Under one such marker lies a young man Martin Treptow who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division.
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