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Updated: June 29, 2025
But they kept up a sham quarrel to mask this; thus Hocus was for Chapel, Pocus for Church, and it was agreed Hocus should denounce Pocus for drinking Port.
You don't!" laughed Dave, for it was a well known fact that Pocus Pete was considered the best man with his fists in that section of the country. "Oh, of course I'll fight when I have to. But I'm not goin' out of my way t' look for trouble." This was strictly true, and Dave knew it.
"Yes, th' job's been done recent," admitted Pocus Pete, "but that doesn't prove anythin'. Now if we could find a saw with Len's name on it, that might be some law-evidence. But I don't see any; do you?" There was no saw in sight. The cattle had retreated to the far side of the corral, leaving the part next the broken fence free for examination. But as Pete had said, there was no saw lying about.
We used to read in the novels of the last generation, "He was a magnificent specimen of manhood" "Her golden head reached scarcely to his shoulder" "She was a fairy creature the tiniest of her sex." Thus we have mated, and yet expected that by some hocus pocus the boys would all "take after their father," and the girls, their mother.
"Such a paste," says the correspondent to the Mirror, "would indeed be very visible." Another early formula is given in the 1763 edition of Hocus Pocus. From the fact that this formula was published during the time that Powell was appearing in England I gather that that circumstance may account for its addition to the book. It does not appear in the German or Dutch editions.
Bellmore down, and make him comfortable. "You'll stop and get something to eat, Dave, won't you, before you go back?" "Yes, just a bite, Dad. We haven't much time." A little later Mr. Bellmore was comfortably installed in the ranch house, while Dave and two other cowboys, after a hasty meal, were on their way back to relieve Pocus Pete, and repair the broken fence. This work was soon under way.
"If you won't listen to reason, then," roared Len, using his long legs to put him well in advance of the juvenile mob, "then I'll use enchantment to spoil your foolish work. You shall not duck Prescott! Hi, pi, yi, animus, hocus pocus! That enchantment will foil you!" Having reached the fountain, Len drew aside dramatically. "In with him!" shouted the youngsters.
Dave's face was scratched and one eye bruised. "Well, I s'pose it had to be," chuckled Pocus Pete. "What'd he do, try to rope you?" "No. He wouldn't have much chance at that, even if I was not on Crow." Then Dave told the story of the encounter.
Whooping, yelling, waving his hat and shooting, Dave took after the escaping steers. "Oh for one man to help," he cried aloud, and it seemed as if his cry was answered. For, riding toward him, and toward the bunch of stampeded cattle, he descried a figure that made his heart leap with joy. "Pocus Pete!" he cried. "Now we'll get you beasts back!"
If it possess the magical, and incredible, and most pestilential quality, that the English gentleman, who shall be virtuous and beneficent, and just in all his ways, before he leaves home, and after he returns home, shall, during his temporary sojourn within its influence become a very Nero for cruelty, and have his warm heart of flesh smuggled out of his bosom, by some hocus pocus, utterly unintelligible to any unprejudiced rational being, or indurated into the flint of the nether millstone, or frozen into a lump of ice"
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