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Of course he did not attach his name to it, and as it appeared anonymously he felt that he could say what he liked in other words, tell the truth about his friends and acquaintances, or at least give his opinion of them. Incidentally, he pokes fun at the literary fads of the day.
He hears fast enough, an' pokes up the black horns of en at the first smell o' prayer. Not but what my Tom's aloft, in the main-top o' paradise. I seed en pass 'pon a black wave wi' a gray foamin' crest. An' the white sawl o' my bwoy went mountin' and mountin' in shape o' a seabird. Men dies hard in salt water, you mind. It plays wi' 'em like a cat wi' a mouse.
'You may well smart, young man! exclaimed Miss Jenny. And stealthily rubbed her little hands behind him, and poked a few exultant pokes with her two forefingers over the crown of his head. 'What do you think of vinegar and brown paper? inquired the suffering Fledgeby, still rocking and moaning. 'Does it look as if vinegar and brown paper was the sort of application?
Holding to the lion's mane to steady herself, Dorothy blinked up uncertainly at the sign over the gate. "Hah here we are Hoh!" She held her hand wearily before her mouth. Then, with a great effort, she read the words of the sign. "Um Great Grand and Mighty Slow Kingdom of Pokes! Uh-hah Pokes! Do you hear? Hah, hoh, hu, uum!" Dorothy looked about in alarm, despite her sleepiness.
"Aren't you measuring me by your own yard, sir?" said Father Dan, and at that straight thrust my husband broke into ungovernable rage. "Everybody knows what a Popish priest is," he said. "A meddlesome busybody who pokes his nose into other men's secrets. But priest or no priest, I'll have no man coming to my house to make mischief between husband and wife."
Like an honorable rural member of our General Court, who sat silent until, near the close of a long session, a bill requiring all swine at large to wear pokes was introduced, when he claimed the privilege of addressing the house, on the proper ground that he had been "brought up among the pigs, and knew all about them," so we were brought up among cows and cabbages; and the lowing of cattle, the cackling of hens, and the cooing of pigeons were sounds native and pleasant to our ears.
"Get up," cried the Child, speaking in a voice of immense authority, pulling off the bedclothes and giving the boys sundry pokes and digs. "I've been calling you this last half-hour. It's late, and I'll tell on you if you don't get dressed this minute." Anton awoke sufficiently to turn over and kick Hans on a tender part, whereupon Hans pulled Lena's pigtail until she shrieked for her mother.
It was a fine day, and the young people would have enjoyed the ride in spite of the breakers ahead, if Aunt Kipp hadn't entertained the girl with a glowing account of the splendors of her own wedding, and aggravated the boy by frequent pokes and directions in the art of driving, of which she was of course, profoundly ignorant.
They're alive!" "Asleep," grumbled Ned disgustedly. "But there's something the matter with them. Something has happened to the stock," added Tad. "Only a false alarm," nodded Stacy. "Think so? Try to wake your pony up," advised Tad. Stacy had already hurried to his own broncho, and now began tugging at the bridle rein, with sundry pokes in the animal's ribs. "I can't.
They'd lay down 'n' ramble till they dropped if I lets 'em. They liked it fine! "'I'll send Pixley around to-morrow, says Banks. 'I want you to teach her the jockey's crouch when she's on her horse. "Next mawnin' I'm oilin' up the dingus when a chicken pokes her little head out the back door of the livery-stable. "'Hello, kid, she says to me. "'Hello, girlie, I says back.
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