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It was the custom for ladies to have delicate appetites in my day, you see; and I remember your grandma's amazement when Miss Pokey Mickleborough was asked at our table what piece of chicken she preferred, and answered quite aloud, 'Leg, if you please. She was considered very indelicate by your grandma, who had never so much as tasted any part except the wing."
Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast. What time Mrs Veneering, carrying baby dressed as a bridesmaid, flits about among the company, emitting flashes of many-coloured lightning from diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.
A passing shower was sprinkling the doorsteps with a few big drops, and the girl drew back with a look of disappointment on her face. "It always rains when you don't want it to," she said. "Wish there was somebody to play with. It's pokey here, with gran' gone to Witham's. I don't know what to do."
"Tell Aunt Rachel they are wearing another kind of bonnet in London more pokey in front and say if I see the Queen I'll be sure to tell her all about it. "We didn't get to the hospital until nine, so I've not seen much of it yet. The housekeeper gave me tea and told me I might go over the house, as I wouldn't be wanted to begin duty before morning.
Most people are proud of their children when they see others admire them; but she does say such pokey things! Of course I know that having a gift for music, and a taste for drawing, and a reputation for saying witty, bright things isn't enough. But when she doesn't find fault with me, and nothing happens to keep me down, I am the gayest creature on earth.
Inhabits rocky shores, and is not common. Specimen caught by the hook, on the 4th April, 1841. Good eating. No. 21. HELOTES? Native names, BOORA, BOWRU, also CHARLUP. The "Pokey," or "small Trumpeter" of the sealers. "Rays, D. 11 1-11; A. 2-11; etc." Inhabits rocky places. Good to eat. Caught by the seine, on the 3rd March, 1841. No. 24. CHEILODACTYLUS GIBBOSUS. Solander. Icon. Ined. Banks.
"She is such an inquisitive little body she is always poking that mite of a nose into everything; and as Paul Pry did not suit, the boys fell to calling her Pokey. Not a pretty name, but very expressive."
So everyone but Mac, the gay Westerner, and Rose, took their places on the rocky seats and discussed the late beautiful and varied charade, in which Pokey frankly pronounced her own scene the "bestest of all." In five minutes the curtain was lifted; nothing appeared but a very large sheet of brown paper pinned to a tree, and on it was drawn a clock-face, the hands pointing to four.
"Hear that will you, Thomas!" cried Jane. "Mr. Potter never hurried the best-tastin' ones!" Thomas gave her a significant stare. "I tell you, a certain person is growin' keen," he said in a low voice. Jane took Gwendolyn by the arm. "Put all that Johnnie Blake nonsense out of your head," she commanded. "Folks that live in the woods don't know nothin'. They're silly and pokey."
"Religion?" "Quaker." "Right! Quaker Oats! Section 'E, over there." But my old postman knew better, and, having found out where "Section E" was camped, we went off up the town to look for lodging for the night, knowing that in such a crowd of civilians we could not be missed. At last we found a pokey little house where the woman agreed to let us stay the night and get some breakfast next day.
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