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Not to sit in it; merely to draw out the little volume from under the cushion. "'Lyrics from Tennyson," he read aloud. "What the devil are them things?" He turned the pages. "Pomes!" he grunted in disgust. Whereupon he carried his own book to his own chair. But, beginning to turn the pages, he stopped and looked up wonderingly. "Funny ol' duck," he mused.
He took a chanst on ivrything; an' he won a foldin'-bed, a doll that cud talk like an old gate, a pianny, a lamp-shade, a Life iv St. Aloysius, a pair iv shoes, a baseball bat, an ice-cream freezer, an' th' pomes iv Mike Scanlan. "Th' comity was disthracted. Here was a man that 'd break th' fair, an' do it with th' best iv humor; f'r he come fr'm another parish. So we held a private session.
But what cud ye ixpict? I will throw both letters into the secret dossier. "'What's that? says Matther Blamange. "'It's a collection iv pomes wrote to th' Paris papers be spies, says th' prisident. 'Call Colonel Peekhart, if th' others ar-re not through. What, you again, Peekhart? Set down, sir. "'Gintlemen iv Fr-rance, says Colonel Peekhart.
Seeing that I was as much infected as the rest, the poet turned to me, with an air of offended dignity, "I don't take the trouble, mister, to repeat any more of my pomes to you; nor do I take it kind at all, your laughing at me in that ere way. But the truth is, you can't comprehend nor appreciate anything that is sublime, or out of the common way.
"I reckon that's about right," said that sober-faced puncher; "Ace is the pote lariat of this here outfit, an' he sure has got a lot of right clever lines in his pomes. I've read them which wasn't one-two-three with his'n." Norton smiled, a little cynically.
They descended the draw, and presently dipped over rolling ground to the plain beyond. The procession plowed steadily forward mile after mile, the pomes floundering through drifts after the man ahead. Chinn, who had watched him breasting the soft heavy blanket that lay on the ground so deep and hemmed them in, turned to his companion.
A flat stone was secured about two feet square, for the bottom, and around and over this stone was erected an oven of stone, brick and mortar, capable of holding about four good sized pomes.
But I'd like to have one of them pomes printed in the Kicker just to show the folks in this here country that there's a real pote in their midst." "Why " began Hollis, about to express his surprise over his guest's sudden determination to depart. But he saw Nellie Hazelton standing just outside the door, and the cause of Ace's projected departure was no longer a mystery.
But Bill wuz at his best when he wrote things about the children, about the little ones that died, I mean. Seemed like Bill had a way of his own of sayin' things that wuz beautiful 'nd tender; he said he loved the children because they wuz innocent, and I reckon yes, I know he did, for the pomes he writ about 'em showed he did. When our little Alice died I started out for Mr.
They were very grand verses, no doubt, although Miss Fotheringay did not understand them; but old Cos, with a wink and a knowing finger on his nose, said, "Put them up with th' other letthers, Milly darling. Poldoody's pomes was nothing to this." So Milly locked up the manuscripts. When then, the Major being dressed and presentable, presented himself to Mrs.
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