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Updated: June 18, 2025
The burning pipe drops from his mouth! Then rises a wild yell an awful, horrible report! The earth quakes and trembles, as if about to open, to vomit forth the burning stream of a thundering crater. The sky seems blackened by the fearful smoke which fills the air far and wide.
Similarly with the inhibition surrounding marriage, which is a stock subject of humor. The overearnest person dislikes this type of humor and reacts against it by calling it "in bad taste." The most interesting of the types of humor flirts with the disagreeable. Man is the only animal foreseeing death and disaster, and he not only quakes in the knowledge of misfortune, but also he jokes about it.
"It's a laugh you have at me in your cheek, whin I'd give years of my ill-spent life to watch the chimney smoke come curlin' up slow through the sharp air in the Valley there below." "There is no chimney and there is no smoke in all the Valley." "Before God, if you're a man, you'll put your hand on my arm and tell me what trouble quakes your speech."
Just then the orchestra broke out. Any man under thirty years of age who tells you he is not afraid of an English butler lies. He may not show his fear. Outwardly he may be brave aggressive even, perhaps to the extent of calling the great man 'Here! or 'Hi! But, in his heart, when he meets that, cold, blue, introspective eye, he quakes.
I have taken you already as far as I have witnesses to corroborate me beyond that you will have to trust my word alone." Her long lashes uplifted, the blue-gray eyes looking directly into my own. "What is all that firing?" she questioned. "The house fairly quakes; is it a battle?" "Yes; the contending forces have been gradually drawing nearer ever since daylight.
All the quakes that ever shook this crazy old earth are bagatelles compared with such facts." "Oh, cousin, you are such a tower of strength and comfort!" "I'm a leaning tower," replied the old lady, whose vein of humor ran through all her thoughts, "but I'm leaning on what won't fail me. Nestle down by my side, dear child. You are shivering, and this extra blanket will do us both good.
If Julia was really nervous, the laugh and merry-making that followed her naïve remark must certainly have dispelled the quakes, for presently she was shaking with laughter rather than with nerves. "But the crabs!" insisted Grace. "Let's draw for them," and she dragged the girls over to a little terrace where they unceremoniously squatted down.
Appearing already to have caught the universal feeling of western people regarding the matter of "quakes," he chuckled, in contemplation of his own perspicacity, and calmly resumed his recumbent attitude, and his nap. The summit of the Sierras was reached within about two days from the commencement of the ascent.
The last severe shock was in January, 1900, when the St. Nicholas Hotel was badly damaged. These were the heaviest shocks. On the other hand, light shocks, as above said, have been frequent. Probably the sensible quakes have averaged three or four a year.
Then they came to the straits by Lilybaeum, and saw Sicily, the three-cornered island, under which Enceladus the giant lies groaning day and night, and when he turns the earth quakes, and his breath bursts out in roaring flames from the highest cone of AEtna, above the chestnut woods.
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