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Updated: May 11, 2025
Josiah sez snappishly, "What you mean by bringin' that old chestnut up I cant see." "Well," sez I, "I shan't sew the moral on any tighter." But he kep' on ignorin' my sarcastick allusion. "To keep up the train of almost miraclous incidents marchin' along through the past connecting the St.
Junius has sometimes made his satire felt, but let not injudicious admiration mistake the venom of the shaft for the vigour of the bow. He has sometimes sported with lucky malice; but to him that knows his company, it is not hard to be sarcastick in a mask. While he walks, like Jack the giant-killer, in a coat of darkness, he may do much mischief with little strength.
Every one of these virtuosos looked on all his associates as wretches of depraved taste and narrow notions. Their conversation was, therefore, fretful and waspish, their behaviour brutal, their merriment bluntly sarcastick, and their seriousness gloomy and suspicious.
And then, we have to look sharp if we cut down the money for the Indian schools." Says I, in a sarcastick tone, "I s'pose you worked hard for that." "Yes," says he, in a sort of a proud tone. "We did, but we men don't begrudge labor if we can advance measures of economy. You see, it was taking sights of money just to Christianize and civilize Injuns savages.
The road is thirty milds long, and if we tried it we shouldn't git here till they had done blowin'." "I hain't no idee of tryin' it, Josiah, I wuz only revellin' in the idee of what the glory of the sight must be." "Well," sez he, "I am revellin' in the idee of havin' a good meat dinner if we ever git to Hilo." And he added with a sarcastick smile, "Don't that make you think of poker?
Silence having ensued, he proceeded: 'We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him. Mr. Gibbon muttered, in a low tone of voice, 'I should not like to trust myself with YOU. This piece of sarcastick pleasantry was a prudent resolution, if applied to a competition of abilities.
He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastick wit, and such a variety of degrading images, of every one of which I was the object, that, though I can bear such attacks as well as most men, I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company, that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort.
He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastick wit, and such a variety of degrading images, of every one of which I was the object, that, though I can bear such attacks as well as most men, I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company, that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort.
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