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"Muffins sound so very good in Dickens, you know," she explained to Mrs. Ashe; "and I never saw a sole." The soles when they came proved to be nice little pan-fish, not unlike what in New England are called "scup." All the party took kindly to them; but the muffins were a great disappointment, tough and tasteless, with a flavor about them as of scorched flannel.
She says like that, she should give it to me, but my mamma she says, 'No, birds is foolishness. But I know what is a bird. He scups on a stick in a cage." "So he does," agreed Miss Bailey, rightly inferring from Morris's expressive pantomime that to "scup" was to swing. "But sometimes he flies up into the sky in the country, as I was reading to you. Were you ever in the country?"
Oh, I like it very much." "Would you like to have one?" "Yes, indeed I should, very much." "Well, what'll you give me, if I'll fix you out?" "I don't know," said Ellen, "I have nothing to give; I'll be very much obliged to you, indeed." "Well now, come I'll make a bargain with you: I'll engage to fix up a scup for you, if you'll give me a kiss." Poor Ellen was struck dumb.
True to the national proclivity for clipping names, the fishermen of Rhode Island appeal to him by the first syllable only of his Indian one, for in the waters thereabout he is talked of by the familiar abbreviation, Scup.
He went on throwing the wood out of the cart, and Ellen stood looking at him. "What'll you give me if I'll make you a scup one of these days?" said Mr. Van Brunt. "A scup!" said Ellen. "Yes a scup! how would you like it?" "I don't know what it is." said Ellen. "A scup! may be you don't know it by that name; some folks call it a swing." "A swing! oh, yes," said Ellen, "now I know.
Eastward he swims as "scup," while at the Manhattan end of the Sound he is fried as "porgie." And apropos of him, let us note a curious instance of the tenacity of associated ideas. The street boys of our day and early home were wont to term the hetairai of the public walks "scup." Here now is a bit of slang which may fairly be warranted to keep fresh in any climate.
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