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"Yes, the Nodding Donkey will be a fine toy for Christmas," said Mr. Mugg, looking over the tops of his glasses at the new arrival. "This last box of playthings I received are the best we ever had. Santa Claus and his men certainly are preparing a fine Christmas this year." "I think I shall dust off the Donkey," said Geraldine. "He will be much shinier then, and look better."
Most of our townfolk were, naturally, the well-to-do, shading downward, but seldom reaching poverty. As playmate of the children I saw the homes of nearly every one, except a few immigrant New Yorkers, of whom none of us approved. The homes I saw impressed me, but did not overwhelm me. Many were bigger than mine, with newer and shinier things, but they did not seem to differ in kind.
His face had undergone the same change: its familiar look of worn optimism had been, as it were, done up to match his clothes, as though a sort of moral cosmetic had made him pinker, shinier and sprightlier without really rejuvenating him. A thin veil of high spirits had merely been drawn over his face, as the shining strands of hair were skilfully brushed over his baldness. "Here!
A Hindu boy was matched against a white one, a couple of wrestlers came next, and then two English sailors, with more spirit than skill, had a set-to which warmed the audience into enthusiasm and ended amid shouts, whistles, shrill cat-calls, and thunders of applause. Meanwhile the heat grew more and more intense, the faces shinier, the air more and more smoke-laden and heavy.
If there is any commodity of softer gloss than common, or one shinier to the eye so that your poverty frets you it is displayed here. In the window of the haberdasher, shirts mere torsos with not a leg below or head above yet disport themselves in gay neckwear. Despite their dismemberment they are tricked to the latest turn of fashion. Can vanity survive such general amputation?
"Why, why," he shouted, "he's getting shinier every minute and his mane's growing longer and longer." From that moment he regarded Hugh as a man and a brother. But Lynn had got to business. "No," she said when offered a chair "oh, no, thank you, we can't stay Miss Bibby doesn't know we've come. But will you please deal with Larkin?" "Deal with Larkin?" Hugh repeated.
"Er-this one is a little shinier than that one?" "Perhaps the finish is a little higher," ventured the saleslady. "Sh-shinier," said Jethro. "Yes, shinier, if you please to call it so." "W-what would you call it?" By this time the saleslady had become quite hysterical, and altogether incapable of performing her duties.
His curved eagle nose was grown thinner, his long coat shinier, his look more haggard, his corkscrew earlocks were more matted, and when he spoke his voice was a tone more raucous. He wore his high hat a tall cylinder that reminded one of a weather-beaten turret. The Shalotten Shammos explained briefly what he had done.
She rose to examine the mountains, strolled away, darted down a gully, and pounced on Milt Daggett with: "How in heaven's name " "Found out where you-all were going. Look! Got a bug! Rented it. Come on! Let's duck! Drive back with me!" At the end of the gully was a new Teal bug, shinier than the ancient lost chariot, but equally gay and uncomfortable. "Can't. Like to, but Be awfully rude to them.
"Er-this one is a little shinier than that one?" "Perhaps the finish is a little higher," ventured the saleslady. "Sh-shinier," said Jethro. "Yes, shinier, if you please to call it so." "W-what would you call it?" By this time the saleslady had become quite hysterical, and altogether incapable of performing her duties.
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