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"Just look at him, mamma, stretched out on the sofa there like he was a king!" Full flung and from a tufted leather couch Isadore Binswanger turned on his pillow, flashing his dark eyes and white teeth full upon her. "Go chase yourself, Blackey!" "Blackey! Let me just tell you, Mr. Smarty, that alongside of you I'm so blond I'm dizzy." "Come and give your big brother a French kiss, Blackey."
"Bah, then, smarty Straw-nose!" he cried; "you are a beast. How dare you lay hands on me, a Frenchman?" "Because you would not obey orders," Napoleon replied. "Was not I in command?" "You!" sneered Bouquet; "and who are you to command? A runaway Corsican, a brigand, and the son of a brigand, like all Corsicans." "My father is not a brigand," returned Napoleon.
I chased Blackie about four licks' worth. Hurry up and let's get it over with. You know it ain't pleasant for either of us!" "Smarty!" yelled Duke, quick to read in Belle's face what softening effect Lance had on her temper. "Tryin' to be smart tryin' to be George Wash'nton! You little liar, you know you chased Blackie more'n what I done. Sneak out of it yeah, that's you, every time.
F. said that The Phenix would be just the name for it, because it would give the idea of a resurrection from its dead ashes in a new and undreamed of condition of splendor; but some low-priced smarty on one of the dailies suggested that we call it the Lazarus; and inasmuch as the people were not profound in Scriptural matters but thought the resurrected Lazarus and the dilapidated mendicant that begged in the rich man's gateway were one and the same person, the name became the laughing stock of the town, and killed the paper for good and all.
There was money, too. Yes, the professor was well enough fixed. I says: "Tom Sawyer, this ain't no welkin, it's a balloon." "Well, now, who SAID it was a welkin, smarty?" "You've wrote it on the letter, anyway." "What of it? That don't mean that the balloon's the welkin." "Oh, I thought it did. Well, then, what is a welkin?" I see in a minute he was stuck.
I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to." "Well why don't you DO it? You SAY you can do it." "Well I WILL, if you fool with me." "Oh yes I've seen whole families in the same fix." "Smarty! You think you're SOME, now, DON'T you? Oh, what a hat!" "You can lump that hat if you don't like it. I dare you to knock it off and anybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs."
Then he got a taste for education, and became the smarty of the factory, and the boys who could not read called him 'snuff, because his hair and freckles were the color of Scotch snuff.
"You can't sass him," said Pepsy, "because he uses big words and he's such a smarty and he makes you feel silly and then you begin to cry and get mad. When he says I'm an orphan and things and things Wiggle hates him, too, don't you, Wiggle?" The girl was almost crying then and Pee-wee comforted her. "Do you think I don't know any long words?" he said.
They belonged to some infantry regiment of the division, but personally I didn't know them. They were both fool drunk. On reaching our line of battle they stopped, but kept in their saddles, pulling their horses about, playing "smarty," and grinning and chattering like a brace of young monkeys.
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