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Updated: May 5, 2025
Hawaiians believe in "little people" that live in deep woods and peep and snicker at travellers who pass. This belief is thought to go back to the earliest times, and to hint at the smallness of the original Hawaiians, for one may take with a grain of salt these tales of the giant size of their kings and fighters.
Such gates combine the greatest weight with the least possible exercise of man's inventive faculties, and are named, not too subtly, the Armstrong gate. This, indeed, is the American beauty of ranch humour, a flower of imperishable fragrance handed to the visitor who does the lifting with guarded drollery or triumphant snicker, as may be.
And then I told him that an officer should teach an enlisted man not to snicker at his wife, and not to call her "Sorr," which was disrespectful. I wanted to say more, but Faye suddenly left the room. The post is not at all as you and I had imagined it to be. There is no high wall around it as there is at Fort Trumbull.
The people looking in add insult to injury by indulging in an audible snicker, as Ching-We springs up and glares savagely into their faces.
Showing his teeth in that twitching snicker that contracted the muscles of his upper lip: "Children!" he said, looking at her. She turned scarlet to her hair; the deliberate grossness stunned her. Confused, she stood confronting him, dumb under a retort the coarseness of which she had never dreamed him capable. "I mean what I say," he repeated calmly.
In the deep moss I tread as with muffled feet, and the pupils of my eyes dilate in the dim, almost religious light. The irreverent red squirrels, however, run and snicker at my approach, or mock the solitude with their ridiculous chattering and frisking. This nook is the chosen haunt of the winter wren. This is the only place and these the only woods in which I find him in this vicinity.
"No, no; ton't shoot!" screamed Hans. Then he fell on his knees in despair. Tom could scarcely keep from laughing at the sight, and a snicker or two could be heard coming from where Frank, Dick, and the others were concealed behind the bushes. But the German youth was too terrorized to notice anything but that awful red man before him, with his hideous war-paint of blue and yellow.
Such a to-do as they make over the matter you never saw; you would think it was the first successful joke since the Deluge. This is the way they twang on their harp of a thousand strings. At breakfast, this morning, when Jack passed me the corn-bread, I said innocently, 'Why, what have we here? 'It is manna that fell in the night, answered Jack, with an exasperating snicker.
"Right on this farm, in fact," replied the other, with a wide grin. "Think of the nerve of this learned scientist bringing this here, and telling that it represented the results of years of difficult research? You don't wonder, now, that I just had to snicker, do you, Andy?" "That looks bad, don't it Frank?"
More and more frequent came the scrape of a foot along the floor, or the brief cough of perturbation. One or two very daring young men leaned over and made some remark in privacy, behind the back of the hand, this followed by a nudge and a knowing look, perhaps even by a snicker, the latter quickly suppressed. Little by little these bursts of courage had their effect.
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