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He calls it by name, Bali Isit; and as soon as Isit calls in reply, he pours out a long-winded address, charging him to convey to Bali Penyalong his prayer for recovery or protection. Then he snips off the head of the chicken, and wipes some of its blood on the frayed sticks and on the ring.
"No, verehrtester Herr Herausgeber, in no wise! And now let the sympathizing reader judge of our feeling when, in place of this same Autobiography with "fullest insight," we find Six considerable PAPER-BAGS, carefully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginning at Libra; in the inside of which sealed Bags lie miscellaneous masses of Sheets, and oftener Shreds and Snips, written in Professor Teufelsdrockh's scarce legible cursiv-schrift; and treating of all imaginable things under the Zodiac and above it, but of his own personal history only at rare intervals, and then in the most enigmatic manner.
I was none the less miserable, either, the following morning, when all the boys were rigged out in their best and inspected by the captain; for the tailor, true to the character of all `snips' since the days when Adam started in that line with his fig-leaf costume, never sent on board, as he promised, the uniforms of us unfortunate novices, so we could neither make a decent appearance with the rest of our comrades, nor have permission to go ashore `unclothed' scarecrows, as some of us were, would have seemed queer fish to come from a well-ordered ship.
He made a great feint of lunging after her, and she dodged behind her mother's rocking-chair, tilting it sharply. "Children!" "Mamma, don't you let him touch me!" "You you little imp, you!" "Children!" "I tell you, ma, that kid's getting too fresh." "You spoil her, Izzy, more as any one." "It's those yellow novels, and that gang of drugstore snips you let her run with will be her ruination.
On the east coast of this sea, between Siraff and Mascat, is a place called Nasir Bani al Sasack, and an island called Ebn Kahowan, and in this sea there are rocks called Oman, and a narrow strait called Dordur between two rocks, through which ships often venture to pass, but the Chinese snips dare not. There are also two rocks called Kossir and Howare, which scarce appear above the water's edge.
She tried so hard to be willing that she did not speak at first. "'Open and shet is a sign of more wet!" cried Barbara. "I don't believe there ever was a family that had so much opening and shetting! We just get a little squeak out of a crack, and it goes together again and snips our noses!" "What is a 'squeak' out of a crack?" said Rosamond, laughing. "A mouse pinched in it, I should think."
Sheridan had lost color, and temper, too. He glared over his shoulder at his son as the latter handed the bag to Gurney. "You go on back to your work," he said. "I've had worse snips than that from a pencil-sharpener." "Oh no, you haven't!" said Gurney. "I have, too!" Sheridan retorted, angrily. "Bibbs, you go on back to your work.
So when I had her nearly undressed, we were talking about this and that, and you amongst 'em and I, you know, rather like you, sir, if you'll not think me too bold she started off by asking me what was the nickname people gave to tailors. It was one of her whims. I told her they were called snips I'm off! Polly gave a shriek. The horse had reared as if violently stung. 'Go on, said Evan.
Presently an Aid came galloping along the middle of the road, calling upon the men to make way for him. His horse's hoofs threw the mud in every direction, and Si caught a heavy spatter directly in his face. "Confound them snips of Aids," said he angrily, as he wiped the mud off. "Put on more airs than if they was old Gen. Scott himself. Always pretend to be in such a powerful hurry.
Seven A.M. In the cars, at Jersey City. Much fuss with tickets, which one man scribbles over, another snips, and a third "makes note on." Partake of refreshment, in the gloom of a very large and dirty depot. Think that my sandwiches would be more relishing without so strong a flavor of napkin, and my gingerbread more easy of consumption if it had not been pulverized by being sat upon.
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