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"Bless you, child, I'm going to take my turn," said the old lady, with a twinkle in her eye which indicated that her requisition on the generosity of Mrs. Snooks would mark a distinct advance in the education of that lady. "I'm going when Priscilla gets back." But, as it happened, Aunt Abigail was not called on to redeem her boast.
So I said even I have my bright ideas at times 'If it got down from Sevenoaks to Snooks, why not get it back from Snooks to Sevenoaks? And the long and the short of it is, dear, he couldn't refuse me, and he changed his spelling there and then to Senoks for the bills of the new lecture. And afterwards, when we are married, we shall put in the apostrophe and make it Se'noks.
To this day she is not sure whether she was introduced to Leonard or not, nor what she said to him. A sort of mental paralysis was upon her. Of all offensive surnames Snooks! Helen and Fanny were returning, there were civilities, and the young men were receding. By a great effort she controlled herself to face the inquiring eyes of her friends.
Finally they picked out a very stout and resolute little man in a large check suit. "If he isn't Snooks, he ought to be," said Miss Winchelsea. Presently the conductor discovered Helen's attempt at a corner in carriages. "Room for five," he bawled with a parallel translation on his fingers. A party of four together mother, father, and two daughters blundered in, all greatly excited.
But certainly she doesn't tell much about herself." However, further speculation regarding Estelle Brown was cut short, as orders came for the appearance of nearly the entire company in one of the plays. The first scene was to take place in a Southern town, and for the purpose a street had been constructed by Pop Snooks and his helpers.
Bellew and Pendyce"! And this would go down to fame in company with the pitiful stories she had read from time to time with a sort of offended interest; in company with "Snooks v. Snooks and Stiles," "Horaday v. Horaday," "Bethany v. Bethany and Sweetenham."
"I've been there," was Ruth's disappointing reply. "And I went down to Mrs. Snooks', too. I thought Aunt Abigail might have gone there to borrow something. You know she was so unwilling to give up the idea. But Mrs. Snooks was sitting out on the porch, and she said she hadn't seen her." The others had gathered around them as they stood talking.
But to say obey for ever and ever to say that Private John Styles is, by some physical disproportion, hopelessly inferior to Cornet Snooks to say that Snooks shall have honors, epaulets, and a marble tablet if he dies, and that Styles shall fight his fight, and have his twopence a day, and when shot down shall be shovelled into a hole with other Styleses, and so forgotten; and to think that we had in the course of the last war some 400,000 of these Styleses, and some 10,000, say, of the Snooks sort Styles being by nature exactly as honest, clever, and brave as Snooks and to think that the 400,000 should bear this, is the wonder!
He looked about the studio, at the groups of actors and actresses, at the camera men particularly at Russ. "Everybody here?" he went on. "All here," replied Pop Snooks, checking off a list he held. "How about your props?" "Nothing missing, not even the firecracker Miss Alice sets off under the chair of the false count," replied the property man. "Good! I don't want any failure at the last minute.
Occasionally they acted small parts. Carl Switzer was the German comedian, and was a first-rate actor in his line. His jollity proved an offset to the gloom of Mr. Sneed. Pop Snooks, the efficient property man, has already been mentioned. His work was easier when the company was on the road, as there the natural scenery was depended on to a great extent.
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