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"You remember me! and this is my dear good man!" "What! Mark the Poet?" said the curate of Lansmere, with a smile. "Come to write squibs for the election?" "Squibs, sir!" cried Mark, indignantly. "Burns wrote squibs," said the curate, mildly. Mark made no answer, but again knocked at the door.
Contemptuous and serene amid the hootings of the mob and the squibs of the newspapers, he carries, as he has done for years, Her Majesty's shawl and capacious India-rubbers, attends her tramps through the Highlands and the Home Park, engineers her special trains and looks after her personal comfort even to the extent of ordering her to wear "mair claes" in a Scotch mist.
The message, written in a flowing feminine hand, was brief, and Mrs. Grundy herself could have taken no exception to it. "'Squibs, one penny weekly, buy it," it ran. All the mellowing effects of a good dinner passed away from Roland. He was feverishly irritated. He paid his bill and left the place. A visit to a neighboring music-hall occurred to him as a suitable sedative.
As our hero and Gascoigne were not Italians, they thought that bribery would be the more English-like way of doing the thing; so they composed a letter, to be delivered by Mesty to the friar, in which Jack offered to Father Thomaso the moderate sum of one thousand dollars, provided he would allow the marriage to proceed, and not frighten the old lady with ecclesiastical squibs and crackers.
The newspapers no longer published squibs as they once had done. The days of the Hooks and Moores had gone by; there was nobody to do with the pen what H. B. did with the pencil. So "Punch" was at once a novelty and a necessity, from its width of scope, its joint pictorial and literary character, and its exclusive devotion to the comic features of the age.
Upon their return to headquarters, men were covering the front with sheets of coral limestone, two balls having passed through the house in the interval. Mataafa sat within, over his kava bowl, unmoved. The picture is of a piece throughout: excellent courage, super-excellent folly, a war of school-children; expensive guns and cartridges used like squibs or catherine-wheels on Guy Fawkes's Day.
Nobody could accuse Mr. Petheram of lack of energy. What he wanted Roland to concentrate himself upon was the supplying of capital for ingenious advertising schemes. "How would it be," he asked one morning he always began his remarks with, "How would it be?" "if we paid a man to walk down Piccadilly in white skin-tights with the word 'Squibs' painted in red letters across his chest?"
I don't like Ehud's style of doing business, Sir. Don't meddle with these fellows, Sir. They are read mostly by persons whom you would not reach, if you were to write ever so much. Let 'em alone. A man whose opinions are not attacked is beneath contempt. I hope so, I said. I got three pamphlets and innumerable squibs flung at my head for attacking one of the pseudo-sciences, in former years.
I tell you in confidence, one by itself would not pay; and I am a printer, sir, and it is on my conscience to tell you I have, in the course of business, been compelled this very morning to receive orders for the printing of various squibs and, I much fear, scurrilous things. My father pacified him. 'You will do your duty to your family, Mr. Hickson.
Ignorant as I was of the force of gunpowder, it was with astonishment, mingled with horror, that I beheld, in a second, the claret case rise up as if it had wings, and Mr O'Gallagher thrown up to the ceiling enveloped in a cloud of smoke, the crackers and squibs fizzing and banging, while the boys in the school uttered a yell of consternation and fear as they rushed from from the explosion, and afterwards, tumbling over one another, made their escape from the school-room.
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