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Updated: June 13, 2025
Moreover, being only mortal and afflicted with a hearty appetite, Bruce loved the food and other delicacies the men were forever offering him as a variation on the stodgy fare dished out to him and his fellow war-dogs.
About half way through I shall be engaged, and in the last page of all I'll scribble a few words in my wedding-dress before I go on to church, for that will be the end of Una Sackville, and there will be nothing more to write after that. It's very nice to be married, of course, but stodgy there's no more excitement. There has been plenty of excitement to-day, at any rate.
But always there were the shining eyes of the watching dogs, growling, if one came too near, and outside the stodgy sentries; and above all, much light. So we determined to volunteer for work, figuring that they were so short of men that they would not lightly refuse us. It so happened that ten men were asked for that Saturday to hoe turnips on a near-by farm.
"All right." "It'll give an interest to a rotten match," said Dick. Tom rose to a point of order. "There's one objection. You, being a stodgy sort of bat, and having a habit of sitting on the splice, always get put in first. I'm a hitter, so they generally shove me in about fourth wicket.
"You wish that?" he inquired. "Yes," she answered, "I find the exercise beneficial; I have had too much pudding lately." He looked politely surprised, and she went on to explain. "It is very wholesome," she said, "but a bit stodgy; I think it is too really good to be taken in such large quantities by any one like me.
Men recall with pride the branches of their family that belong to England or the English counties where they were rooted; and there are enthusiasms for English literature and history which are as spontaneous as patriotism itself. Something of this may be put down to a certain promptitude and flexibility in all American kindness, which is never sufficiently stodgy to be called good nature.
"Well, it isn't young," persisted Johnny. "Good thing for you, Johnny, if it is a girl," thought Jack Herring. "Somebody for you to play with. I often feel sorry for you, having nobody but grown-up people to talk to." "They do get a bit stodgy after a certain age," agreed the Babe. "I am hoping," said Peter, "it will be some sensible, pleasant woman, a little over thirty.
There was nothing so "stodgy" as children in the vision. When the worst came to the worst, she had been consoled by the thought that she had really managed the whole thing very cleverly. It was easier, of course, to so arrange such things in modern days and in town.
Henceforth, when she speaks, down fall toads and snakes her words are cold as she is, they may glitter but they sting. Fairy- and folk-tales give wholesome food to the desire for adventure, whereas in what we may call realistic stories, adventure is chiefly confined to the naughty child, who is therefore more attractive than the good and stodgy. Even among fairy-tales we may select.
Behind every assent to excellence one feels a reservation: yes, it is good enough for a novel! Not thus does he treat the stodgy play in stodgier verse, the merits of which, after all, may amount to this, that in appearance it is literary; not thus the critical essay or investigation that too often is like the parasite whose sustaining life comes from the greater life on which it feeds.
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