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One represented Riel, another his Satanic Majesty, while the third was supposed to indicate myself. He moved these three pegs about-very much after the fashion of a thimble-rigger; and I seemed to have, through my peg, about as bad a time of it as the pea under the thimble usually experiences.
"Well," said I, "I have been called a lord in my time." "It must have been by a thimble-rigger, then," said the coachman, bending back, and half-turning his face round with a broad leer. "You have hit the mark wonderfully," said I. "You coachmen, whatever else you may be, are certainly no fools." "We a'n't, a'n't we?" said the coachman.
After this he begins to indulge somewhat in the dramatic. The meeting with the pickpocket as a thimble-rigger at Greenwich might pass muster were it not for the rencontre with the apple-woman's son near Salisbury. The Dingle episode may be accepted, for Mr John Sampson has verified even the famous thunder-storm by means of the local press.
And in general, Shaw's humor is like that of a shell-man at a country fair a thimble-rigger. No matter where you guess that he has placed the bean, you will be always wrong. Even though you swear that you have seen him slip it under, it's but his cunning to lead you off. But Murray was not that kind. It would stand at its post, unhitched, like a family horse. Here was quandary.
I talk to nobody about 'orses except lords. 'Well, said I, 'I have been called a lord in my time. 'It must have been by a thimble-rigger, then, said the coachman, bending back, and half turning his face round with a broad leer. 'You have hit the mark wonderfully, said I. 'You coachmen, whatever else you may be, are certainly no fools. 'We ain't, ain't we? said the coachman.
Hence the chequered career of the thimble-rigger. Had the municipality been seized by open force, there might have been complaint, it would not have aroused the same lasting grudge. This grudge was an ill gift to bring to Brandeis, who had trouble enough in front of him without.
The Goddess took her Mocha in the Feathers, and a Music Teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful chasm between Dorothy and Chopin. Dinner had been moved up to Milking Time. Sweetbreads and Artichokes came into the Lives of the Trio thus favored by Fortune. One day the busy Thimble-Rigger took his Helpmate into the lonesome Library and broke the glad Tidings to her.
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