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As his characters are such as he must meet with every day in his native town, so also the scenery and surroundings of his allegory are part of his own everyday life, and reproduce what he had been brought up amidst in his native county, or had noticed in his tinker's wanderings.
"For God's sake stop asking me questions or I'll cut loose and turn the air blue round here." "There ain't a feller living that can fight Mack on a week of training," declared the seaman. "No one said he'd had no more'n a week of training." "I don't give a tinker's dam if he's had all the training in creation, he can't lick Mack McGowan and do it fair." Jud shot the Captain a look of approval.
Thus did Stoutheart, a knight of to-day, pay tribute to the world he left behind him, when he felt in his exploring knees, now creeping along the bottom of the Tinker's Pot, that there was a chance of his leaving it behind forever. "I don't see what else he could have done," said Tanpa, the Guardian, her fingers hysterically interlocking.
A half-grown moon lighted the feast for them, for Patsy took an occasional mouthful at the tinker's insistence that dining alone was a miserably unsociable affair. "To watch ye eat that pâté de fois gras a body would think ye had been reared on them. Honest, now, have ye ever tasted one before in your life?" "I have." "Then ye have sat at rich men's tables?"
Is man the friend, or is he the patron only? Have they indeed forgotten nature's voice? or are those moments snatched from courtiership when they touch noses with the tinker's mongrel, the brief reward and pleasure of their artificial lives?
His spelling of the word "ferfull" shows that the New England pronunciation of that word had been brought from the old country. He also uses the word "creatures" for kine, and the like, precisely as our farmers do now. Tinker's modesty is most creditable to him, and we wish it were more common now.
"I burned it that night in the cottage to fool the sheriff." "And I thought that night it was me ye had tricked just for the whim of it. Did ye know who I was by chance?" "Of course I knew. I had seen you with the Irish Players many, many times, and I knew you the very moment your voice came over the road to me wishing me 'a brave day." The tinker's eyes deepened with tenderness.
Joey made his obeisance, and departed as if he was frightened, Miss Melissa watched him: at last she thought, "Tinker or no tinker? that is the question. No tinker, for a cool hundred, as my father would say; for, no tinker's boy, no tinker; and that is no tinker's boy. How clever of him to say that the letter was given him by a gentleman!
"To the best of her ability yes but I didn't mind her silly talk." "Gee, but I'd love to give her a bouquet of poison ivy!" "We had an awful quarrel " "And you stood up for me?" "You know I did!" "All right, I don't give a tinker's damn what anybody says if you stand by me! In all this world there's just you for me. There's never been anybody else and there never will be. I'm that kind."
It's a dam'd puir life to leave, an' while it maybe is a woman's lot in life to sell hersel' for ease and comfort, it's a' bad for her when she does it in a way that the world says is a wrang way; for she soon finds that her life isna worth a tinker's curse. She sells hersel' an' it's no worth while complainin' if the bargain turns oot a rotten yin.
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