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As we set off through a drizzling rain, trudging behind the cart, a double rainbow shone, which I took for an omen. Presently we came to a rest camp, where we told our sad story of empty tummies, and were put up for the night. A Jock all Highlanders are called Jock looked after us. Next morning we started out afresh in a motor lorry and finished at a Y.M.C.A. tent, where we stayed two nights.
We sold some old-fashioned dishes, and a little bit of cranberry bog for twenty-five dollars. We didn't have any other money." "But you must have had something to live on. You can't make bricks without straw, or grow little girls up without nourishing food in their tummies."
Here we've reached Utopia and you don't admit it." "Utopia!" "Certainly. Take a poll. You'll find nineteen people out of twenty happy with things just the way they are. They have full tummies and security, lots of leisure and trank pills to make matters seem even rosier than they are and they're rather rosy already."
Each has his particular chair, which to his own self-centered mind is his private pedestal. They sit here with their manicured hands resting idly on their robust, waistcoated tummies and stare out on the world like little clay gods."
He talked as he watched, his lively features reflective of his impressions. "Oh, pretty! Right into their tummies! Right in the nose! La, la, la! But that's off and so's that! Tell Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh, beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes two smacks in the same spot! Humph! Tell Battery C that the trouble with that gun is worn rifling; that's why it's going short.
They have called Poverty beautiful, and they have found it very ugly; and they have called Money naught, and they have found it to be Power. They have found Sacrifice accepted, and then claimed by the selfish and mean, and even Love has not been all that was expected. The Pilgrims return. Their poor tummies, too, are empty, but no calf is killed for them, there is no feasting and no joy.
For several days the cubs watched her with interest, and then one day, it seems, they decided they ought to try and help their foster-mother; so wading in on their hind legs till the water covered their little round tummies, they would stand perfectly still until a fish would swim near.
But they would not any more than our tummies would "stay put." We then appreciated the necessity of the railings all over the ship, especially when we commenced to hit each side of the passage way in trying to step forward. Edward C. Wagner was jestingly remarking to Louis Glass that if he should fall, there would be broken "Glass."
Fortunately, however, the settled gloom of those round him exercised a restraining effect upon him at the table. It would have needed a far more plastered man to have been rollicking at such a gathering. I had told the Bassett that there were aching hearts in Brinkley Court, and it now looked probable that there would shortly be aching tummies.
He tapped the ground three times with his right foot, three times with his left, and three times, standing on his head. Then, after he had run to safety, there came as pretty an earthquake as ever you saw. It didn't kill all the million little Chinamen, but it threw them down on the ground, knocking the wind out of their million tummies completely.
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