Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
"I'll give you a prime character as a drover or a ploughman or a carter or a dairyman or a housemaid or a curate or anything you like except a looker. Why should I give you eighteen shillun a week as my looker twenty shillun, as I've made it now when my best wether could do what you do quite as well and not take a penny for it? You've got no more sense or know than a tup ..."
"Let's wake them up," Menie whispered back. Then the twins began to bark. "Ki-yi, ki-yi, ki-yi, ki-yi," just like little dogs! Nip and Tup began to yelp, too. The snores and the yelps met in the middle of the tunnel and the two together made such a dreadful sound that Koko woke up at once. When he heard four barks he knew right away that it must be the twins and the little dogs.
My! how he did flop around on the ice! Nip and Tup were scared. They ran for home at the first flop. "Let's go home now," said Monnie. "I want to show my fine big fish to Mother." But Menie said, "Wait a little longer till I catch one! I'll give you one eye out of my fish if you will." Monnie waited. She put another piece of meat on her hook and dropped it again into the hole.
Prithee, quoth Panurge, take heed thyself, dear frater, lest, till monks have leave to marry, thou weddest something thou dostn't like, as some cat-o'-nine-tails or the quartan ague; if thou dost, may I never come safe and sound out of this hypogeum, this subterranean cave, if I don't tup and ram that disease merely for the sake of making thee a cornuted, corniferous property; otherwise I fancy the quartan ague is but an indifferent bedfellow.
Monnie named the doll Annadore, and she loved it dearly. Koolee dressed Annadore in fur, with tiny kamiks of sealskin, and Monnie carried her doll in her hood, just the way Koko's mother carried her baby. For Menie, his father made dog harnesses out of walrus hide. He made them just the right size for Nip and Tup. Menie harnessed the little dogs to his sled.
Koko tried to say, "Your hand isn't over my mouth," and Menie tried to say, "It's over mine!" but he could only say, "M-m-m," because she held on so tight! Koko's mother was making so much noise herself that she wouldn't have heard what either one said anyway. The baby woke up and whimpered. Nip and Tup woke up and barked like everything.
Great splashes of red color came up in the sky over the place where it had been. Still the twins sat patiently by their holes. It grew darker and darker. The colors faded. The stars began to twinkle, but the twins did not move. Nip and Tup ran races on the ice, and rolled over each other and barked. At last all of a sudden there was a fearful jerk on Monnie's line! It took her by surprise.
Menie screamed again and again. At the third scream he saw his father straighten up, shade his eyes with his hand, and look out to sea. "Oh," Menie thought. "What if he shouldn't see me!" He shouted louder than ever! He waved his arms! He even pinched the tails of Nip and Tup and made them bark. Then he saw his father wave his hand and dive into the tunnel.
Some of the country folks assembled, and our party was enlivened by the squeaks of the wenches and the long-protracted Eh, eh's! by which a Teviotdale tup testifies his wonder. April 18. I felt the impatience of news so much that I walked up to Mr. Laidlaw, surely for no other purpose than to talk politics. This interrupted Boney a little.
Well, this bargain shall be made between you and me, friend and neighbour; we will get a pair of scales, then you Robin Mutton shall be put into one of them, and Tup Robin into the other. Now I will hold you a peck of Busch oysters that in weight, value, and price he shall outdo you, and you shall be found light in the very numerical manner as when you shall be hanged and suspended.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking