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Updated: July 7, 2025
"It was in that vest-pocket. But it didn't have no name on it." "Then, that," put in the Reverend Peter Prentice, "was the scrawled nonsense " "Which you er threw into the waste-basket," drawled Average Jones with a smile. "Those were not Bailey's clothes at all?" "The coat was his; not the waistcoat. His waistcoat may have fallen out of the buggy, or it may be there yet."
But the next time you come you mustn't have any business; at least, nothing more important than entertaining me and that is important. Just jot that down in your little vest-pocket memorandum, and don't allow yourself to forget it for a single moment; not even while you are making love to Little Brown-Eyes. Good-night."
His story was this: He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with laudanum.
His self-respecting stomach rebels, and expresses its indignation by indigestion. Then man has to go through life with a little bottle of pepsin tablets in his vest-pocket. He is but another victim to this craze for speed. Hurry means the breakdown of the nerves. It is the royal road to nervous prostration.
And the instant she touched the pavement, the Snimmy gave a great gulping sob and hid his face in his hands; and small, grainy tears the size of gum-drops began to trickle through them and fall into his vest-pocket. The Echo of the Plynck in the water gave a rippling laugh of relief. "Well," she said, "it's a mercy you remembered that.
So I went back and asked for ten cents. Instead of taking it out of his vest-pocket, father opened his pocket-book and said, "Did you say you wanted ten dollars or ten cents, my boy?" "Why, father," said I, "whoever heard of paying ten dollars for needles and thread?" "I have," said he. "I once heard of a paper of needles, and a skein of silk, worth more than ten dollars."
Laurie took a curious little object out of his vest-pocket, and laying it in the palm of his hand, said, "There's a beetle that is thousands of years old;" and then, while the lads examined the queer stone-bug, that looked so old and gray, he told them how it came out of the wrappings of a mummy, after lying for ages in a famous tomb.
I was jest a thinkin' this, and a thinkin' that though I had jest told Josiah, from a sense of duty, that "he had broke that pocket down by luggin' round so much stuff in it, and there was no sense in actin' as if he could carry round a hull car-load of things in his vest-pocket;" though I had spoken to him thus, from a sense of duty, tryin' to keep him straight and upright in his demeaner, still, I was a thinkin' how pleasant it wuz to work for them you loved, and that loved you: for though he had snapped me up considerable snappish, and said "he should carry round in his pockets as much as he was a minter; and if I didn't want to mend it, I could let it alone," and had throwed it down in the corner, and slammed the door considerable hard when he went out, still, I knew that this slight pettishness was only the light bubbles that rises above the sparkling wine.
Here, too, is a little vest-pocket gun that was found under such circumstances as would be likely to connect Forbes in the popular mind with the shootings." "My lawyer has my statement about that. I'll read " "No, Forbes," interrupted Garrick. "You needn't read. Your lawyer may be interested to add this to the statement, however.
"O well, give me a card of yours," said the captain; "you needn't bother to write; I keep M'Intyre and Spittal in my vest-pocket." Boast for boast; it was always thus with Nares and Pinkerton the two vainest men of my acquaintance. And having thus reinstated himself in his own opinion, the captain rose, and, with a couple of his stiff nods, departed.
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