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The young lady teachers "showed off" bending sweetly over pupils that were lately being boxed, lifting pretty warning fingers at bad little boys and patting good ones lovingly. The little girls "showed off" in various ways, and the little boys "showed off" with such diligence that the air was thick with paper wads and the murmur of scufflings.
One took off my hat rim clean to my brow; another razed the Lieutenant's left boot, by slicing off the heel; a third shot killed my powder-monkey without touching him." "How, Jack?" "It whizzed the poor babe dead. He was seated on a cheese of wads at the time, and after the dust of the pow-dered bulwarks had blown away, I noticed he yet sat still, his eyes wide open.
He has an idea that his miserable little journalistic misfit is "making the town" and is entitled to great wads of gratitude that should his towline break the whole community would go awhooping to hades, the bottom would fall out of realty values and the streets be overgrown with Johnson grass.
Yet with a pluck that had always characterized him, Job stuck to his books and sat among the crowd of little youngsters who automatically recited the multiplication table when the teacher was looking, and threw paper wads when she was not. Jane was there, copying minutely in dress and manner after Miss Bright, the new teacher, whom she greatly admired.
"Have you met him yet?" asked Mrs. Billy, after a pause. "Not yet," he answered. "He's a character," said she. "I've heard Davy tell about the first time he struck New York as a miner, with huge wads of greenbacks in his pockets. He spent his money like a 'coal-oil Johnny, as the phrase is a hundred-dollar bill for a shine, and that sort of thing.
There was a deafening uproar, hats were tossed ceilingward, and great wads of money were passed out by the "trusted cashier" to indifferent millionaires. Felix wanted to rush in and bet at once on something if he waited it might be too late. Was it necessary to be introduced to the cashier? No? Would he take the bet? All right, but
Now here's old Rocky on exactly the same subject: "DEAREST AUNT ISABEL, How can I ever thank you enough for giving me the opportunity to live in this astounding city! New York seems more wonderful every day. "Fifth Avenue is at its best, of course, just now. The dresses are magnificent!" Wads of stuff about the dresses. I didn't know Jeeves was such an authority.
The critics and politicians, and especially the philanthropists, have chewed them, till they are mere wads of syllable-fibre, without a suggestion of their old pungency and power. Justice! A good man respects the rights even of brute matter and arbitrary symbols.
The house that was to be honoured by our presence had been carefully scrubbed, swept, and garnished; the women had put on their most flowery calico dresses, and tied their hair up in their brightest silk handkerchiefs; most of the children's faces had been painfully washed and polished with soap, water, and wads of fibrous hemp; the whole village had been laid under contribution to obtain the requisite number of plates, cups, and spoons, for our supper-table, while offerings of ducks, reindeer-tongues, blueberries, and clotted cream poured in upon us with a profusion which testified to the good-will and hospitality of the inhabitants, as well as to their ready appreciation of tired travellers' wants.
"We'll give 'em a broadside, to be sure, if we die for it!" We turned to with a will, and before nightfall had nearly half the battery overhauled and ready for service. To keep the artillery dry we stuffed wads of loose hemp into the muzzles, and fitted wooden pegs to the touch-holes. At recess the next noon the Centipedes met in a corner of the school-yard to talk over the proposed lark.
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