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Updated: June 9, 2025
She once endeavoured to teach me this art, would I but have listened. But that is past! I could not have thought it was in woman! The poor, wailing, watery-eyed beings I had before encountered would not suffer me to suppose a female could possess the high courage of the daring, noble mind. Never but one short moment did I overtop her: nor are there any means but those I then used.
"No such luck," answered the watery-eyed young man with an offhand attempt at familiarity. "I'm his Assistant name of Banner Wapshott's unwell." "I beg your pardon?" "Mr. Mr. Wapshott sends word that he's unwell." Under the Collector's eye the youth suddenly shifted his manner and became respectful. "I beg your pardon?" the Collector repeated slowly. "He 'sends word, do you say?
This time I come not as a deaf, cringing, watery-eyed old gardener" for an instant he was the gardener "but as one of your world, to which I was bred," and his shoulders, rising, filled out his uniform in the grace of the commander of men in action. "Destiny has played with us. It sent a spy to your garden. It put you in my place. A strange service, ours yes, destiny is in it!"
You find them in mysterious nooks of islands and continents, mostly red-nosed and watery-eyed, and not even amusingly boastful. There is nothing more futile under the sun than a mere adventurer. He might have loved at one time which would have been a saving grace. I mean loved adventure for itself. But if so, he was bound to lose this grace very soon.
I murmured my obligations. Cousin Joseph, 'whom I found no difficulty in recognising by reason of his watery eyes, appeared not so chirpy as of yore. "You take my tip," advised Cousin Joseph, drawing me aside, "and keep out of it." "You speak from experience?" I suggested. "I'm as fond of a joke," said the watery-eyed Joseph, "as any man. But when it comes to buckets of water "
See that scuttle over on Washington Street? Bet I can hit it!" "Bet you can't come within two hundred feet of it!" retorted the watery-eyed scrivener. "It's a lot further'n you think." "'Tain't neither!" declared Willie. "I know how far it is! What can we shoot?" Scraggs' eye wandered aimlessly round the room. "Oh, I don't know." "Got to be something with heft to it," said Willie.
A few years ago, when Colonel Alphabetical Morrison was travelling through the West on a land deal for John Markley, business took him to Roosevelt, and he found Balderson, grey of beard, shiny of pate, with unkempt, ratty back hair; he was watery-eyed, and his red-veined skin had slipped down from his once fat face into draperies over his lean neck and jowls.
"Combin' his chaps, by cripes!" he snorted again, and straightway told the tale profanely to his fellows, who laughed until they were weak and watery-eyed as they listened.
And each neche in turn shook the white men by the hand. The visitors filled and lighted their pipes, and passed their plugs of tobacco to the others. Then Ralph began to speak in Cree. "We come far to speak with Man-of-the-Snow-Hill," he began. The watery-eyed chief shook his head, grunting.
The watery-eyed young man, observing he had never tasted them himself at which sally there was much laughter said he would not mind trying a sample if the lean young lady would kindly pass him one. The lean young lady opined that, not being used to high living, it might disagree with him. "Just one," pleaded the watery-eyed young man, "to go with this bit of cracklin'."
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