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I hoped he would get over it, but he never did; and he continued to treat me so ill, that I determined to quit the ship, which I did as soon as we arrived in Cawsand Bay. The captain allowed me to go, for I told him the whole truth of the matter, and he saw that it was true; so he recommended me to the captain of a jackass frigate, who was in want of midshipmen."
"Well," replied the Honourable Hilary, again, "that won't have any influence on the Railroad Commission." "No," said Mr. Flint, "but it all goes to increase this confounded public sentiment that's in the air, like smallpox. Another jackass pretends to have kept a table of the through trains on the Sumsic division, and says they've averaged forty-five minutes late at Edmundton.
He slammed up his books suddenly, and said, "I give it up; it's not a bit of use going on!" Wraysford pushed back his chair slowly, and said, not very cheeringly, "Upon my word I think you're right, Noll." "I've a good mind," said Oliver, looking very morose, "to scratch, and leave you and Loman to fight it out." "Don't be a jackass, Noll," replied Wraysford, half laughing.
He's my employer, to start with, besides being what God made 'em. But, reason? You might as well try reason on the hind leg of a jackass. Go thy ways home, Tregarthen: go thy ways home an' teach yourself that all this world and the kingdoms thereof be but what the mind o' man makes 'em, and Saaron itself but a warren for rabbits." Tregarthen shook his head.
I called at the White House one day concerning the appointment of some man, whose name I do not remember, but whom I regarded as my personal enemy. I told him I had no objection, but that I regarded the man as a jackass. McKinley evidently did not like my remark very well; he reached back on his table, pulled out this letter, or a copy of it, and asked me if I had written it.
Such a fire will keep all night, with very little replenishing; and it makes a very sociable camp-fire, and one around which the most impossible reminiscences sound plausible, instructive, and profoundly entertaining. Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
He did not quite take the boy's words in; then, as he grasped the idea that Sam was agreeing to the suggestion which he had himself made more than a month before, he burst out furiously. "Why the devil didn't you say so, yesterday? Why did you let me you young jackass!" Sam looked at him in faint surprise. Then he proceeded to explain himself: "Of course, father won't give me any money.
If they want anything send it on to them." He walked to the sideboard and mixed himself a whisky and soda. "I've been out the last three or four times Smith has called. If he comes to-morrow tell him I will see him when I return. Bolt the doors and don't leave it to that jackass, Wilkins." Jasper nodded.
Presently Rayel asked: "What is a jackass?" He stopped and took my hand as if expecting an answer of great moment. "A man who always tells the truth in this world he is a jackass," I replied. I was a little irritated by the trying experiences we had been through. Perhaps that is why my answer savored so strongly of cynicism.
First we left the dogs behind; then we passed a jackass rabbit; then we overtook a cayote, and were gaining on an antelope when the rotten girth let go and threw me about thirty yards off to the left, and as the saddle went down over the horse's rump he gave it a lift with his heels that sent it more than four hundred yards up in the air, I wish I may die in a minute if he didn't.
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