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Wherefore he was held in high reverence, and when the two other gentlemen were hanged for lying the Theosophists elected him to the leadership of their Disastral Body, and after a quiet life and an honourable death by the kick of a jackass he was reincarnated as a Yellow Dog. As such he ate the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy was no more. The Opossum of the Future
For, leaving out of view the pigmies of the former place, whose like we know is never found in Congress, what is there in that Australian bird with the voice of a jackass to excite the feeblest interest in the mind of a man who has listened to the debates on Kansas? or what marvel is an amphibian with the bill of a duck to him who has gazed aghast at the intricate anatomy of the bill of English?
The little jackass ought to ha' held his tongue. It was a pity, bedad. Hard lines it is on a man to be losin' his life, you may say, along wid his temper, just be raison of a bit of a joke."
So ho! good jackass," crossing his ankles on the poor fellow's chest so that he could not be shaken off. The comrade lifted a cudgel, but there was a general cry of "My Lord Cardinal's jester, lay not a finger on him!" But Harry Randall was not one to brook immunity on the score of his master's greatness.
"An ass, a jackass, a howling jackass!" cried Poulett, crescendo. "How?" "Remember Corker pitching into him? Said he wasn't fit for a decent nursery, and Toddy had his mouth open all the time." "Bully Cotton has given Toddy up. Toddy was too big an ass even for Cotton," remarked Wilson. "He looks fairly intelligent," observed Grim, in a gentle whisper.
I thought he ought to be hanged, and asked the station-master if it could be arranged. He said no; and not only that, but said it rudely; said it with a quite unnecessary show of feeling. Then he muttered something about my being a jackass, and walked away and pointed me out to people, and did everything he could to turn public sentiment against me. It is what one gets for trying to do good.
Ride with me, behind me it's only forty miles more tie me to the saddle an' blow me to pieces if you find I'm lying do anything you wants; but let me get to Winchester before dark!" Hopalong was watching him closely and at the end of the other's outburst threw back his head. "I reckon I'm a plain fool, a jackass; but I don't care. I'll rope that cayuse for you.
One evening a customer, hearing a trampling of hoofs on the paved roadway outside, lifted the curtain, and recognizing the Commandant-in-Chief of the National Guard, the citoyen Hanriot, who was riding past with his Staff, muttered between his teeth: "There goes Robespierre's jackass!" Julie overheard and burst into a loud guffaw.
"Yes, Sir: but your cow and the chickens eat so much, and then blind Dobbin has four feeds a day, and Farmer Johnson always puts his horse in our stable, and Mrs. Clutterbuck and the ladies fed the jackass the other day in the hired donkeychaise; besides, the rats and mice are always at it."
Was you let in on it after I went?" Mr. Gibney demanded of his Fidus Achates. "I was not, Gib. I don't call it no joke to wring a feller's heart like Scraggsy wrung yourn." "In addition to makin' a three-ply jackass o' me!"
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