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Updated: June 13, 2025
'Narrer, reciter, declamer bien', are serious studies among them, and well deserve to be so everywhere. The conversations, even among the women, frequently turn upon the elegancies and minutest delicacies of the French language. And men, as well as women, are taken by those external graces.
A colored parson was addressing his hearers and drew a dreadful picture of the sinner in distress. He had two courses before him, however. But the exhorter asserted in a gush of novelty that: "Dis narrer way leads on to destruction and dat broad one to damnation "
'Bien narrer' is an object of their study; and though they sometimes carry it to affectation, they never sink into inelegance, which is much the worst extreme of the two. Observe them, and form your French style upon theirs: for elegance in one language will reproduce itself in all.
"Now, I don't want no scrap with you, though I have my scrap-iron right handy, an' what I want you to do is just step aside an' let me pass that narrer trail an' go about my business." "Grow woo-oo-wow," grumbled Gringo. "I'm honest about it, pard. You let me alone, and I'll let you alone; all I want is right of way for five minutes." "Grow-grow-wow-oo-umph," was the answer.
Sez I, "Josiah Allen, hain't you ever meandered at all from that straight and narrer way?" "No mom, not a inch, not a hair's breadth." I wuz dumb-foundered by his conceit as many times as I had witnessed it. The sermon that follered wuz white and glowin' with the light of Heaven. You could see that he had not been disobedient to that Divine vision that had been revealed to him.
Josiah wuz real took with the looks on 'em, and as the prize wuz low we got into the chairs, Tommy settin' in Josiah's lap, and wuz carried for quite a ways through the narrer streets, with shops juttin' out on each side, makin' 'em still narrerer.
Wa'al, sir, I see jest by the way he took holt on 'em it wa'n't the fust time, an' we went along to where the road turns in through a piece of woods, an' the track is narrer, an' we run slap onto one o' them dum'd road-engines that had got wee-wawed putty near square across the track. Now I tell ye," said Mr.
No more it ain't likely and let him be as big a duffer as ever was, to be a jiner at all that he'd ha' been two year at work on that there throne an' a carvin' of it in figures too! and never found out it was four spans too narrer for the place it had to stand in. Do ye 'appen to know now, grannie, how much is a span?" "I don't know. Do you know, Mrs. Percivale?"
His forehead was high and narrer, shewin' only a long strip o' tawny skin, in a line with his nose, the rest bein' covered with hair, as black as ink, and as iley as a seal's mane.
The footprints of our horses, the marks on the rocks, which you and me wouldn't notice, the fact that we met the chief on that narrer ledge and that he's turned up missing will soon lay bare the whole story, and as I remarked aforesaid, we shall hear from 'em agin."
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