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The last phrase was the puzzler. It read at first like a boast like one of those picturesque expressions with which the Eastern mind enjoys to overstate its case. But he reflected on it. As an Orientalist of admitted distinction he had long ago concluded that hyperbole in the East is always based on some fact hidden in the user's mind, often without the user's knowledge.
I sent Jessop off the look-out, and then you must go and start the same game." "We 'aven't " Jaskett started to say; but the Second silenced him. "Stow it!" he said, and turned and went down the ladder, passing us quickly, without a word. "Doesn't look to me, Stubbins," I said, "as though the Second did believe we've seen the light." "I hain't so sure," he answered. "He's a puzzler."
To all which questions I answered in due categorical form: "I was not married the Christian women were pretty, but they, the Touarick women, were prettier than Christian women and, lastly, I should see whether I would marry one of them when I came from Soudan." These answers were perfectly satisfactory. But then came a puzzler. They asked me, "Which was the prettiest amongst them?"
At last the Scarabee creaked out very slowly, "Did I understand you to ask the following question, to wit?" and so forth; for I was quite out of my depth, and only know that he repeated the Master's somewhat complex inquiry, word for word. That was exactly my question, said the Master, and I hope it is not uncivil to ask one which seems to me to be a puzzler.
Dick used to call him his black shadow; and sometimes he would execute a flourish on his fiddle, which would be quite a puzzler to Opposition Bill, who would attempt something of the kind, which invariably set every one laughing.
Where's Kate, eh? Not visible yet, I suppose." "No, not till the parson comes," interrupted Mr Kennedy, convulsing his left cheek. "Hollo, Charley, where are you? Ah! bring the cigars, Charley. Sit down, gentlemen; make yourselves at home. I say, Mrs Taddi Taddi oh, botheration popple! that's it your name, madam, is a puzzler but we'll need more chairs, I think. Fetch one or two, like a dear!"
"That's a puzzler," said Gurney, affecting to consider the question deeply. "Here's a puzzler wot'll beat it, though," observed Tim Rokens; "suppose we all go on talkin' stuff till doomsday, w'en'll the boat be finished?" "That's true," cried Dick Barnes, resuming work with redoubled energy; "take that young thief to his mother, Phil, and tell her to rope's-end him.
This was a puzzler, for I could not remember the name of the fort, or, indeed, of a castle in French. Another big negro had caught Toby Bluff, and, of course, could elicit no information from him. They both laughed, as I fancied, at my attempts to speak French. I wanted to escape, if possible, without fighting; but when I found that we were discovered, I put my hand to my belt to draw a pistol.
I do not call myself a good shot. I have not had the requisite experience; but there are those who can take out the eye of a squirrel at a hundred yards." "Can you see the eye of a squirrel at that distance?" said the Captain, with a knowing wink of his own little ferret eye. That question, which raised a general laugh at my expense, was a puzzler.
The bluff we were on was steep and rugged. "Cody," said General Carr, "we're in a nice fix now." "That's nothing," I replied. "But you never can take the train down." "Never mind the train, General. You are looking for a good camp. How does that valley suit you?" "That will do," he said. "I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down is a puzzler."
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