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"I'd be glad to do that," said Brainard, "because I've heard a lot of that talk." "Well?" "Well of course when I say 'college man' I mean college graduate." "Why?" "If a kitten crawls into an oven, is it a biscuit?" There was an earnestness that robbed the question of any flippancy. Houghton laughed. "No!" "If a dub goes into college and gets flunked out in a month, is he a college man?"
"Enough to knock him out; he got two fingers busted by a liner hot from the bub-bat." "Good! Then I suppose that dub Hooker is pitching now?" "Yes." "Well, if I had any more money I'd be willing to bet the limit that Wyndham gets to him, all right. He'll get his." "Perhaps not. He fuf-finished the fifth in style." "He'll get his," repeated Herbert positively. "Then you'll be run in.
TARAN-TARANTARA! rub-a-dub-dub! play up horn! roll drum! a quarter to eight; and the crowd already thick before Rugge's Grand Exhibition, " Remorseless Baron and Bandit's Child! Young Phenomenon, Juliet Araminta, Patronized by the Nobility in general, and expecting daily to be summoned to perform before the Queen, /Vivat Regina!/" Ruba-dub- dub!
Without seeming to observe this, she adroitly balked his curiosity "So, you see, Daddy's sister is only my aunt by adoption. Still, she has been very, very good to me; though I love Daddy and this free outdoor life so much that I insist on coming back home every spring." "Ah, yes, I see," he replied. "Really, Miss Knowles, you must think me a good deal of a dub."
On a morning in March all the young girls of the village take small baskets of dûb grass and flowers to an appointed place, where they throw them in a heap. Round this heap they stand in a circle and sing. This goes on every day for ten days, till the heap of grass and flowers has reached a fair height.
He lies buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, beneath a stone bearing these words: "Here lieth the victorious Duke Godfrey de Bouillon, who won all this land to the Christian faith. May whose soul reign with Christ." His good sword is also still kept in the same church, and was long used to dub the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.
Don Quixote was standing by at the time, highly pleased to see his squire's stoutness, both offensive and defensive, and from that time forth he reckoned him a man of mettle, and in his heart resolved to dub him a knight on the first opportunity that presented itself, feeling sure that the order of chivalry would be fittingly bestowed upon him.
And he did dub me 'Sir Stick-in-the-Mud, moreover, for which I do owe him a grudge and will requite him. I will meet him one day where there be no miry pools, and then let him beware." This last he uttered with a look which was intended to be fierce, but which was only silly. "Didst thou come after them alone with no man to help thee?" asked Richard Wood, still more incredulously.
"Fire away, Pop!" she challenged. "It's about that fellow Peasley," Cappy replied coldly. "I wish you wouldn't have that big, awkward dub calling at the house, Florry. He'll fall over the furniture the first thing you know, and do some damage.
Ai' tham my bizless, Billy? W'y, sure. Charley, you're goof feller. You too, Billy. You're goof feller, too. Say. Wur-wur if Miller's is open yet? 'Spose it is? Charley; I dub bes' I knowed how, di'n't I, now? Affor that Chief come up thas stairway and say me: 'Come ou' that, ye cussed fool! Aw say! 'Come ou' that 'Called me fool, too! Oo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo-oo!" "Hello, Dan! Hurt yourself any?
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