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He wanted proofs an' all that, an' I gave 'em to him, an' wussen that, he wanted money, an' I gave that to him. He's kept askin' fer money ever since, an' I, like a dum fool, kept sendin' it, in hopes, if Telly had anything comin', she'd git her dues.
It is somewhat hard to say, Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt to declare, as if that were a statement of the whole truth, that fools mistake reverse of wrong for right. Fools do so indeed, but not fools only. The average Jiuman being, with the most honest intentions, is prone to mistake reverse of wrong for right.
"They develops the power from the Royal Waterfall of the Little Bill," explained Cotting, with slow and pompous deliberation. "Mr. Skeelty he tol' me they had enough 'lectric'ty to light up the whole dum country fer ten mile in all directions, 'sides a-runnin' of the mill." "Who's Skeelty?" "Manager o' the mill, sir, an' part owner, he says." "Has he a telephone?" "Yes, Mr. Merrick." "Thank you."
About dusk, when we were all tired and anxious to get into camp, we reached the mouth of Sum Dum Bay, but nothing like a safe landing could we find. Our experienced captain was indignant, as well he might be, because we did not see fit to stop early in the afternoon at a good camp-ground he had chosen.
To us it seems very strange how a man, when he is actually a banqueter, and at the instant of his communicating can be made in any other sort a banqueter than he is; for quicquid est, dum est, non potest non esse. Wherefore if a man in the instant of his receiving be an unworthy banqueter, he cannot at that instant be made any other than he is. Sect. 22.
Ruby Watson used merely to approach Terry before the Monday performance, sheet music in hand, and say, "Listen, dearie. We've got some new business I want to wise you to. Right here it goes 'TUM dee-dee DUM dee-dee TUM DUM DUM. See? Like that. And then Jim vamps. Get me?" Terry, at the piano, would pucker her pretty brow a moment. Then, "Like this, you mean?" "That's it! You've got it."
"There be some folks as knows more than they'll tell," put in Ezra, keeping his eyes upon the squatter Ben. "And there air folks what thinks they knows a dum sight more than they can prove," replied Ben. The great white eye jerked open, the crossed blue one twisting to bring Ezra Longman within its vision.
When Josiah's eyes fell onto 'em, my poor pardner sez, "Samantha, less be a-goin'." Sez I, "Are you satisfied, Josiah Allen, with the Works of Man?" And he advised me strong "Not to make a luny and a idiot of myself." And sez he, "Dum it all, why do they call it the works of man? There is as many wimmen amongst them dum skeletons as men, I'll bet a cent."
The boy got angry, and came very near saying "dum it," but he rather enjoyed the fun, after all.
"That's what I say," bawled Hank whiting, the proprietor of the house. "You fellers ain't got any enterprise to yeh. Why don't you go to work an' help settle the country like men? 'Cause y' ain't got no sand. Girls are thicker'n huckleberries back East. I say it's a dum shame!" "Easy, Henry," said the elegant bank clerk, Wilson, looking gravely about through his spectacles.
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