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Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin' clothes." "And was that his wife?" Wetherell asked, hesitatingly. "Aunt Listy, they call her. Nobody ever knew how he come to marry her. Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. Funny place to bring a wife from Wisdom! Funnier place to bring Listy from.
Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin' clothes." "And was that his wife?" Wetherell asked, hesitatingly. "Aunt Listy, they call her. Nobody ever knew how he come to marry her. Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. Funny place to bring a wife from Wisdom! Funnier place to bring Listy from.
I think I remember the substantive at school, not that my master taught it to me. 'Gumption' it means cleverness." "There's gumption and Bumptious! Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum 'un is gumptious, I mean though that's more vulgar like sum 'un who does not think small beer of hisself. You take me, sir?" "I think I do," said the parson, half smiling.
"Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is Bumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a parson. "Now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is Bumptious." "She is a very respectable woman," said Mr. Dale, somewhat rebukingly. "In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours." "Gumptious gumptious.
"Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is Bumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a parson. "Now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is Bumptious." "She is a very respectable woman," said Mr. Dale, somewhat rebukingly. "In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours." "Gumptious gumptious.
Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin' clothes." "And was that his wife?" Wetherell asked, hesitatingly. "Aunt Listy, they call her. Nobody ever knew how he come to marry her. Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. Funny place to bring a wife from Wisdom! Funnier place to bring Listy from.
I think I remember the substantive at school, not that my master taught it to me. 'Gumption' it means cleverness." "There's gumption and Bumptious! Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum 'un is gumptious, I mean though that's more vulgar like sum 'un who does not think small beer of hisself. You take me, sir?" "I think I do," said the parson, half smiling.
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