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I was reading a good one last night that I borrowed from Gladys Carringford. It had three handles to its name, and they was all corkers." "Why don't you spit 'em out?" suggested Mrs. Smith. "Tell us what it was." "Well, it was 'Doris; or, The Pride of Pemberton Mills; or, Lost in a Fearful Fate's Abyss. What d' ye think of that?" "It sounds very int'resting. Who wrote it?"
Be fun to take in a show, but why the deuce do you want to see those darn foreign plays, given by a lot of amateurs? Why don't you wait for a regular play, later on? There's going to be some corkers coming: 'Lottie of Two-Gun Rancho, and 'Cops and Crooks' real Broadway stuff, with the New York casts. What's this junk you want to see? Hm. 'How He Lied to Her Husband. That doesn't listen so bad.
'Now this afternoon this minute, he said, which was just like Burr Claflin, who is an impetuous old chap. 'I want to give her a diamond brooch, and I want her to wear it out to dinner to-night, he said. 'Can't you send two or three corkers up to the house for me? That surprised Mr. Litterny and he hesitated, but finally said that he would do it.
"Yes, and then summer, and the end of our days at Putnam Hall," added Jack, with something of a sigh. "Jack, how are you getting along in your studies?" questioned Andy. "Fairly well. I find Latin rather hard. How about you, Andy?" "Mathematics is my bugbear, Jack. Some of those problems old Crabtree gives us are corkers."
Apparently the great Percy has no sense of humour, for at four-seventeen he got tired of it, and hit Skinner crisply in the right eyeball, blacking the same as per illustration. The subsequent fight raged gorily for five minutes odd, and then Wilson, who seems to be a professional pugilist in disguise, landed what my informant describes as three corkers on his opponent's proboscis.
"I don't even know where he lives," observed O'Hara, resuming his coat. "He's given up his rooms, I understand." "What? Don't know the old Siward house?" "Oh! does he live there now? Of course; I forgot about his mother. He had apartments last year, you remember. He gave dinners corkers they were. I went to one like that last one you gave." "I wish I'd never given it," said Fleetwood gloomily.
Well, let's forget Tantalus and drink instead to the able-est, handsom-est, fast-est vessel that ever weathered Eastern Point to the Johnnie Duncan and her skipper." "And Mr. Duncan, Tommie he's all right, too." "Yes, of course, Mr. Duncan. And while we're at it, here's to the whole blessed gang of us skipper, owner and crew we're all corkers."
Now they are taking fresh heart, determined to hold out to extremity. The Separatists for the Corkers are Separatists au naturel are somewhat disconcerted, and try to minimise the effect of the meeting by sneering and contumely; but it will not do. They affect hilarity, but their laughter is not real.
That was the first sentiment I heard in "rebel Cork," and it certainly expresses the dominant feeling of the local Nationalist party, who do not seem to have heard of the proposed Union of Hearts, or, if they have heard, they certainly have not heeded. Nor will anyone who knows for one moment assert that the Corkers entertain the idea. My hotel is a hotbed of sedition.
They were left to believe him a hard man, and often attributed his benefits to societies and persons whose charity would have been stifled by the whiskey-stench of their rooms. Thus, then, went on his life, until the day when the Golden Wedding was to be celebrated. That year, the sons, with the vine-dressers, the bottlers, corkers, and all, gathered together and said,
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