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...travel round our barn-yard much, 'sides, the smell of the yard ain't always agreeable to city folks. And I wasn't sighing about you, but because ma didn't put any doughnuts in my lunch basket; and I looked at you because you looked so like red-headed Sam Smith who is gone daown to Waterford College." All this volleyed at me in a nasal twang from a mouth lined with bad teeth, accompanied by a healthy smell of onions, was too much for me, and I was driven to the smoking car and the solace...
Along the streamlet, tall and red...
...come. The long-expected, the widely advertised, the unparalleled circus has come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
...Dick looked a little uneasy, and laid down the glass of champagne he had been drinking. The rest of us felt a trifle uncomfortable, not knowing what might be coming. "He promised me he would n't, and he has never broken his word." Dick's face turned very red. "But he does n't like to offend his friends at college by not appearing to join with them, so he gets out of it in this way: he is a very good mimic, and can pretend to be intoxicated so that one could hardly tell...
...party. - "Miss Jones, have you seen Crabbe's Tales?" Young lady (scornfully) - "I was not aware that crabs had tails." Literary young man (covered with confusion) - "I beg your pardon. I should have said, read Crabbe's Tales." Young lady (angrily scornful) - "And I was not aware that red crabs had tails either." Exit young man. - Unidentified Exchange...