The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, Том 3Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1906 |
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Сторінка 220 - And he went for that heathen Chinee. In the scene that ensued I did not take a hand ; But the floor it was strewed Like the leaves on the strand With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding, In the game "he did not understand.
Сторінка 238 - But he never flunked, and he never lied, — I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had, — To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river; To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — A thousand times he swore He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, — The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she wouldn't be passed. And so she come tearin...
Сторінка 213 - ... order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. For, in less time than I write it, every member did engage In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin, Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in.
Сторінка 238 - There was runnin' and cursin', but Jim yelled out, Over all the infernal roar, "I'll hold her nozzle agin' the bank Till the last galoot's ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the burnin...
Сторінка 17 - Like little Fauns began to caper : His hair was all in tangled curl, Her tawny legs were bare and taper ; And still the gathering larger grew, And gave its pence and crowded nigher, While aye the shepherd-minstrel blew His pipe, and struck the gamut higher. O heart of Nature, beating still With throbs her vernal passion taught her ;— Even here, as on the vine-clad hill, Or by the Arethusan water ! New forms may fold the speech, new lands Arise within these...
Сторінка 214 - Older than the hills, those infantile eruptions Of earth's epidermis ! " Eo — Mio — Plio — whatsoe'er the ' cene ' was That those vacant sockets filled with awe and wonder, Whether shores Devonian or Silurian beaches, — Tell us thy strange story ! " Or has the professor slightly antedated By some thousand years thy advent on this planet, Giving thee an air...
Сторінка 217 - Of the moon that was quietly sleeping On the hill, when the time came to go; Of the few baby peaks that were peeping From under their bedclothes of snow; Of that ride — that to me was the rarest; Of — the something you said at the gate. Ah, Joe, then I was n't an heiress To "the best-paying lead in the State...
Сторінка 37 - Long may thay wave!" sez I, seein I shood git into a scrape ef I didn't look out. In a privit conversashun with Brigham I learnt the following fax: It takes him six weeks to kiss his wives. He don't do it only onct a yere, & sez it is wuss nor cleanin house. He don't pretend to know his children, thare is so many of um, tho they all know him. He sez about every child he meats call him Par, & he takes it for grantid it is so. His wives air very expensiv. Thay allers want suthin, & ef he don't buy...
Сторінка 215 - Speak, thou awful vestige of the earth's creation, Solitary fragment of remains organic! Tell the wondrous secret of thy past existence, — Speak! thou oldest primate!" Even as I gazed, a thrill of the maxilla, And a lateral movement of the condyloid process, With post-pliocene sounds of healthy mastication, Ground the teeth together. And from that imperfect dental exhibition, Stained with...
Сторінка 217 - And the hum of the smallest of talk, — Somehow, Joe, I thought of the " Ferry," And the dance that we had on "The Fork;" . • Of Harrison's barn, with its muster Of flags festooned over the wall; Of the candles that shed their soft lustre And tallow on head-dress and shawl; Of the steps that we took to one fiddle; Of the dress of my queer...