Excerpt: ... trepidation, offered her ample and generous foot for dissection. "A thorough, broad understanding and a friendly footing toward all," declared the solist, "and no danger of misunderstanding. However, your broken headline indicates pugnacity." "Nothing of the sort!" she snapped at him, and waddled away. Goldwin Leathersham, greatly interested, insisted on having his pedal interpreted. "Mount of Atalanta highly prominent," said Goodsport, "that means you are a runner, either for office or for pleasure. Here is a ...
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Excerpt: ... trepidation, offered her ample and generous foot for dissection. "A thorough, broad understanding and a friendly footing toward all," declared the solist, "and no danger of misunderstanding. However, your broken headline indicates pugnacity." "Nothing of the sort!" she snapped at him, and waddled away. Goldwin Leathersham, greatly interested, insisted on having his pedal interpreted. "Mount of Atalanta highly prominent," said Goodsport, "that means you are a runner, either for office or for pleasure. Here is a line meeting-that indicates a railroad man. H'm. A well-developed football shows you have been to college. You seem to be inclined to solemates-" But Leathersham had taken to his heels. "Please," said Iva Payne, gracefully offering her long psychic foot for perusal. "Ah, the poetic foot!" the soloist exclaimed. "There are two kinds of poetic feet-the Iambic and the Trochaic. You have one of each. In poetic feet the heels are often found in French forms. But poets are a footloose class and are often found with lame and halting feet. You don't seem to be a poet." "Never said I was," retorted Iva, shortly, and Warble said, "Stop this nonsense, it makes too much kicking. Now we're going to play the game I learned in Buda Pesth." She led them to the picture gallery which had been prepared for the game by having many sheets of fly-paper placed on the floor, sticky side up. "It's Fly-paper Tag," she said. It was Fly-paper Tag-she was quite right. "You're it!" screamed Mrs. Givens as she pushed the minister over onto a sheet of fly-paper. "It yourself," shrieked Leathersham adroitly shoving a sheet where he saw Mrs. Givens would light next. Warble was certain she was a great reformer. Yet would these reformed people stay reformed? True, they were now in the spirit of her party, Mack Sennett himself couldn't have asked a better interpretation of his own vital principles. But had they come to realize that this after all was the real thing, ...
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3/11/2010 12: 00: 00 AM
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Publisher:
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