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Sampson was pleased with this threat. "Now, that is odd," said he. "Why,
I am compilin' a vocabulary myself. I call 't th' ass-ass-ins'
dickshinary; showing how, by the use of mealy-mouthed and d'exotic
phrases, knaves can lead fools by th' ear a vilent dith. F'r instance; if
one was to say to John Bull, 'Now I'll cut a great gash in your arm and
let your blood run till ye drop down senseless,' he'd take fright and
say, 'Call another time!' So the profissional ass-ass-in words it thus:
'I'll bleed you from a large orifice till the occurrence of syncope.' All
right sis John: he's bled from a lar j'orifice and dies three days after
of th' assassin's knife hid in a sheath o' goose grease. But I'll bloe
the gaff with my dictionary."
"Meantime _there_ is another contribution to mine," said Mrs. Dodd.
And they agreed in the gaiety of their hearts to compare their rival
Lexicons.

CHAPTER XIII

THE subsiding sea was now a liquid Paradise: its great pellucid braes and
hillocks shone with the sparkle and the hues of all the jewels in an
emperor's crown.


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