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...Vagabond last night was roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...
Once he took his troubles to an old witch woman. She gave him good advice: "You got to weary yo' life along, 'cause dat's de way hit turns out. You work and yo' back gits tired; you lay round hyar in de sun and shade and yo' soul gits twice as weary. Take a job er work, and you wear cawns in yo' hands. Th'ow yo' shoes under some woman's bed, and cawns come on yo' weary soul. Quit yo' work, and you gits...
...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
When someone has to be beaten in Russia, and the someone may be a refractory Red Army soldier, or of course a prisoner of the G. P. U., the order is dat shompola, "to give the cleaning rod." A heavy "rod" of twisted wire, such as soldiers use to clean their rifles, is used as a whip...
...Lordy! dat's a ruse...