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Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
"Thank you," said the Mayor, peevishly; " but, on the whole, I prefer to be restored with peeled bananas."
The Magic Pudding (1918)
"Whiskers in the Puddin' is worse than puddin' in the whiskers," shouted the Puddin', standing up in his basin.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
But at this season puddin' thieves generally go south-east, owing to the price of onions.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?
The Magic Pudding (1918)
Bill, of course, treated this conduct with silent contempt. It was his rule through life, he said, never to fight people with beaks.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
Well, if this ain't enough to dumbfound a codfish.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
"Very well sung, Albert," said Bill encouragingly, "though you're a trifle husky in your undertones, which is no doubt due to the gravy in your innards."
The Magic Pudding (1918)
After that they had boiled jam roll and apple dumpling, as the fancy took them, for if you wanted a change of food from the Puddin', all you had to do was to whistle twice and turn the basin round.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
O Caribbee! O Barbaree!
O shores of South Amerikee!
O, never go there: if the truth be told,
You'll get more kicks than Spanish gold.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
O, who would be a puddin',
A puddin' in a pot,
A puddin' which is stood on
A fire which is hot?
O sad indeed the lot
Of puddin's in a pot.
The Magic Pudding (1918)
Whiskers alone are bad enough
Attached to faces coarse and rough
But how much greater their offence is
When stuck on Uncles' countenances
The Magic Pudding (1918)
One was a Possum, with one of those sharp, snooting, snouting sort of faces, and the other was a bulbous, boozy-looking Wombat in an old long-tailed coat, and a hat that marked him down as a man you couldn't trust in the fowl-yard.
The Magic Pudding (1918)