just suit her, and you too, being a poet!' cried Josie, with a skip.
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
Just then a loud and quick rap on the table made all the children skip, and stopped everybody's tongue.
I was at the station myself--two miles from this forsaken place--to make sure that Hathaway didn't skip while I was waiting for orders.
"I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.
"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell--" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.
I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip.
"My father and mother were honest, though poor--" "Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste. "If it once becomes dark, there's no chance of a Snark-- We have hardly a minute to waste!"
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Moe Berg, License CC BY-SA 4.0