The 1,637 occurrences of jackass
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We hear of the Great Penguin, the Grey Penguin, the Cape Penguin, the Jackass Penguin, and several others; but, as they are all very similar in most respects, we will not trouble much about the kinds, but learn what we can of the habits and peculiarities of penguins generally.
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Many wayfarers were already abroad, among whom were several women, loaded like jackasses, with enormous panniers filled with I know not what species of evidently heavy goods.
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Attached to the Moultrie House, and wandering about the back-yard, there was a small orphan jackass, a sorrowful little light-blue mammal, with a tinge of bitter melancholy in his voice.
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He got back a copy of it through the mail, with the word "Jackass!" pencilled on the margin by some outraged Whitmaniac.
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Still Jim they name him on all the Projects and Still Jim he is here before this crowd of mixed jackals and jackasses.
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Like a young jackass as I was, I still retained her hand, throwing as much persuasion as I possibly could in my eyes.
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There were companies formed for fisheries, companies for making salt, for making oil, for smelting metals, for improving the breed of horses, for the planting of madder, for building ships against pirates, for the importation of jackasses, for fattening hogs, for wheels of perpetual motion, for insuring masters against losses from servants.
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Upon my word, Stephen, you _are_ a jackass--who to?"
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"Don't be a jackass, Noll," replied Wraysford, half laughing.
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"Oh, but you know, Greenfield--" "Look here, if you don't get out of my study," said Oliver, rising to his feet, "I'll--" Before he could finish his sentence the poet, who after all was one of the best-intentioned jackasses in Saint Dominic's, had vanished.
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Why can't you talk like an ordinary person, and not like a howling jackass?"
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"What a jackass I was to put the fellow there!" said Stansfield to himself.
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"If I hadn't cut up so at that jackass Simon, when he began about my being in the Doctor's study that evening, it would never have happened."
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The fowls also suffered so terribly that they died fast; and an unfortunate jackass on whom they had set their fancy was almost killed by inches.
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Startled by the approach of the canoe, up it flies, its harsh screams resembling the bray of a jackass--but shriller and louder, if possible-- greatly disturbing the calm solitude of the place.
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Iskender caught a scowl of disapproval from the Sitt Carûlîn, a glance of agonised appeal from the Sitt Hilda, and then a malicious grin from old Costantîn, as he ran by on foot, prodding with his staff the hindmost jackass, on which the Sitt Jane sat up with face averted.
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Had this schoolboy known a very little more he might {91} have added jackass brigs to his list of male exceptions.
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Havin' all kinds of hard words chucked at you--'fools' and 'idgits' and 'jackasses'--and when it comes to boots and hair-brushes, I says as it's rough enough; but when it's a soda-water bottle and a plate, I can't stand it, and I won't!"
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DUKE: Lookin' like a silly jackass.
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Bolt the doors and don't leave it to that jackass, Wilkins."
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Apparently the thought of Constable Wiseman filled his mind through two courses, for he did not speak until he set his fish knife and fork together and muttered something about a "silly, meddling jackass!"
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"Your constable, as you call him, is, I presume, that thick-headed jackass, Wiseman!"
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It's sheer murder to put such a jackass in command of a deep-water sailing ship."
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Two of them, Hiley Addington and Bond, spoke bitterly against Melville during the debates of June, which led Gillray to represent them as jackasses about to kick a wounded lion.
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Advancing upward, at times at angles of forty-five degrees and more, through narrow streets crowded with picturesque houses (if they did threaten to tumble down), they at last reached the Piazza: here the squeeze commenced, crockery, garlic, hardware, clothing, rosaries and pictures of the saints, flowers; while donkeys, gensdarmes, jackasses, and shovel hats, strangers, and pretty girls were all pressing with might and main--they did not seem to know where--probably to the nearest wine shops, which were driving a brisk trade.
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Other introductions, other glasses of sparkling wine--then off for the street, excitement, music, coffee, and a cigar; pretty girls with tender eyes; the prince's stables, with hawks nailed to the doors, and blood horses in their stalls; contadini, cowbells, jackasses; ride home on horseback by moonlight; head swimming, love coming in, fun coming out.
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It is of no use talking, I only wish the power were in my hands, and if I did not make short work of them, might I be a mere jackass postillion all the remainder of my life.'
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Well, those are birds--the laughing jackasses.
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The jackasses were alluded to ever after as Aunt Dorothy's lunatics.
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It will cost you twenty dollars for medicine enough to last you----" "To last me a life-time, I s'pose," she cried out, and continued: "Docther, me dear old man, you're an old jackass!
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But the Doctor, "wid his dom jackass stubbornness," as she termed it, had forcibly taken the kettle from her hands and lifted it to the bracket.
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For them was adopted, in naval colloquialism, the inelegant but suggestive term "jackass" lieutenants.
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A story ran of one, not long before my "date," who, having been sent on two or three bootless errands by unauthorized jesters, finally received from a person in due authority the absurd-sounding, but legitimate, message to have the jackasses put in the hawse-holes.
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The position was not without advantages, when riding head to wind, in hot tropical weather; but under way, close-hauled, with a stiff breeze, a good deal of salt water found its way in, especially if the jackasses were in the hawse-holes.
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These were called "jackasses."
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I had not looked down the like since I crossed the Jackass Mountain on the Fraser River in British Columbia.
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"Jackass penguins," [Note 1] Seagriff pronounces them, without waiting to be questioned; "yonder 're more of 'em," he explains, "out among the kelp, divin' after shell-fish, the which are their proper food."
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The racket is kept up till the latter are at length beaten off, though but few of them are slain outright; for the jackass penguin, with its thick skull and dense coat of feathers, takes as much killing as a cat.
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This singular bird has been christened "Jackass penguin" by sailors, on account of its curious note, which bears an odd resemblance to the bray of an ass.
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"I've been pretty much of a jackass, haven't I?"
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"Your walks in the Palatine ruins ... will be undisturbed, unless you startle a fox in breaking through the brambles in the corridors, or burst unawares through the hole of some shivered fragments into one of the half-buried chambers, which the peasants have blocked up to serve as stalls for their jackasses, or as huts for those who watch the gardens" (_Hist.
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A jackass remains a jackass, a culprit a culprit, and loafing never fails to bring the loafer to a disgraceful end.
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"If on this jackass I must wait, What will become of kings and nations?
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Here is the sun getting low, and the magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.
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I had just been dreaming of a great mouser, with ears like a jackass, and claws, armed with long 'pickers and stingers,' sitting on my bosom, and sucking away my breath.
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So we went down to the camel garage and hired a camel for dad, and four camels for the arabs and things he wanted for an escort, and a jackass for me.
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The Arabs on the other camels would ride up alongside and steer dad's camel back into the road, by sticking sharp sticks into the camel, and the animal would yawn and groan and make up faces at me on my jackass, and finally dad wanted to change works with me and ride my jackass, but I told him we had left the stepladder back at Cairo, so dad hung to his mountainous steed, but the dust blew so you couldn't see, and it was getting monotonous when the queerest thing happened.
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[Illustration: Sat there like a frog on a pond lily leaf 308] My jackass only stepped his feet in the edge, and dad wanted me to swim my jackass out to the camel and let him fall off onto the jack, but I knew dad would sink my jack in a minute, and I wouldn't go in the river.
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Well, the camels drank about an hour, with dad sitting there meditating, and then the dragomen got them out, and we started off for the pyramids, which were in plain sight like the pictures you have seen, with palm trees along the Nile, and Arabs camping on the bank, and it looked as though everything was going to be all right, when suddenly dad's camel stopped dead still and wouldn't move a foot, and all the rest of the camels stopped, closed their eyes and went to sleep, and the Arabs went to sleep, and dad and the jackass and I were apparently the only animals in Egypt that were awake.
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He asked me if I could't think up some way to start the procession, and I stopped my jackass and thought a minute, and told dad I had it.
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I had bought some giant fire crackers and roman candles at Cairo, with which I was going to fire a salute on top of the biggest pyramid, to celebrate for old America, and I told dad what I had got, and I thought if I got off my jackass and fired a salute there in the desert it would wake them up.
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Well, I scratched a match and lit the giant fire cracker, and put it under the hind legs of dad's camel, and when it got to fizzing I lit my roman candle, and as the fire cracker exploded like a 16-inch gun, my roman candle began to spout balls of fire, and I aimed one at each camel, and the whole push started on a stampede for the pyramids, the camels groaning, the Arabs praying to Allah, dad yelling to stop 'er, and my jackass led the bunch, and I was left in the desert to pick up the hats.
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Cairo, Egypt.--My Dear Old Geezer: I broke off my last letter in sight of the pyramids, when I was left alone on the desert, my jackass having stampeded with the camels, on account of my fireworks, and I presume you think I was all in, but I got to the pyramids before the stampeded caravan did.
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I saw a car coming along, and I just got aboard and in ten minutes I was at the base of the big pyramid, and the camel with dad on between the humps, was humping himself half a mile away, trying to get there, and the other camels, with the Arabs, were stretched out like horses in a race, behind, and my jackass was right next to dad's camel, braying and occasionally kicking dad's camel in the slats.
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[Illustration: I was ashamed of dad 319] Well, sir, I thought dad was a brave man, but he blatted like a calf, and when the camel stopped and went to eating a clump of grass dad opened his eyes, and when he saw that the procession had stopped he rolled off his camel like a bag of wheat, and stuck in the sand and began to say a prayer, but when he saw me standing there, laughing, he stopped praying, and said to me: "I thought you were blown up when that jackass kicked the can of dynamite.
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A BLACK HELP FOR BIDDY OBTAINED--BENDIGO, HER HUSBAND--PRODUCTS OF THE ESTATE--SHOOTING EXCURSIONS--HECTOR AND THE LEECHES--THE BOYS AWAKENED BY A LAUGHING JACKASS--A FLOOD IN THE RIVER.
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"That is the settler's alarum--the laughing jackass."
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"Laughing jackass!" exclaimed Hector.
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"I never heard that a jackass laughed, and I don't see one there," for in his eagerness he had jumped up, and gone to the window.
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then you will have to come to 'possum, or have to eat a tree-lizard, or our friend the laughing jackass, or her eggs, if she happen to have a nest in this tree.
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Here's a bit of damper to stay your appetite until we can catch a 'possum or a laughing jackass for dinner;" and Harry produced one of the dampers which he had stowed away in his pocket.
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AWAKENED BY THEIR FRIEND THE LAUGHING JACKASS--ANOTHER DAY UP THE TREE-- THE FLOOD SUBSIDES--RETURN TO DRY LAND--FIND THE FAMILY ENCAMPED--PAUL RETURNS.
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They were awakened by a loud cheerful cachination close above their heads, and on looking up, what should they see but their friend the laughing jackass, looking very much surprised to find them in such near proximity to its mate's nest.
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They were again awakened by that irrepressible fellow, the laughing jackass, at early dawn, and on looking out from their leafy bower they found that the ground beneath their feet was dry.
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Roused next morning by a laughing jackass, who had conveniently perched himself on a bough overhead, they took breakfast in the hut with the shepherd, and set off at the time he drove out his flock to pasture.
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"Because I see no cockatoos, laughing jackasses, or other birds flying about.
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The other kinds are the macaroni, the jackass, and the rookery penguin.
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Those had been the times when he had flouted the idea that he was basically romantic; and that he had never made a jackass of himself over any woman had induced a feeling of superiority that had expanded his ego.
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He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass, Heavy laden with pots, pans, dishes, and glass; He took out his pipe and played them a tune, And the jackass's load was lightened full soon.
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You'll get high in practice, and pocket a fee: Since many a jackass (all parties agree) For physic is famous, though silly as thee; Who art an ambling, scambling, Braying-sweet, turn-up feet, Mane-cropt, tail lopt, High-bred, thistle-fed, Merry old Bundle'em jig.
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It is like askin' ye to promise not to become a jackass; and what would ye think of a man who would ask ye to sign a paper like that?
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Orpheus with his lute,--Jubal with his harp and horn,--Harmonia, bride of the warrior seed-sower,--Musica herself, lady of all timely thought and sweetly ordered things,--Cantatrice and Incantatrice to all but the museless adder; these the Amphion of Fésole saw, as he shaped the marble of his tower; these, Memmi of Siena, fair-figured on the shadows of his vault;--but for us, here is the only manifestation granted to our best practical painter--a vagrant with harmonium--and yonder blackbirds and iridescent jackasses, to be harmonized thereby.
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(_Turns furiously on_ GUSHBY, _who is on the stage in the character of_ TILBURY, _the comic Squire._) And you, Sir, what in the name of fifty thousand jackasses, do you mean by standing there grinning from ear to ear like a buck nigger?
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What thou lackest is eggs and cordial water, the which women can carry as well as jackasses."
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"I'd liever have the jackasses."
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Whoever would fairly estimate the merit of the poetic deacon, may read the description of the slinging a jackass into the famishing city.
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He's a jackass, come a-courtin'."
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"Papa, Teddy called me a jackass!"
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From time to time a yawn, a cough, the rustle of a turned leaf; and soaring high above the calm of this hall of study, erect and motionless, their backs to the stove, both solemn and both smelling equally musty, were the two pontiffs of official history, Astier-Réhu and Schwanthaler, whom a singular fatality had brought face to face on the summit of the Rigi, after thirty years of insults and of rending each other to shreds in explanatory notes referring to "Schwanthaler, jackass," "_vir ineptissimus_, Astier-Réhu."
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If you would promise me to keep quiet, and not try to run away..." The worthy Tartarin bound himself by an oath; and five minutes later he beheld his dungeon invaded by his old acquaintances on the Rigi-Kulm and the Tellsplatte, that jackass Schwan-thaler, the ineptissimus Astier-Réhu, the member of the Jockey-Club with his niece (h'm!
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But any description of the latter would be as inapplicable to my friend's account of the other as the ways of a jackass to those of a mad bull.
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'Beg your pardon sir, I was afeerd it was the wrong place sir, but I've asked them Genoese here sir, twenty times, if it was Port Real; and they knows no more than a dead jackass!'
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Old Tory jackass.
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Here are a couple of people, Kimber and Peartree, not known to us before, whom we read off thoroughly in a dozen words; and as to Sapsea himself, auctioneer and mayor of Cloisterham, we are face to face with what before we only dimly realised, and we see the solemn jackass, in his business pulpit, playing off the airs of Mr. Dean in his Cathedral pulpit, with Cloisterham laughing at the impostor.
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Here we all stopped; but the head guide, an English gentleman of the name of Le Gros-who has been here many years, and has been up the mountain a hundred times-and your humble servant, resolved (like jackasses) to climb that hill to the brink, and look down into the crater itself.
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I know how pretty she will be with the children in your hands, and should be a stupendous jackass if I had any distrust of it.
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Not a dry eye, I believe, in the house, except some of the jackasses who had occasioned the necessity of the oratory.
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Though years and years have passed away since, I still remember the joy-inspiring laughter that burst from my father at this unexpected sight, as, advancing towards his old friend, with a face beaming with delight, and with extended hands, he broke forth in the following impromptu: 'Witty as Horatius Flaccus, As great a Jacobin as Gracchus; Short, though not as fat as Bacchus, Riding on a little jackass.'
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A farmer who wished to enter some of his live-stock at an agricultural exhibition, in the innocence of his heart, but with more truth in his words than he dreamed of, wrote to the committee, saying, "Enter me for one jackass."
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Jackass'd her to be his, and she-- She gave Jackal, and jilted me.
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On the whole, the most distinctly Australian bird is the kookaburra, or "laughing jackass."
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JACKASS PENGUIN.
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Hence the term donkey and jackass frigates, _Athol_ and _Niemen_ to wit.
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With regard to the larger hare, known farther north as the Jackass rabbit, the Indians generally refuse to eat its flesh, under the pretense that it feeds on dead bodies, a mistake which as yet they have not been persuaded to abandon."
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Don't bother yourself about the boys, or the jackasses either!"
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"Beggin' your pardon, sir; but seein' as 'ow you're a doctor, I wonder if you 'appens to know our bloke in the _Jackass_?"