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The _Jackass_ is one o' these 'ere light cruisers, and one mornin' at 'arf parst nine, arter the fust lootenant,--Number One, as we calls 'im,--arter 'e 'ad finished tellin' off the 'ands for their work arter divisions, the doctor 'appened to be standin' close alongside 'im, Number One beckons to the chief buffer..." "I beg your pardon," I put in, rather mystified.

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"Ananias the Second," I answered, for at the back of my mind I had a vague suspicion that the first lieutenant of the _Jackass_ was not the only member of her ship's company who delighted in pulling people's legs.

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It is differently told in one of the old Latin jest books, where a certain Piero, pitying his weary jackass, which bore a heavy plough, took the latter on his own shoulders, and mounting the donkey, said: '_Nune procedere poteris, non enim tu sed ego aratrum fero_,'--'Now you may go along, for not you but I now bear the plough.'

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He remembered now to have heard of the bird peculiar to Australia, popularly known as "the laughing jackass."

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"Like a jackass, more likely," responded Don ruefully.

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"No, for a jackass, dearie, doesn't take a hint."

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Not easily again shall a Corn-Law argue ten years for itself; and still talk and argue, when impartial persons have to say with a sigh that, for so long back, they have heard no 'argument' advanced for it but such as might make the angels and almost the very jackasses weep!-- Wholly a blessed time: when jargon might abate, and here and there some genuine speech begin.

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[Illustration: So Doll and the cow danced "the Cheshire round"] 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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Now the pup seemed to be filled with the spirit o' th' Lord all on a sudden, after th' fashion o' th' talking jackass i' th' Scriptures; for if a didna talk a did th' next thing to 't--a tried to.

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The melodious note of the glucking-bird, so named from the sound resembling "gluck, gluck," the noisy call of the "laughing jackass," the hoot of the barking owl, the howlings of native dogs, and the screech of the opossum, were the principal sounds that broke the stillness of the bush.

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"I usually rise," he says, "when I hear the merry laugh of the laughing-jackass (a bird) which, from its regularity, has been not unaptly named the settler's clock; a loud _cooee_ then rouses my companions, Brown to make tea, Mr Calvert to season the stew with salt and marjoram, and myself and the others to wash, and to prepare our breakfast, which, for the party, consists of two pounds and a half of meat, stewed over night; and to each a quart pot of tea.

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Johnson is a jackass, but honest.

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Applerod is also a jackass, and I presume him to be honest; but I never tested it.

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I never see a jackass that I don't think of a judge--some judges that I know.

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Indeed, it was nearly dark already, and in the nebulous middle-distance a laughing jackass was indulging in his evening peal.

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As the Victorian galloped into the darkness, and the New South Welshman dashed wildly after the third horse, the laughing jackass in the invisible middle-distance gave his last grotesque guffaw at departed day.

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And the laughing jackass is a Victorian bird.

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And during all these weary months he had drawn a melancholy picture of himself as a wounded lion, creeping into the jungle to hide its hurts, when, truth be known, he had taken the ways of the jackass for a model.

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Horace Greeley says that if a man will be a consummate jackass and fool, he is not aware of anything in the Constitution to prevent it.

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"They'll plug you, you poor jackass--two o' them like that, and one a-settin' up to watch out.

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What--a--blind--dunderheaded--jackass!" he cried.

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These are not, however, the only feathered fowl remarkable for the peculiarity of their notes; we must also mention the "whistling-bird," the "knife-grinder," the "mocking-bird," the "coachman," which mimics the crack of the whip, and the "laughing jackass," with its continual bursts of laughter, which have a strange effect upon the nerves.

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A boy that has got legs with skin on 'em, and doesn't know where to run to, is a jackass.--Stop!" he continued, as if a bright idea had just struck him; "did you ever hear of the Blacks?"

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A Beggar on Horseback is bad enough; but Goodness deliver us from a Beggar on an Andalusian Jackass!

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The Portrait, annoyed at being next to SIDNEY COOPER'S, R A., "_Be it ever so humble, &c._," representing head of a jackass, and some sheepish sheep, is evidently saying to itself, "Hang the Hanging Committee!

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Why then did the citizens of Cooper's home village hold a mass meeting and pass resolutions to the effect that Cooper had rendered "himself odious to a greater portion of the citizens of this community," and why should _Fraser's Magazine_, three thousand miles away, call Cooper "a liar, a bilious braggart, a full jackass, an insect, a grub, and a reptile"?

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A tinker's jackass is as good at it as any of them I see here.

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"Now, don't be a jackass, Johnny."

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Jackass or no, Johnny hit him.

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"Yes, you confounded jackass; and it's nearly put the tin hat on me!" exclaimed Dennis, rolling the thing which had once been a man to one side with a shudder.

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Then there was an old man with a large, mouse-colored jackass, and another man with a mule.

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Herret, twa sacre petite broot!_" In the height of the confusion, the jackass brayed.

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He was a chump about some things: if anything pleased him, he would laugh, and his laugh sounded like the bray of a jackass.

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The multitude, however, he could not, during his lifetime reclaim; for a miserable cotemporary of his, named Philemon, a coarse writer of broad farce, who afterwards died of a fit of laughter at seeing a jackass eat figs, continued by intrigues and his natural influence with the mob, to carry away some prizes from him; though he was so mean and contemptible a poet that his very name would have been forgotten, and long since sunk in eternal oblivion, if it had not been buoyed up by the simple fact of his entering the lists against Menander.

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But, while Fonseca had some of the wisdom along with the venom of the serpent, Bobadilla was simply a jackass, and behaved so that in common decency the sovereigns were obliged to disown him.

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So, for the pathetic side of the business, he draws you two old soldiers meeting as bricklayers' laborers; and for the absurd side of it, he draws a stone, sloping sideways with age, in a bare field, on which you can just read, out of a long inscription, the words "glorious victory;" but no one is there to read them,--only a jackass, who uses the stone to scratch himself against.

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Is not that a little better, and a little wiser, than Bewick's jackass?

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If you are in love you'll most likely do some silly jackass thing that will knock your career on the head, eh?

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"I'd be a blooming jackass to waste any more time here.

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Horses are my aversion; jackasses I despise.

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"Haven't I given you a good uniform, you blithering jackass?

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"You're not going to be such a perfect jackass----" he began, but Bones's dignified gesture arrested his eloquence.

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It takes a man to make a jackass outta himself at the wrong time."

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XIV THE PUBLIC TASTE A number of jackasses were sent to pasture in a meadow that was all green grass and dandelions and buttercups and daisies.

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The jackasses, immediately they entered the meadow, made a bee-line for billboard and began omnivorously to pasture off the lithograph.

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Except for that U-2 fiasco some years ago, when the U.S. broke all the unwritten rules and made jackasses of us before the world.

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In return Lafayette dispatched by request some special breeds of wolf hounds and a pair of jackasses; also, strange trees and plants, together with varied gifts such as Paris only could devise.

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The only quadruped I recollect seeing in them was a diminutive jackass, standing before a shop in "Old China Street."

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In the first place, we contend that we never had the plaintiff's horse; second, that we paid him for the use of the horse; third, he agreed to let us use the horse for his keeping, without any charge; and fourth, that his horse is a jackass."

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On the return voyage our hack behaved even more ungentlemanly than before, for now he most emphatically refused to budge an inch, indicating his intention of becoming a fixture by planting his feet obliquely, like a stubborn jackass, into the ground.

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"This is a sight for gods--not jackasses.

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The settler heard a bird laugh in what he thought an extremely ridiculous manner, its opening notes suggesting a donkey's bray--he called it the "laughing jackass."

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His descendants have dropped the adjective, and it has come to pass that the word "jackass" denotes to an Australian something quite different from its meaning to other speakers of our English tongue.

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(2) English names of objects applied in Australia to others quite different-as Wattle , a hurdle, applied as the name of the tree Wattle , from whose twigs the hurdle was most readily made; Jackass , an animal, used as the name for the bird Jackass ; Cockatoo , a birdname, applied to a small farmer.

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Frank Cowan: 'Australia; a Charcoal Sketch': "The bushman... Gunyah , his bark hovel; Damper , his unleavened bread baked in the ashes; Billy , his tea-kettle, universal pot and pan and bucket; Sugar-bag , his source of saccharine, a bee-tree; Pheasant , his facetious metaphoric euphism for Liar, quasi Lyre-bird; Fit for Woogooroo , for Daft or Idiotic; Brumby , his peculiar term for wild horse; Scrubber , wild ox; Nuggeting , calf-stealing; Jumbuck , sheep, in general; an Old-man , grizzled wallaroo or kangaroo; Station, Run , a sheep- or cattle-ranch; and Kabonboodgery --an echo of the sound diablery for ever in his ears, from dawn to dusk of Laughing Jackass and from dusk to dawn of Dingo--his half-bird -and-beast-like vocal substitute for Very Good..." 1896.

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(Derwent Jackass)-- C. cinereus , Gould (see Jackass ).

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See Jackass .

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Scientific name for the Jackass (q.v.).

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i. p. 64: "The Tropidorhynchus corniculatus is well known to the colonists by the names 'poor soldier,' 'leather-headed jackass,' 'friar-bird,' etc.

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'The Australasian,' April 9, p. 707, col. 4: "When the hoarse-voiced jackass mocked us, and the white-winged ibis flew Past lagoons and through the rushes, far away into the blue."

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Jackass-fish , n .

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Jackass, Laughing , n .

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The quotation from Collins (1798) seems to dispose of this suggested French origin, by proving the early use of the name Laughing Jackass .

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If from their short intercourse, the English had accepted the word Jackass , would not mention of the fact have been made by Governor Phillip, or Surgeon White, who mention the bird but by a different name (see quotations 1789, 1790), or by Captain Watkin Tench, or Judge Advocate Collins, who both mention the incident of the French ships?

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The epithet "laughing" is now often omitted; the bird is generally called only a Jackass , and this is becoming contracted into the simple abbreviation of Jack.

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There is another bird called a Laughing Jackass in New Zealand which is not a Kingfisher, but an Owl, Sceloglaux albifacies , Kaup.

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The so-called Derwent Jackass of Tasmania is a Shrike (Cracticus cinereus , Gould), and is more properly called the Grey Butcher-bird .

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Bird named by us the Laughing Jackass.

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i. p. 232: "The loud and discordant noise of the laughing jackass (or settler's-clock, as he is called), as he takes up his roost on the withered bough of one of our tallest trees, acquaints us that the sun has just dipped behind the hills."

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p. 204: "The settlers call this bird the Laughing Jackass.

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G. H. Haydon, 'Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 71: "The laughing jackass, or settler's-clock is an uncouth looking creature of an ashen brown colour...

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L. Leichhardt, 'Overland Expedition,' p. 234: "I usually rise when I hear the merry laugh of the laughing- jackass ( Dacelo gigantea ), which, from its regularity, has not been unaptly named the settlers'-clock."

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18: " Dacelo Gigantea , Leach, Great Brown King Fisher; Laughing Jackass of the Colonists."

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of the laughing jackass ( Dacelo gigantea ) a species of jay."

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p. 145: "The odd medley of cackling, bray, and chuckle notes from the 'Laughing Jackass.'"

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C. H. Eden, 'My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 18: "At daylight came a hideous chorus of fiendish laughter, as if the infernal regions had been broken loose--this was the song of another feathered innocent, the laughing jackass--not half a bad sort of fellow when you come to know him, for he kills snakes, and is an infallible sign of the vicinity of fresh-water."

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[Footnote] "The familiar laughing jackass."

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Garnet Walch, 'Victoria in 1880,' p. 13: "Dense forests, where the prolonged cacchinations of that cynic of the woods, as A. P. Martin calls the laughing jackass, seemed to mock us for our pains."

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i. p. 37: "The harsh-voiced, big-headed, laughing jackass."

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'Australasian Printers' Keepsake,' p. 76: "Magpies chatter, and the jackass Laughs Good-morrow like a Bacchus."

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'Your grace, we call that the laughing jackass in this country, but I don't know the botanical [sic] name of the bird."

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C. Lumholtz, 'Among Cannibals, p. 27: "Few of the birds of Australia have pleased me as much as this curious laughing jackass, though it is both clumsy and unattractive in colour.

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Far from deserving its name jackass, it is on the contrary very wise and also very courageous.

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Tasma, 'In her Earliest Youth,' p. 265: "'There's a jackass--a real laughing jackass on that dead branch.

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Great Kingfisher or Laughing Jackass.

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all Kingfishers other than the Laughing Jackass.

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T. H. Potts, 'Out in the Open,' p. 122: " Athene Albifacies , wekau of the Maoris, is known by some up-country settlers as the big owl or laughing jackass ."

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"The cry of the laughing jackass... Why it should share with one of our petrels and the great Dacelo of Australia the trivial name of laughing jackass, we know not; if its cry resembles laughter at all, it is the uncontrollable outburst, the convulsive shout of insanity; we have never been able to trace the faintest approach to mirthful sound in the unearthly yells of this once mysterious night-bird."

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i. p. 198: " Sceloglaux albifacies , Kaup., Laughing Owl; Laughing Jackass of the Colonists."

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[The following quotation refers to the Derwent Jackass .]

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Mrs. Meredith, 'Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 110: "You have heard of... the laughing jackass.

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We, too, have a 'jackass,' a smaller bird, and not in any way remarkable, except for its merry gabbling sort of song, which when several pipe up together, always gives one the idea of a party of very talkative people all chattering against time, and all at once."

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Laughing jackass (q.v.)

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(also Gogobera and Goburra ), the aboriginal name for the bird called the Laughing Jackass (q.v.).

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It is noticeable in some localities that burra is the common equivalent of people or tribe , and that the Pegulloburra... the Owanburra, and many other tribes, called the laughing- jackass--kakooburra, kakaburra, kakoburra, and so on; literally the Kakoo people ."

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Laughing Jackass , n .

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