Maybe he'll be willing to explain his
joke to the Hoppers.
and as this was seriously meant for a
joke, his laugh was chorused by the seven.
We began to laugh again, feeling sure that they were indulging in some
joke that was intended to crown our little entertainment.
Your
joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him.
From this time, the uninvited guest was taken into favor; his
jokes began to be relished; his careless, free and easy air, to be considered singularly amusing; and in the end, he was pronounced by the travellers one of the merriest companions and most entertaining vagabonds they had met with in the wilderness.
It means, my dear friend," explained the Woggle-Bug, "that our language contains many words having a double meaning; and that to pronounce a
joke that allows both meanings of a certain word, proves the joker a person of culture and refinement, who has, moreover, a thorough command of the language.
Poyser answering for the rest with unwonted vivacity of tongue, for he had all the appropriate wedding-day
jokes at his command.
There was dead silence when I finished--it was one of those long
jokes, too--and then, at last, somebody said: "And that was the
joke?
An ironical smile played on Evgenie's lips all the while the recitation was proceeding, which showed that he, too, was probably in the secret of the 'poor knight'
joke.
And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, 'You might make a
joke on that--something about "horse" and "hoarse," you know.
He is the type that gives rise to the
jokes in the funny papers.
But I don't care, I don't mind the terms -- I'd be willing to stand a thousand such
jokes to have you here.
