Gumptious

Every reader has a right to know his authour’s motives for publishing at all, to be brought acquainted with his means of performance and his eligibility for the task; and the latter having likewise his rights to assert, this mutuality begets the undisputed custom of preface—the more gumptious the better.

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She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls gumptious.” ¶ “I never heard that word before,” said the Parson, laying down his knife and fork. “Bumptious, indeed, though I believe it is not in the dictionary, has crept into familiar parlance, especially amongst young folks at school and college.” ¶ “Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious,” said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. “Now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious.” ¶ “She is a very respectable woman,” said Mr. Dale, somewhat rebukingly. ¶ “In course, Sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours.” ¶ Parson, still philologically occupied.—“Gumptious—gumptious. I think I remember the substantive at school—not that my master taught it to me. ‘Gumption,’—it means cleverness.” ¶ Landlord, (doggedly.)—“There’s gumption and gumptious! Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum un is gumptious, I mean—though that’s more vulgar like—sum un who does not think small beer of hisself. You take me, sir?”

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I tell you what it is, aunt, or mamma — which ever you choose to be called — that spoilt pet of yours has become so exceedingly gumptious since her promotion as Lady Beauchamp, that she rules the whole roost — will have her own way in everything

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A cow that will produce from sixty dollars' to eighty dollars' worth of butter-fat in the year does not need to raise a gumptious calf that would meet the needs of the beef man.

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