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"Yes, they was there," sighed Hawkins, "but every bloomin' million was represented by a certified check, an' payable in London!" "By Jingo!" cried Morgan. "What fearful luck! But you had the prima donna's jewels." "Yes," said Hawkins, with a moan. "But they was like all other prima donna's jewels for advertisin' purposes only, an' made o' gum- arabic!" "Horrible!" said Abeuchapeta.
My advertisin' man wanted it to be, first, 'Higbee's Hams, That's All. But, I don't know for so big a space that seemed to me kind of well kind of flippant and undignified.
Is David to set down and wait or is he to go back there and wait?" "Go back there?" gasped Dick. "Why, Joey Noakes, ain't you got a mite o' sense? You old noodle! Of course, he ain't to go back there. You mark my words, purty soon his neighbors will be advertisin' for him to come home and forgive 'em. No, sir! Wait here until something drops. Read the Cincinnati Enquirer every day, kid.
"And us just finished what some would call a ole-time shootin'-bee!" "Who's your friend?" queried High Chin, although he knew. "Him? That's Jim Waring, of Sonora. And say, High, I ain't his advertisin' agent, but between you and me he could shoot the fuzz out of your ears and never as much as burn 'em. What I'm tellin' you is first-class life insurance if you ain't took out any.
And 'twas practice, practice, practice, from then on. "When we opened the second Annex, the question of help got serious. Most of our college waiters had gone back to school, and we was pretty shy of servants. So we put some extry advertisin' in the Cape weeklies, and trusted in Providence.
I altogether distrusted my ability to live up to my new name and address. "I figured on Miss Martin bein' right here, too," continued Raffles, "but I regret to say she's not feelin' so good. We light out for Parrus on the 9 A. M. train to-morrer mornin', and she guessed she'd be too dead. Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Robinson; but you'll see I'm advertisin' your wares."
I've had more comfort and well, peace, you might say, sence I've been in this house than I've had afore for years." "When I think," said the Captain, "of what we might have got for that advertisement, I swan it makes my hair curl. Advertisin' that way in that kind of a paper, why we might have had a a play actress, or I don't know what, landed on us.
Mandy was uncertain whether to believe him. "'Cause da's a big, red wagon downtown wid de name ob de show painted on it. It's de advertisin' one what goes ahead wid all de pictures what dey pastes up." "And you been hangin' 'roun' dat wagon?" "I done thought Miss Polly might want to know." "See here, lazy nigger, don' you go puttin' no circus notions into Miss Polly's head.
Mebby I could work up a trade by advertisin' to some of them Eastern folks that eats nothin' tougher for breakfast than them quakin'-oats and buns and coffee. Get along, you red hoss." About six o'clock that evening Sundown arrived at the deserted ranch. He unsaddled and led the horse to water. Then he picketed him for the night. Returning, he prepared a meal and ate heartily.
"Eb led us past the vault where Obe Toplady, Timothy's father, lays in a stone box you can see through the grating tiptoe; an' round by the sample cement coffin that sets where the drives meet for advertisin' purposes, an' you go by wonderin' whose it'll be, an' so on over toward the Old Part o' the cemetery, down the slope of the hill where everybody's forgot who's who or where they rest, an' no names, so.
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