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An' I give her a five-o'clock tea," cried Rag, in a burst, who, thinking that she was probably now going to be killed, began to take pleasure in telling all she knew. "Swell folks does; I seen 'em plenty of times on th' avenoo, an' here, too" she nodded toward the long French windows "an' I got as good a right, I guess. An' she let me take her doll, an' I like her.
Standin in front of the tarvuns of Pennsylvany Avenoo is a lot of miserbul wretches, black, white and ring-strickid, and freckled with long whips in their hands, who frowns upon you like the wulture upon the turtle-dove the minit you dismerge from hotel.
I guess yer man went acrost the roofs: them houses is all connected, and yuh c'n walk clear from the corner here tuh half-way up tuh Nineteenth Street, on Sain' Nicholas Avenoo." "Uh-huh," laconically returned the detective. "Thanks." And turning on his heel, walked westward. The policeman crossed the street to detain him for a moment's chat. "I guess it's all off, Jim," Hickey told him.
"I was aimin' a wallop at that general," complained Steve, "but something blew him right out of my hand. Come on up to Madison Avenoo. I heard they was goin' to save America up there, too." "Can't," said Wilbur. "Got to see a man." "Well, so long, Buck!" He waved to them as they joined the northward moving crowd. "Gee, gosh!" he said. "No, sir; Mr. Whipple hasn't come in yet.
This was in the days of Old Long Sign, be4 the iron hoss was foaled. This was be4 steembotes was goin round bustin their bilers & sendin peple higher nor a kite. Them was happy days, when people was intelligent & wax figgers & livin wild beests wasn't scoffed at. "O dase of me boyhood I'm dreamin on ye now!" New York, near Fifth Avenoo Hotel, Org. 31ct.
"But, say, listen! Don't ye know the name of the street ye want?" "No only that it's some kind of an avenue," desponded Pollyanna. "A avenOO, is it? Sure, now, some class to that! We're doin' fine. What's the number of the house? Can ye tell me that? Just scratch your head!" "Scratch my head?" Pollyanna frowned questioningly, and raised a tentative hand to her hair. The boy eyed her with disdain.
"Yes, sir," said Dick, always ready to joke; "I have to pay such a big rent for my manshun up on Fifth Avenoo, that I can't afford to take less than ten cents a shine. I'll give you a bully shine, sir." "Be quick about it, for I am in a hurry. So your house is on Fifth Avenue, is it?" "It isn't anywhere else," said Dick, and Dick spoke the truth there.
"And live on Fifth Avenoo," said Dick. "Perhaps so. Stranger things have happened." "Well," said Dick, "if such a misfortin' should come upon me I should bear it like a man. When you see a Fifth Avenoo manshun for sale for a hundred and seventeen dollars, just let me know and I'll buy it as an investment." "Two hundred and fifty years ago you might have bought one for that price, probably.
"Doc," he said, "let’s talk business. We’re men, we are, you an’ me. I’ve fought you plenty times. I know. An’ I guess you are on to me, too. I ain’t no squealer; you know that anyway. Perhaps I’m everything else you claim I am when you make parlor speeches to Gussie an’ Reggie an’ when you stand on a bar’l in Avenoo A an’ say: ’my friends’ to Billy an’ Izzy an’ Pete the Wop. "All right. Go to it!
I've hired a room in Mott Street, and have got a private tooter, who rooms with me and looks after my studies in the evenin'. Mott Street aint very fashionable; but my manshun on Fifth Avenoo isn't finished yet, and I'm afraid it won't be till I'm a gray-haired veteran. I've got a hundred dollars towards it, which I've saved up from my earnin's.
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