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But Billy and Julia continued up the beach. "How did the work go to-day, Honey?" Lulu asked in a perfunctory tone as they moved away from the Playground. "Fine!" Honey answered enthusiastically. "You wait until you see Recreation Hall." He stopped to light his pipe. "Lord, how I wish I had some real tobacco! It's going to be a corker. We've decided to enlarge the plan by another three feet."
The reason was soon forthcoming. "As a matter of fact," explained the young man, "the present tenant is under our notice to leave." "Unsatisfactory, eh?" said Carrados encouragingly. "He's a corker," admitted the clerk, responding to the friendly tone. "Fifteen months and not a doit of rent have we had. That's why I should have liked " "We will make every allowance," replied Carrados.
He speaks in eulogistic terms of a "corker" which Spencer brought off in the second round, and, again, of a "tremendous biff" which Thomas appears to have consummated in the fourth. But of the more subtle points of the fighting he is content merely to state comprehensively that they were "top-hole."
The artist dashed up the stairs, three at a step. Keogh stopped smoking, and became a silent interrogation point. "Landed," exclaimed White, with his boyish face flushed with elation. "Billy, you are a wonder. He wants a picture. I'll tell you all about it. By Heavens! that dictator chap is a corker! He's a dictator clear down to his finger-ends.
There hung down before his eyes a white, whirling, blinding, choking mass of driving snow. "By Jove! that's a corker of a blizzard, sure enough! I'll draw my fire further in." He seized his shovel and began to scrape the embers of his fire together. With a shout he dropped his shovel, fell on his knees, and gazed into the fire. Under the heap of burning wood there was a mass of glowing coal.
As the last pied guest disappeared she turned wearily to her Petticoat. "I tell you, Warb," he said, "you are sure one corker! You put 'em to sleep all right! Now you've shown 'em how, you bet they won't go on having their stupid highbrow intellectural old gatherings. Hop along to bed, little tired Lollipop."
Of course, since the object of his labor had now been successfully accomplished, Max took the board away from the top of the chimney. This allowed the smoke to escape in a normal way. But when they stepped inside the cabin the boys were loud in their expressions of disgust. "That weed was sure a corker for smell as well as smoke, Uncle Jim!" declared Owen.
"Sounded like 'Sister's Teeth Are Plugged with Zinc," commented Whitney. "Or 'Lookin' Through the Knot Hole in Papa's Wooden Leg," said Whitehall. "Or 'He Won't Buy the Ashman a Manicure Set," added Stone. "No," reiterated Bill solemnly. "It was like I told yer; 'I Wonder Where You Are To-night, My Love, and it's a corker, too!
He rolled it from one corner of his mouth to the other, sucked it tentatively, then passed the fire end beneath his nose after the manner of a connoisseur. His experiments exhausted, he pronounced it a "corker." Richard conveyed Mr. Sands to his own apartments. The front window was what Mr. Sands required. He pinned the slips to the top of the lower sash.
Once you felt ill if you met Taylor or Corker on your pavement." Jim Cotton was right. Gus was now a vastly different fellow from the shiftless, lazy, elusive Gus of old; he worked evenly and steadily onward, and, in consequence, his name danced delightfully near the top of the weekly form-lists of the Fifth Form.
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