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"I can imagine nothing more unpleasant than to own a Conscience," and he winked slyly at his friend the Lion. "You're fooling me!" said Dorothy, with a laugh. "I don't b'lieve you'd eat a baby if you lost your Conscience. Come here, Polly," she called, "and be introduced to my friends." Polly advanced rather shyly. "You have some queer friends, Dorothy," she said.
"I hope they haven't gotten away while we have been fooling around here." "I guess not," said Bob. "When they start you whistle twice and I'll be with you right away." "All right," agreed Hugh. "You'd better run with your lights dimmed." "I shall, don't worry." Hugh hurried away. Bob was left alone in the car and he presently shut off the engine.
He called Geoffrey "406;" Featherstone, "28;" Sydney, "No. 5," and the old Duke, "16." The prisoners recognized their numbers as quickly as free workmen would have answered to their names. "No. 5," said the Warder, sharply, a bearded man, with the bearing of an old infantry soldier, "you must put more life into your work. You have been fooling around that stone for the last ten minutes."
The palms and inside of her fingers were white, puckered, and worn. "Why, Bess, you've been fooling in the water," he said. "Fooling? Look here!" With deft fingers she spread open the black scarf, and the bright sun shone upon a dull, glittering heap of gold. "Gold!" he ejaculated. "Yes, gold! See, pounds of gold!
"Now quit fooling, and come on out in the boat, and you'll soon know all about it," replied the doctor's son. "Then we have got to wait?" asked Giant reproachfully. "And when we are dying by inches to know," added Whopper. "Yes, you've got to wait. So the sooner we get out on the river the better -if you are dying, as you say," responded the doctor's son.
Have you anything more to say to me?" demanded the Professor. "I reckon not. I've said my say." "Then get out before I forget myself and hit you on the nose!" roared Professor Zepplin. "Don't you dare come fooling around our camp again, and thank your lucky stars that Master Tad didn't make a mistake and shoot lower. Are you going, or are you waiting for me to throw you out?" fumed the Professor.
Perhaps the Doc was just fooling him, but in a moment back he came again, with a nurse trailing behind with blankets and a bottle. "We're going to get another car, son, this one's no good for such a trip. We'll fix it so you can lie down and save your strength for when you get there. No, son I don't mean the ambulance," as he saw the alarm in Billy's face, "just a nice big car.
Shorty was silent. "I used to make more myself," said the Virginian. "You're making a lot more now," said Shorty. "Oh, yes. But I mean when I was fooling around the earth, jumping from job to job, and helling all over town between whiles. I was not worth fifty a month then, nor twenty-five. But there was nights I made a heap more at cyards." Shorty's eyes grew large.
"Now young man, take care of yourself," said the doctor in parting from his patient a few days later, "and for the land's sake keep away from back alleys at night. When you know a little more about New York you'll learn that it's best to keep just as far away from such places as possible. Don't go fooling around under the impression that you can convert any of those blackguards.
"I don' care nothing at all 'bout them babies," put in Jimmy, "'tain't going to do us no good if all the new babies what Doctor Sanford finds can read and write; it'd jes' make 'em the sassiest things ever was. 'Sides, I got plenty things to ask God for 'thout fooling long other folks' brats, and I ain't going to meddle with God's business nohow."
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