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"You won't p'raps care to come along, Mister," said Morris, by way of a beginning; "but I guess I'll go with one of the boys here and have a hunt for it." "Sure," said Hank. "Jake an' I done some biggish trips together in the old days, and I'll do that much for'm." "It's deep water, they tell me, round them islands," added Silver Fizz; "but we'll find it, sure pop, if it's thar."
That'll stop him from doin' any more dirty work for the railroad. He was one of their top gun-fighters always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm." "Where does he live?" Saxon inquired. "Up on Adeline, near Tenth fine neighborhood an' fine two-storied house. He must pay thirty dollars a month rent.
He turned a wide eye back to the door, "Lucky for'm," he exclaimed, seeing the Bantam had vanished, for his fingers itched to break that stubborn head. He grew very puffy, and addressed Richard solemnly: "Now, look ye here, Mr. Feverel! You've been a-tampering with my witness. It's no use denyin'! I say y' 'ave, sir! You, or some of ye. I don't care about no Feverel!
An' now, Miss Claire darlin', if you'll go an' get what belongin's you have, that this generous lady ain't stripped off'n you, to hold for security, as she calls it, we'll be goin'. An expressman will be 'round here the first thing in the mornin' for Miss Lang's trunk, an' it's up to you, Mrs. Daggett, to see it's ready for'm when he comes. Good-night to you, ma'am, an' I wish you luck."
I'd hate to see them have to come down to ten dollar wine. Here you, Tony! Come back here! I may be a new hand in this department but I'm not so green that you can put a gold label over on me as a yellow label. Notice that I'm checking you another fifty cents." "Ain't he the grafter!" laughed Miss Sweeney. She leaned toward Miss Fink and lowered her voice discreetly. "Though I'll say this for'm.
The doctors prescribes exercise for'm, an' they take it, willin' as doves, whereas if their husbands said, 'Say, old woman, while you're restin', just scrub down the cellar-stairs good that'll take the flesh off'n you quicker'n anythin' else I know! they'd get a divorce from him so quick you couldn't see 'em for dust. No, they'd not do anythin' so low as cellar-stairs, to save their lives.
"I propose," he added, "that we start out at once an' hunt for'm like hell!" The gloom of Défago's probable fate oppressed the whole party with a sense of dreadful gravity the moment they saw the familiar signs of recent occupancy. Especially the tent, with the bed of balsam branches still smoothed and flattened by the pressure of his body, seemed to bring his presence near to them.
She wants, as you might say, a trained mother for'm, while his own untrained one is out gallivantin' the streets, shoppin', an' playin' bridge, an' attendin' the horse-show.
"'Because God thought two was enough for'm. "'Why did God think tho? "'You ask too many questions. "'Well, but juth lithen I want to know now lithen doth puthy-caths lay eggth? "'No! "'Why don't puthy-caths lay eggth? "'Because hens has a corner on the egg business. "'Why have they? "'Because they're born lucky, like Mr. Carnegie an' Mr. Rockefella. "'Doth Mr. Carnegie an' Mr.
He turned a wide eye back to the door, "Lucky for'm," he exclaimed, seeing the Bantam had vanished, for his fingers itched to break that stubborn head. He grew very puffy, and addressed Richard solemnly: "Now, look ye here, Mr. Feverel! You've been a-tampering with my witness. It's no use denyin'! I say y' 'ave, sir! You, or some of ye. I don't care about no Feverel!
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