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" After that cat," continued Shoop, "but the cat never treed, I reckon, for pretty soon back comes Bondsman, lookin' as disgusted as a hen in a rainstorm. 'We're gettin' too old, I tells Bondsman " "Ain't you goin' to let him in?" queried Lorry. " We're gettin' too old to chase bobcats just for fun," concluded Shoop. "What was you sayin'?" "Your dog wants to come in." "That's right.
Course, I didn't have the whole thing doped out at the start, but gettin' away with this first stab only showed me how easy it was if you wasn't bashful about callin' for help. From then on I didn't let much assistance get away from me, either.
"You did when you could catch him," said Beetle, cross-legged on the floor, dropping a stump from time to time across Sefton's instep. "Don't I know it!" "I perhaps we did." "And you went out of your way to catch him? Don't I know it! Because he was an awful little beast, eh? Don't I know it! Now, you see, you're awful beasts, and you're gettin' what he got for bein' a beast.
"Funny," he thought, "how a girl and poetry can get a tough nut like me. I wonder what the guys that used to hang out in back of Kelly's 'ud say if they seen what was goin' on in my bean just now. They'd call me Lizzy, eh? Well, they wouldn't call me Lizzy more'n once. I may be gettin' soft in the head, but I'm all to the good with my dukes."
I seed you, you know, down dere where you live; but I did n' let on, fer you an' Mis' Rena wuz w'ite as anybody; an' eve'ybody said you wuz good ter cullud folks, an' he'ped 'em in deir lawsuits an' one way er 'nuther, an' I wuz jes' plum' glad ter see you gettin' 'long so fine, dat I wuz, certain sho', an' no mistake about it."
There ain't nobody converted these days that I can see, and what's the use of gettin' up and preach into a lot of sapheads that don't know what religion is? Sure they don't." "Do you?" he asked. "You've called my bluff." She laughed.
Truly, young Tom had a way with women, had he only been aware of it. "I never took much stock in stolen things," said Euphrasia. "It's because you never were tempted with such pie as that," replied the audacious Mr. Gaylord. "You're gettin' almighty stout," said Euphrasia. As we see her this morning, could she indeed ever have had a love affair?
"They woke me up with their bellerin' and I had a job gettin' to sleep again. I guess Racey's right." "I guess he is," assented the Judge. "Now we know how they managed that part of it, where did they get the key to open the cuffs? Kansas says you ain't lost any keys, Jake." "We got 'em all, every one. I don't believe they used a key. Them handcuff locks was picked." "Picked?" "Picked.
When the men looked at it agin it was four times the size it had been at the beginin', and, what was still more frightful, it was gettin' bigger and bigger, and fiercer and fiercer lookin', every minute.
As it sounded a figure jumped from behind a tree and called tensely: "Hold on there!" Ned stopped short, thinking he was to be the victim of a holdup, but his fears were allayed when he beheld one of the police force of Shopton confronting him. "I heard what you said about gettin' the gold," went on the officer. "I was walkin' along and I heard you talkin'. Where's your pal?" "I haven't any, Mr.
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