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"Sure, I can take a little joke. It's the big ones that stick in my craw an' stifle my friendship. Gimme a fountain pen an' a leaf out o' the log book an' I'll draw up the affydavit for your signature." Scraggs complied precipitately with this request; whereupon Mr.
If you're goin' in after 'im, why don't yeh go in after 'im?" "Well, gimme time, can't yeh?" said the major in a growl. And, as if to add more to this reproach, he climbed the fence that compassed the woods, looking resentfully back at his companion. "Well," said Peter, when the major paused. The major stepped down upon the thick carpet of brown leaves that stretched under the trees.
Lance pushed among the dogs, kicking and cuffing them out of his way, and sounded the tree with the back of a hatchet. "Ah 'low hit's gone all the way up," he cried. "Well, chop hit 'n fin' out!" returned his friends, impatiently. He began cutting a square and soon broke through the outer shell. "Gimme a glove, one o' you fellers," he cried. "Ah ain' aimin' to have a finger chewed off this time."
As he dismounted, a tow-headed, spindling boy lounged out of the doorway and stood with his hands shoved carelessly into his little overall pockets. "Hello, young feller." "'Lo, stranger." "What's the chance of bunking here for three or four hours and gettin' a good feed for the hoss?" "Never better. Gimme the hoss; I'll put him up in the shed. Feed him grain?" "No, you won't put him up.
"He gave it to me he did," nodding his head down the road, "an' he gimme this, too!" he added triumphantly, holding up a shining coin, as he darted away again at his evolutions. Netta deciphered the following lines from Richard: "We are encamped in Dry Thicket with the horses, all safe thus far. Do not attempt to come; you could not find us. Keep a brave heart. We will soon entrap the rascals.
"Oh, Birt," he cried, "I war jes' startin' to yer house arter you- uns; they tole me to go an' fetch ye. Fur massy's sake, gimme Nate's grant. I'm fairly afeared o' him. He'll break every bone I own." He held out his hand. "Gimme the grant!" "Nate's grant!" exclaimed Birt aghast. "I hain't got it! I hain't" He paused abruptly. He could not say that he had not touched it.
Gimme leave to tow that barge anything to keep your freight off the Victor, an' we'll pull it up river for you " "Be a good feller, Gib. You usen'ter be hard an' spiteful like that," urged McGuffey. "I'll tow the barge free," wailed Scraggs. Mr. Gibney sat calmly down on the stringer and lit a cigar.
Never in his life before had he talked in terms of hundreds of miles, cities, and far rivers, "Yo'll know that boat; he's went an' painted hit a sickly yeller, like a railroad station. I hate yeller! Gimme a nice light blue or a right bright green." "Hyar comes anotheh bo't!" one of the men remarked, and all turned to look up the chute, where a little cabin-boat had drifted into sight.
You'll want a mechanician to keep your motor in shape. I can make a motor, gimme the tools. You want somebody that knows the game to kinda manage things. You're Skyrider Johnny, same as the boys at the ranch calls yuh. Yon gotta have a flunkey, ain't yuh? I'm willin' to be it. I'll change my name, so nobody needs to know it's Bland Halliday.
I falls down-stairs 'n' looks all around nothin' doin'. All of a sudden I sees her in the telephone booth. "'Gimme that six bones quick! I says when I've got the glass door open. She puts her hand over the phone. "'Here, it's in my bag, she says. "I grabs the bag 'n' beats it. I gets the change out on my way back to the poolroom.
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