United States or Republic of the Congo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Wyoming, now Wyoming prides herself on sunsets. An' I've heard they have 'em in Italy, an' France an' some more of them foreign places where guys go to look at 'em. But it's always seemed to me that there ain't a heap of sense in gettin' fussed up over a sunset.
Say I combed that pier, believe me, West, and finally I ran across a kid who put me wise. He saw you go across the deck, and into the cabin with two other guys. They came out again, but you didn't. I pumped him until I got a pretty good description of both those fellows, and I decided one of them must be 'Red' Hogan, about the toughest gun-man in Chicago." "It was Hogan."
We get along fine together. And I kind of think we would, anyhow, even if we could understand each other better. I got to thinking to-night that maybe I'd better not quit cold, just yet. Now I can't sculp, and somehow I never was strong for them guys who sit straddle of a little chair and paint cows and posies and things on a strip of muslin hooked over a frame.
For, of course, the Queen's idea of proper dress was the dress that had been proper for the working-classes 3,000 years ago in Babylon and there was not much of it. 'Lawky me! said the marrow-selling woman, 'whatever could a-took me to come out this figure? and she wheeled her cart away very quickly indeed. 'Someone's made a pretty guy of you talk of guys, said a man who sold bootlaces.
"The devil or the deep sea," replied Jim, humorously inclined. "If they follow this direction, it will be the deep sea for certain," remarked Berwick, "for this trail is making straight for the bay, or I miss my guess." "I bet anything that those two guys are planning to reach the Sea Eagle, and there will be a boat lying in some cove to take them out," said Jim decisively.
And with this promise the girl had to be content, although she persisted in believing it to be quite easy to turn the wheel a few spokes either way, and so keep the brig sailing on a perfectly straight course. Meanwhile, the crew got to work and rigged a pair of sheers over the stump of the mainmast, firmly staying it with guys leading aft to the taffrail and forward to the windlass-bitts.
Them guys is crammed with guff, and passing examinations all the time; but there ain't one in a thousand that's got sense enough to run a tamale convention. The State governor would get left here if all the boys that wanted office had to pass an examination.
"You know, Astro," said Roger quietly, "I'll never be able to repay you for carrying me." Tom was quiet for a moment, and then added, "Same here, Astro." Astro grinned from ear to ear. "Answer me this one question, both of you. Would you have done it for me?" The two boys nodded. "Then you paid me. As long as I know I'm backed up by two guys like you, then I'm paid.
I'm in de dressin' room, chasin' around wit' dis lantern here for de jool box" he produced from his other pocket a small bicycle lamp "and just as I gets a line on it, gee! I hears a footstep comin' down de passage straight for de door. Was to de bad? Dat's right. Gee, I says to m'self, here's one of de sleut' guys what's bin an' got wise to me, and he's comin' in to put de grip on me.
We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.
Word Of The Day