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"Isn't the Hobo there?" shrieked Billoo. He turned his head on his fat neck, and at first he looked very angry, and then scared. We walked down to the pier, and then out on the float to get as big a water view as possible, but there wasn't so much as a row-boat in sight. "What can have happened?" said Sally. "I'm worried to death," I said.
To him the small boy opens his heart; the "hobo" passes the time of day with a merry jest thrown in; the good housewife brings a glass of cold water or milk, adding womanlike, a little motherly advice; the passing teamster, or even stage-driver that autocrat of the "ribbons" shouts a cheery "How many miles today, Captain?" or, "Where did yon start from this morning, Colonel?" these titles perhaps due to the battered old coat of khaki.
"Eh?" gasped the young policeman, "oh, he opened his mouth where he was soldered and let the stuff run out. So the old hobo threw him into the river. That's why hoboes always pack a bottle with them now instead of a tomato-can." He leaned back with a sigh and, thrusting his hands deep into his pockets, smiled wanly at his vis-
Outside, Hobo barked his warning. The girls turned to the window and the laughter broke out afresh. The dog's eyes shone with a bluish light, like burnished steel. The hair on his neck bristled threateningly. As Graham looked up, Hobo's upper lip drew back in a menacing fashion, showing his teeth.
Perhaps, now, he even used to herd with a tough set. How about that, Frank?" "It's so all right. Todd got down pretty low, and was even a hobo, I heard, before he took a brace, and came back to Bloomsbury to make a man of himself again." "Gee! I'm real sorry to hear that," Andy muttered. "What? That he reformed?" demanded the cousin, in pretended surprise.
Accordingly he brought his hand to the front and made so as to let them see he was armed. As the hobo did not advance any further it looked as though he may have taken warning; the sight of that up-to-date weapon was enough to make any one pause when about to precipitate trouble, for it could be fired as fast as Max was able to press the trigger. "Bandy-legs!" snapped Max.
Yes, it was the same old town that he had entered the year before when Old Bunk had taken him for a hobo; but now he was hobo and ex-convict both, though the pardon had restored him to citizenship. His broad shoulders drooped, he turned back and crossed the creek and slunk like a thief to his cave. The door was chained but he wrenched it open and slipped in out of sight.
"Only under the influence of the social and educational psychologists and behaviorists could child-labor, the hobo, unemployment, poverty, and criminality be given their just emphasis; and it seems accurate to ascribe the social sterility of Economic theory and its programme to its ignorance and lack of interest in modern comparative psychology.
Henderson had ordered that the costumes be kept a great secret. Through a Los Angeles firm he provided dominoes for the five committeemen. But there were half a dozen other dominoes at the ball, so the committee quickly lost its identity. Oscar Ames came as a hobo. Henderson had a policeman's uniform, while the two cub engineers wore, one, a cowboy outfit; the other, an Indian chief's. Mrs.
I suppose the next state convention will determine pretty effectually whether there will be an overturn or not?" "If we renominate Harwood it ought to give us a good line on the control of the next legislature," he told her. "A hobo and a goody-goody," he added, with scorn, "think they have stirred up a revolution, but they have another think coming."
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