United States or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"And don't you make one of yourself, and then there won't be any." Redfield still hesitated. "I'd just like to had another pull at that horse-tail of his," he said wistfully. "Well, I knew old man Gillespie hadn't quite the strength. But I thought maybe Hughey Blake helped pull " "Hughey Blake," Redfield returned scornfully, "had nothing to do with it."
Before it was taken in the House a conference was held in the office of the Governor at the Capitol attended by the following workers for the bill: Senator Isaac Barth, National Committeeman; Charles A. Spiess, Holm O. Bursum, Supreme Justice Clarence J. Roberts, Charles Springer, Mrs. Kellam, Mrs. Walter, Mrs. Hughey, chairman of the State suffrage legislative committee; Mrs.
That had been a delicate touch making Nickleby carry the key to the satchel across to Ferguson's office. The key to satchel number two, it was! Nickleby had been on hand throughout. Oh, they had nothing on Hughey Podmore in this thing, absolutely noth ! Podmore's cigarette teetered on his lower lip. With a sudden lunge he grabbed for the tan satchel on the table.
Needless to say that Hughey and Ned Hanlon, John Green, Mike Doolan, and other wood-sawyers were at the Royal Amphitheatre among MacManus's volunteers. The Hanlons, in particular, were fine lathy men, without an ounce of spare flesh, but they had sinews of iron.
This day he preferred his own thoughts to my conversation, and so he did all the days of this first journey; while I should have greatly preferred his conversation to my thoughts. He dismissed some attempts that I made upon the subject of Uncle Hughey so that I had not the courage to touch upon Trampas, and that chill brief collision which might have struck the spark of death. Trampas!
"Course I expect to think different when my age is different. I'm havin' the thoughts proper to twenty-four, and you're havin' the thoughts proper to sixty." "Fifty!" shrieked Uncle Hughey, jumping in the air. The Southerner took a tone of self-reproach. "Now, how could I forget you was fifty," he murmured, "when you have been telling it to the boys so careful for the last ten years!"
With his mind in such a chaos of confused emotions Hughey found it difficult to keep up his end of the conversation and he was not sorry when the others showed a tendency to turn in early. Once the lights were dimmed he could hardly wait the reasonable length of time which must elapse before the other three occupants were asleep, so eager was he to make his investigations.
Or were you using the telephone?" "Why," hesitated Ferguson in some surprise, "I was called on the 'phone by an old newspaper acquaintance yes. Perhaps you know him Hughey Podmore? He got a job recently as President Wade's private secretary Canadian Lake Shores Railway. We used to work on the same paper long ago. Why?" "Oh, nothing just my idle curiosity.
"Say, Hughey," one of the Hounds spoke across the space they had left between them and the decent unbelievers, "Can't you gimme a light? Reach up!" He held out a cigar, in the joke of kindling it at the girl's hair. Hughey Blake turned, and his helpless retort, "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," redoubled the joy of the Hounds.
It's past that, long ago, with you and me. But if I only knowed what you was up to what you would really take to let David alone; to let her go back to Hughey Blake But there ain't any pity in you!" "Don't I tell you I'm full of pity? Look here, Nancy; I don't ask you to come with me, to be one with me, to go halves in the godhead, all at once.
Word Of The Day