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Say, lemme show you " "Show nothing!" says I. "I'm tellin' you it was a right hook the kid put him out with, from chancery. Now see!" With that I sheds my coat, gets Swifty's neck in the crook of my left elbow, swings him round for a side hip-lock, and bends his head forward.
He seemed very amused by everything. "You you a spacer, no?" he demanded. By now a small crowd had paused and was watching the scene. Alan nodded. "Lemme show you how, spacer," the vender said, mockery topmost in his tone. He snatched the banana back from Alan and ripped back the rind with three rough snaps of his wrist. "Go on. Eat it this way. She tastes better without the peel."
"'Tain't right to lay up grudges ag'inst a man that was fussed up like I was, Mister Brackett," pleaded the Cap'n, hopping along beside the van. "I've got to git to that fire, I tell you. I'm the foreman! I'll use you right, after this. I will, I tell you. Lemme on board." "Promus' flies high when it's hot and dry!" twittered the peddler, still cheerful but obstinate.
"All right," acquiesced Giova; "but what we do with this?" and she jerked her thumb toward Willie Case. "If he don't behave we'll feed him to Beppo," suggested Bridge. Willie shook in his boots, figuratively speaking, for in reality he shook upon his bare feet. "Lemme go," he wailed, "an' I won't tell nobody nothin'." "No," said Bridge, "you don't go until we're safely out of here.
A moment's silence, and then a streak of light showed where the front door had been opened a crack. "Sit quiet on that there hoss," a gruff voice commanded, "and lemme see if you be Breckenbridge." "Hallo, Bill," the deputy sheriff answered. "Yes, it's me all right." And Curly Bill opened the door wider, revealing his burly form. "Put up yo'r pony in the corral," he said, "and come in."
"'We 'ad over nine quid each, me and Peter, ses Ginger. 'Where's the rest? "'It's all I've got left, ses Sam; 'every ha'penny. "He 'ad to undress and even take 'is boots off afore they'd believe 'im, and then Ginger took 'is watch and he ses to Peter, 'Lemme see; 'arf of seventeen pounds is eight pounds ten; 'arf of five shillings is 'arf-a-crown; and 'arf of fourpence is twopence.
"'Nuf!" he panted through bared teeth. "Lemme up, Mister." "This settles it?" "I said "Nuf," he growled. With quick movement I sprang clear of him, to my feet. He lay for a moment, baleful, and slowly scrambled up.
"It ain't in my line of business," says I; "but it seems plain, if their hired man has run away with our maid, or our butler run away with theirs, it ain't story enough to bother a alderman or his foreman about before breakfast." "Well, lemme get a picture of the wall, anyways," says he; and he done that before I could help it. "Have you got one of your butler?" he ast.
I's Timfy's dirl." "But you're too little to go away with Timothy." "Ven I ky an keam an kick an hold my bwef I s'ow you how!" "No, you needn't show me how," said Vilda hastily. "Who do you love best, deary, Samanthy or me?" "I yuv Timfy bet. Lemme twy rit-man-poor-man-bedder-man-fief on your buckalins, pease." "Then you'll stay here and be my little girl, will you?"
Consider yerselves under arrest. I apprehend yer in the name of the Commonwealth. Stay right where yer be. I'll go an' get Eb." "No, you won't, either," said Mr. Daddles. He and Sprague darted forward at the same moment. They grabbed the little man, each by an arm, and commenced walking him rapidly toward the boat. "Here, here! Whatcher doin'? Lemme be! Lemme be! This is assault!
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