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While Captain Len Guy and I were walking, I said to him, “You know, of course, what Cook’s opinion on the subject of the Sandwich group was when he discovered it. At first he believed he had set foot upon a continent. According to him, the mountains of ice carried out of the Antarctic Sea by the drift were detached from that continent.
When we sighted her, we went to work in the way men of the sea have of working together and never sayin' a word. Up the beach we chased, and dragged out the boat we called our 'Lifer. It was a good, strong fishin' boat, and we kept her ready in the rough weather. "'Wait! yelled Len to me, just as I was pushin' off. 'I've got a lucky pair of oars.
"How's news tonight?" asked Prescott, after naming himself. "Duller than a lecture," rejoined Len. "Would you like a hot one for the first page?" pursued Dick. "Would I? Would a cat lap milk, or a dog run when he had a can tied to his tail? But don't string me, Dick. There's an absolute zero on news tonight."
Len Haswell favored him with a satirical glance. "You seem," he suggested coolly, "to be only beginning your meal. We are here on business, and won't interrupt." The big man turned on his heel, and, followed by his companion, went into the adjoining dining-room. Loraine Haswell laughed nervously, but Paul's face clouded with deep anxiety. After he had put Loraine into a taxi' the cloud deepened.
"They may, but it would take a good deal of courage, for that article will start Gridley on a furor of enthusiasm for the game. I wonder who got up that hoax." "Why, Dad, 'The Blade, hints at some one down at the Business Men's Club." "Hm! I wonder who wrote the article." "Perhaps Len Spencer," replied Dick. "You know, Dad, he's a great fan for all our H.S. sports."
She said 'whom, not 'what. She got it perfectly. So I said, 'Name, please? and she said, 'Lan, Miss, and there we were. "Lan?" "Lan or Len. We were not nice about our vowels. Lanoline." "But what an extraordinary " "I said, 'My good Mrs. Lanoline, we have some grave misunderstanding here. Beautiful as I am, my modesty is even more remarkable than my beauty, and never, never has Mr.
But you, at least, know that your son is a moral leper kicked out of the High School because he was not decent enough to associate with the other students. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some of his bad qualities from you, sir" "You'll sing a different tune in court," asserted Heathcote Drayne heatedly. "So will you," laughed Len Spencer. "By the way, I see a policeman down the street.
"Then go about it in a regular way, after consulting your principal, as the Central Grammar boys have done," urged Len. "And, instead of meeting here on a corner, you can meet at my desk at the 'Blade' office." Hi Martin was "stumped" at this point, and he knew it. If he backed out now he would make himself and his school ridiculous. "All right," agreed the North Grammar boy reluctantly.
'Well, what's mattuh YOU doin' 'at 'nouncin'? Fanny say. 'Who me? I tell her. 'Yes, you kin, too! she say, an' she say she len' me 'at waituh suit yoosta b'long ole Henry Gimlet what die' when he owin' Fanny sixteen dolluhs an' Fanny tuck an' keep 'at waituh suit. She use 'at suit on extry waituhs when she got some on her hands what 'ain't got no waituh suit.
In baseball we tried to find out which school had the average best players. We didn't try simply to find out which school could boast of the one star player." "That's right," nodded Len Spencer. "Prescott, you're afraid to race with me, you or any other one fellow in Central Grammar!" exclaimed Hi indignantly. "No; I'm not afraid to swim against you," Dick declared quietly.
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