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When the book was finished and I came to look around to see what had become of the team I had originally started out with Aunt Patsy Cooper, Aunt Betsy Hale, the two boys, and Rowena the light-weight heroine they were nowhere to be seen; they had disappeared from the story some time or other. I hunted about and found them found them stranded, idle, forgotten, and permanently useless.
Steel traps, light-weight bullets an' repeatin' guns ain't human. I tell ye it's them as makes all the sufferin'." This was a long speech for Caleb, but it was really less connected than here given. Yan had to keep him going with occasional questions. This he followed up. "What do you think about bows and arrows, Mr. Clark?"
"I should hope so, father; at any rate I should not mind trying. I know that I could hold my own pretty fairly with young Jackson. They call him the 'Bantam'. He is the champion light-weight now, though he does not fight above nine stone, so there is not much difference between us in weight." "Good! and how about your school work?" "Oh, I did pretty well, father!
There need be no controversy between the light-weight and the heavy-weight party on this point. We of the light-weight party agree, that, if the dumb-bell is to be used as the heavy-weight party uses it, it must be heavy; but if as we use it, then it must be light. If they of the heavy-weight party think not, we ask them to try it.
He had been up to Aldershot three times, once as a feather-weight and twice as a light-weight, and each time he had returned with the silver medal. As for Tony, he was more a fighter than a sparrer. When he paid a visit to his uncle's house he boxed with Allen daily, and invariably got the worst of it. Allen was too quick for him. But he was clever with his hands.
I hain't seen the livin' presence o' them sheep senct I don't know when, says I. 'I've been a-threatenin' these tew years t' go and hunt em up, but the glimpst I've had o' 'em in this 'ere pictur'll dew jest as well, says I; 'fur 's I can see, they look promisin', an' gettin' better points 'n ever for light-weight jumpers, says I Sartin ye hit a bone then, mother! Thar'! I told ye so.
These four-legged fish carry considerably heavier stuff than Roger did, I'm thinking; but they'll be up against something themselves pretty quick, that is NO light-weight, believe me!" "Do you know something, or are you just whistling in the dark?" Bradley demanded. "I know a little; not much.
At the end of the term, shortly before the Public Schools' Competitions at Aldershot, inter-house boxing cups were competed for at Wrykyn. It would be a dramatic act of reparation to the house if he could win the Light-Weight cup for it. His imagination, jumping wide gaps, did not admit the possibility of his not being good enough to win it.
These few significant extracts, from a mass of official reports, show that the commercial frauds were continuous, and began long before Commodore Vanderbilt's time, and have prevailed up to the present. It is estimated that manufacturers and shopkeepers cheat the people of the United States out of $200,000,000 a year by the light-weight and short-weight frauds.
Then there was another sound, as though some light-weight metallic object had fallen to the floor. "Good-bye, old chap! I I respect you for your calm grit that's all I can say." There was the sound of a quick turn, then soft footsteps. Jack knew that Millard had fled. "He respects me for my 'calm grit'!" laughed Jack, grimly almost hysterically.
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