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"It'll make our chances better with one showing a yellow streak and turning on his employer for State's evidence," was Jack's quick rejoinder, the idea being quite to Perk's liking as he speedily made manifest. "Jumpin' jimcracks! we c'n tote the pair right nifty an' I'm meanin' to see that other guy gets all that's comin' to him, after that nasty crack on the coco he gimme with them irons.
She carries that sort of thing well she's so clean and nifty in line. If she could have a year in Paris wow! well, us to Fifth Avenue, sure thing!" "All depends on what is at the bottom of that girl's soul," retorted Lee, sententiously. "A light woman with money is a flighty combination. I don't pretend to say what your little Mrs. Haney is at bottom. Thus far I like her.
"I was," he admitted, a shade of regret in his voice. "Maybe I am yet; only I went up a notch last spring. Got married, and settled down. I'm one of the firm now, so I had to reform and cut out the foolishness. Folks have got to calling the rest the Frivolous Five. They're a pretty nifty bunch, but you'll get on, all right, seeing you're not the pilgrim you look to be.
"Something nifty in tweeds?" enquired the business-like proprietor of this haven, following him amiably into the shop, "Or, maybe, yes, a nice serge? Say, mister, I got a sweet thing in blue serge that'll fit you like the paper on the wall!" Archie wanted to talk about clothes, but not yet. "I say, laddie," he said, hurriedly. "Lend me, your ear for half a jiffy!"
Cronney, standing alone on the pier was equal to the occasion. She shook out a small and spotless handkerchief, blowing her nose with elegant deliberation before she replied, "Well I don't know as he needs to work all the time; Cronney is peculiar, you know, he's one of them that is high-toned and nifty about money he ain't like some, clutching onto every penny!"
Each bowsman carried a long brass-bound forty-five "trade-gun," warranted to kill up to ten yards. "It's surely a nifty outfit!" commented Sam, half admiringly. A half dozen of the younger men were landed. At once they disappeared in the underbrush. Although the two white men strained their keen senses they were unable to distinguish by sight or sound the progress of the party through the bushes.
I guess the railroad paid him pretty well." "Then he must be married?" "Yep. I never seen his wife, but he's got one son, Jack, a passenger engineer. I used to know him. He was a nifty boxer, though he never went into the ring. An' he's got another son that's teacher in the high school. His name's Paul. We're about the same age. He was great at baseball. I knew him when we was kids.
"I had a dozen of these to begin with," said he, holding the bottle up to the light. "Dollar sixty a quart. Quite a nifty little stock, eh?" "Is that all you have left?" Charlie scratched his ear reflectively. "Well, you see, I've had a good deal of toothache lately," he announced. "And as soon as Doc Simpson and Hatch found out about it, they begin to complain about their teeth achin' too.
"This is the purtiest rattler I've seen this season," he declared with enthusiasm. "Look at the markin' on him. I thought it ud show up kind of nifty laid around the cantle of your saddle. A rattlesnake skin shore makes a purty trimmin', to my notion. Don't know what he was doin' out of his hole so late in the season. He was so chilled I got him easy an old feller nine rattles and a button."
"No," said Frank, "all German planes are on the ground. They can't look for Red Cross signs and hospitals any more." "This fellow's swooping down!" exclaimed Tom, with heightened interest. "Maybe he's caught sight of us fellows and wants to get a closer look." "More likely it's engine trouble of some kind," suggested Frank, gazing at the swooping airplane. "My, but he's a nifty driver!
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