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"Sit down, bo," invited Soup Face. "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid. "Thank you, but; er I'm on the wagon, you know," declined the youth. "Have a smoke?" suggested Columbus Blackie. "Here's the makin's." The change in the attitude of the men toward him pleased The Oskaloosa Kid immensely.
"Father had gone to Toledo on business, and very foolishly I took his dare. Everything went all right until after we left The Inn, although one of the men his companion referred to him once or twice as The Oskaloosa Kid attempted to be too familiar with me. Mr.
"Hurry, Bridge," admonished The Oskaloosa Kid, "you're coming home with us." The man stepped toward the car, shaking his head. "Oh, no, Miss Prim," he said, "I can't do that. Here's your 'swag." And he smiled as he passed over her jewels and money. Mr. Prim's eyes widened; he looked suspiciously at Bridge. Abigail laughed merrily. "I stole them myself, Dad," she explained, "and then Mr.
He learned that the crime of murder was as nothing compared to the crime of allowing a customer to depart shoeless; he learned that the lunch hour was invented for the purpose of making dates; that no one had ever heard of Oskaloosa, Iowa; that seven dollars a week does not leave much margin for laundry and general recklessness; that a madonna face above a V-cut gown is apt to distract one's attention from shoes; that a hundred-dollar nest egg is as effective in Chicago as a pine stick would be in propping up a stone wall; and that all the other men clerks called Sophy "sweetheart."
Paynter prevented him on each occasion, and they had words over me; but after we left the inn, where they had all drunk a great deal, this man renewed his attentions and Mr. Paynter struck him. Both of them were drunk. After that it all happened so quickly that I could scarcely follow it. The man called Oskaloosa Kid drew a revolver but did not fire, instead he seized Mr.
Miss Fidelia Phillips, a teacher, came with a letter from the Michigan Freedmen's Aid Commission, for us to locate and secure board, which duty fell upon me. I hired a conveyance and took her to Oskaloosa, Jefferson County, and found board for her in the kind family of Dr. J. Nelson, who proposed to assist the colored people in securing a house for the school at once.
"How-do!" cooed Sophy in her best baby tones. Louie's disapproving eyes jumped from the objectionable V in Sophy's dress to the lure of Sophy's face, and their expression underwent a lightning change. There was no disapproving Sophy's face, no matter how long one had dwelt in Oskaloosa. "I won't bite you," said Sophy. "I'm never vicious on Tuesdays.
For a while each was occupied with his own thoughts; which were presently disturbed by the sound of footsteps upon the floor below the muffled scraping of many feet followed a moment later by an exclamation and an oath, the words coming distinctly through the loose and splintered flooring. "Pipe the stiff," exclaimed a voice which The Oskaloosa Kid recognized immediately as that of Soup Face.
Rock Creek, Doniphan Co 30 Independence Creek, Doniphan Co 12 Cedar Creek, Doniphan Co 16 Olathe, Johnson Co 10 McCarnish, Johnson Co 40 Oskaloosa, Jefferson Co 10 Cedar Creek, Jackson Co 30 Thus of organized churches there were reported 900 members, and of unorganized members it was ascertained there were enough to make the number more than one thousand.
"You bet it is," seconded The General. "Why he's only a boy," ejaculated the girl. "The one who threw me from the machine was a man." "Well, this one said he was The Oskaloosa Kid," persisted The General. "An' he shot me up," growled Dopey Charlie. "It's too bad he didn't kill you," remarked Bridge pleasantly.
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