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"You ain't going to let up until somebody whispers T.B. in your shell-pink ear; and maybe them two letters will bring you to your senses." "Yes T.B." "Who's he?" "Gee, you're as smart as a fish on a hook! You oughtta bought a velvet dunce cap with your lunch money instead of that brown poke bonnet. T.B. was what I said T.B." "Honest, Hat, I dunno " "For heaven's sake!
We wanna get in on it while the tamales are hot." And she must grasp his arm closer and worm through the sidewalk crush, and straighten her velveteen poke so that the curls lay pat; and once or twice she coughed, with the hollow resonance of a chain drawn upward from a deep well. "Gee, I bet there'll be a jam!" "Sure! There's some live crowd down there."
They, placed it carefully in the center of the table. The negro chorus swelled louder and louder "Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie." The diners, startled into curiosity and then into interest, began to poke their noses against this gigantic creation of the baker. In it they detected a movement not unlike a chick's feeble pecking against the shell of an egg.
Why, a-setting in his high chair as good as gold, a precious, watching me doing of the ironing. Get along with you, do my iron's cold again." She went towards the cook, and seemed to poke an invisible fire with an unseen poker the cook seemed to be putting an unseen dish into an invisible oven. "Run along with you, do," she said; "I'm behindhand as it is.
That blond dame of his looks like rolling him for his 'poke' without a worry. He'll hit the trail for his claim to-morrow without the color of a dime." "Which is he?" Kars demanded, with a certain interest. "Why, right there by that table under the balcony. See that dude with the greased head, and the five dollar nosegay in his coat.
Another whiff of the frying-pan, and George got up. He dared not poke his nose into Marthy's lap, there were too many chunks of wood within easy reach of her hand. So he sidled up to Jonathan, rubbing his nose against his big knees, whining hungrily, looking up into his face. "I tell ye," said Jonathan, smiling at me, patting the dog as he spoke, "this yere George hez got more sense'n most men.
My aunt has such attacks. They call it catalepsy." A dread word to the ignorant. Imperceptibly the crowd dwindled; the most discreet among them quite content to leave the house; others, with their curiosity inflamed anew, to poke about and peer into corners and curtained recesses while the opportunity remained theirs and the man of whom they stood in fear sat lapsed in helpless unconsciousness.
The patron went from group to group saluting his customers and eying those who were not. Whether any password or signal was given Arthur could not say. When the blond, good-natured Schwab reached him, Yetta whispered in his ear. The host beamed on the young American and gave him a friendly poke in the back; Arthur felt as if he had been knighted.
"And if you decide to place your advertising future in the hands of the Berg, Shriner Company " "Now look here," interrupted Ben Griebler again. "I'll tie up with you people when you've shaken something out of your cuffs. I'm not the kind that buys a pig in a poke. We're going to spend money real money in this campaign of ours.
But not alone, for grouped all about his pedestal were Washington and his generals, the matrons and maids, with a background of troops shouldering arms, Grif and Joe doing such rash things with their muskets, that more than one hero received a poke in his august back.
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