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He rode back to his temporary chief just as an Indian bullet had whizzed in front of the major's nose and made his eyes almost pop from his head. "Don't you see," he urged, reproachfully, "how very much more they are around us? If Truman or Cranston needed help they would have let us know long ago."
"Now listen to me, folks I've got everything ironed out smooth for Anne's going. I am expected to remain in Denver all this winter and attend school there. Live with Anne and her mother. These are Mother's orders to the doctor and he ordered them on to Daddy. I know all about it, because Barbara and Mother planned a big campaign to try and marry Bob off sure pop this year! "Nolla!
But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of "Humpty Dumpty," the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed.
Ruth and Alice thought that the two actresses were of a rather too "showy" type, and Miss Pennington and Miss Dixon rather looked down on Alice and Ruth as being "slow" and old-fashioned. Pop Snooks, as I have intimated, was the efficient property man. Paul Ardite, whom Alice liked very much, was the juvenile leading man. Wellington Bunn was the "old school" actor already mentioned.
Hand over that fifty you got on yuh!" Very meekly, his face blank, Bud reached into his pocket and got the money. Without a word he pulled two or three dollars in silver from his trousers pockets and added that to the lot. "Now what?" he wanted to know. "Now You'll wait till Dave gits here to hang yuh fer horse-stealing!" shrilled Pop. "Jerry! Oh, Jerry! Where be yuh?
"Now if he does not invite Graves and Underhill and Apsworth to have tea with you, you might drop in at Boodles' on your way back from the city, and we will just pop on to Buckingham Palace and deliver to Queen Mary the ultimatum from the suffragette ladies of the Sioux Indians." Edestone laughed so heartily that the footman nearly turned to see if something had happened.
It was evident that she offered the final but charming illustration of the enfeebling listlessness of Sidon. "So those loafers have gone at last," she said, meditatively. "They'll take root here some day, pop. The idea of three strong men like that lazing round for two mortal hours doin' nothin'. Well!"
"An' them blasted Doppers are uncommon fond o' music, d'ye see, Sir," explained the wounded trooper. "They can't keep their ugly 'eads down behind the sand-bags when they hears it. Up they pops 'em over the edge and then you take care they don't pop down no more."
You've got to study it out, as them old chaps did. But I fetched it. What comes after 'gills, eh?" "Pints, I suppose," said Bray. "And after pints?" "Quarts." "QUARTZ, and there you are. So I looked about me for quartz, and sure enough struck it the first pop." Bray cast a quick look at Parkhurst's grave face. The man was evidently impressed and sincere.
Hullo, Sis. How goes it, Pop?" His greeting embraced everything and everyone in a rush, from the savory supper to the invalid father whose face had brightened at his coming. "What're you getting all dolled up for, Sis?" Beryl and her mother tried to tell the story at the same time. Dale did not seem at all impressed and Beryl was disappointed.
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