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If you happen to be pussyfooting forward erect and encounter a German patrol, it is policy to scuttle back unless you are near enough to get in one good lick with the persuader. He will retreat slowly himself, and you mustn't follow him. Because: The British patrol usually goes out singly or at the most in pairs or threes. The Germans, on the other hand, hunt in parties. One man leads.

All three of the men were in that stage of drunkenness when a quarrel is likely to flare up at a moment's notice. "Listen here," demanded the man with the newspaper. "Tell you what, boys, I'm going to wring the neck of that pussyfooting spy Elliot if I ever get a chanct." He read aloud the editorial in the "Sun." After he had finished, the others joined him in a chorus of curses.

It might be well to interest some of these promising youngsters in the no less exciting occupation of National Prohibition Enforcement Officer. At present the chief difficulty seems to lie in the fact that, in our preparatory schools and colleges, a young man acquires a certain code of honor which causes him to look with distaste on what he calls pussyfooting and sneaking.

Nieman made the statement that both parties were "pussyfooting" and that he would not support the Democratic party unless its attitude in this matter was unequivocal. When Mr. Campbell discussed this matter with me over the telephone, I told him to send me a telegram, setting forth what he thought ought to find lodgment in the platform, by way of expressing our attitude in the matter.

Their action, or rather inaction, takes the form of what is commonly known as 'egg-dancing, or 'pussyfooting'; they wish to stand well with all sides, but have not the courage of their convictions, and are very anxious to make money. All this is very easily understood, when one remembers the ambiguous position of these gentlemen.

"Why, if it comes to that what were you up to that night, pussyfooting about the château at two in the morning?" "But this is positively uncanny! Monsieur knows everything." "Why shouldn't I know about that?" Vanity rang in Phinuit's self-conscious chuckle. "Who'd you think laid you out that night?" "Monsieur is not telling me !" "I guess I owe you an apology," Phinuit admitted.

A rich man, a gentleman, and yet sticking to the newspaper game." "And you're a puzzle to me, too. A rich man, a gentleman, and yet sticking to the banking game." "What the devil was our row about?" "Can't quite recall." "Whatever it was it was the way you went at it." "A reform was never yet accomplished by purring and pussyfooting," said Cutty. "Come over and sit down.

If they saw us do any pussyfooting, they'd think we were scared, and they'd come after us anyway." The two parties were not traveling in such a line that they would necessarily meet each other. Under ordinary conditions they would have passed at a distance of perhaps six hundred feet.

And I don't know as I call it so damn cordial in Mrs. McGanum when I holler at her on the street and she nods back like she had a sore neck. Still, she's all right. It's Ma Westlake that makes the mischief, pussyfooting around all the time. But I wouldn't trust any Westlake out of the whole lot, and while Mrs.

"No, no, Doctor, that's too crude altogether. If we have to do that, let it be only as a last resort." "I say do it first, then we know we will get results. I tell you I'm afraid of pussyfooting and gumshoeing around Seaton and Crane. I used to think that Seaton was easy, but he seems to have developed greatly in the last few weeks, and Crane never was anybody's fool.