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Certain games, like football and boxing, girls can not play; they do not fight; they are not flogged or caned as English boys are when their bad marks foot up beyond a certain aggregate; girls are more prone to cliques; their punishments must be in appeals to school sentiment, to which they are exceedingly sensitive; it is hard for them to bear defeat in games with the same dignity and unruffled temper as boys; it is harder for them to accept the school standards of honor that condemn the tell-tale as a sneak, although they soon learn this.
"Do you mean to say I sell bad whiskey?" demanded Jack, angrily, emphasizing the inquiry by an oath. "I don't know anything about it." "Then what do you mean?" "I mean that all whiskey is bad for the health," replied Fletcher. "Oh, you're a temperance sneak!" exclaimed Missouri Jack, contemptuously. "I am a temperance man; you may leave out the other word," calmly answered Fletcher.
Sneak twisted his head round the tree as far as possible, and the next moment the powder exploded, throwing down the pile of wood, and dashing the savage several paces distant violently on the ground, and blackening and scorching his face and hair in a terrible manner. The other Indians instantly prostrated themselves on their faces, and uttered the most doleful lamentations.
Sneak had mounted up in the tree before building his chimney, and finding a hollow bough that communicated directly with the main trunk had cut through into the cavity, and thus made a vent for the escape of the smoke. "Come in now, and get something to eat," said Sneak. This was an invitation that Joe was never known to decline.
'I know right well which of us you do think's the nicest, and no mistake, only you're afraid of him; and he had no business boshing me last night before you. I knew he was at it, though I couldn't twig him altogether; but wasn't he a sneak, now, wasn't he?
We need every dollar we can scrape up. I won't be a party to " "You harbor pickpockets and thieves and yes, murderers, I'm told, Tom. It is a shameful fact that more sneak thieves follow this show and share with its owner than any other concern in the business. Oh, I know all about it! Don't try to deny it. They pay a regular tribute to you for privileges and protection.
"Now we know where we're at," he continued. "It'll be thisaway. Most of us will scatter out an' fire at the rocks from the front here; the others'll sneak round an' come up from behind get right into the rocks before this bully-puss fellow knows it. If you get a chance, plug him in the back, but don't hurt the Injun girl. Y' understand? I want her alive an' not wounded.
I'm everybody's slave in general, and Piddie's football in particular. You know head office boy of the Corrugated Trust. That's description enough, ain't it? And I'd been there so long Honest, when I first went on the job I used to sneak the city directory under the chair so my toes could touch. Now my knees rub the under-side of the desk. Familiar with the place?
"Queens are very soon discrowned!" he said to himself "And, fortunately, vacant thrones are soon filled! Now if that sneak Walden were here " He paused considering. The remembrance of the indignity he had suffered at the hands of Julian Adderley was ever fresh with him, an indignity brought about all through the very woman who was now perhaps dying before his eyes, if she was not already dead.
At least he thought he had done so, but when he turned over his change he found the new farthing still there and a sovereign gone. The accident offered him vistas of sneering speculation. Either way, the boy would show the greasy greed of the species. Either he would vanish, a thief stealing a coin; or he would sneak back with it virtuously, a snob seeking a reward.
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