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Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East. "'No way-stops, says I to Solly, 'except long enough to get you barbered and haberdashed. This is no Texas feet shampetter, says I, 'where you eat chili-concarne-con-huevos and then holler "Whoopee!" across the plaza.
Well, he, Dick, would have to take a hand in it, but it would require caution; moreover, Solly to whom he owed his job had told him at parting: "We don't want no experience, just you watch all of these blighters and find out what their game is, and lie low that's all!"
He was talking in a faint and feeble voice to Wilbur as she came up, and was trying to explain to him that he was sorry he had deserted the schooner during the scare in the bay. "Planty muchee solly," he said; "China boy, him heap flaid of Feng-shui. When Feng-shui no likee, we then must go chop-chop. Plenty much solly I leave-um schooner that night; solly plenty savvy?"
"'He gave his angels charge concerning thee," murmured she. "Tell me, child, how thee ever got to the shore." "O, the captain took us in a sail-boat! He called us crazy chickens, but said he didn't scold. I was the first one that saw the sail; and then Solly rowed us to it, and it took us in, just as wet as ever was. Johnny lost that paddle. So we got home; and, O, how my head aches!"
The recent English discussions are, however, more easy of access. "The Great Tobacco Question," as the controversy in England was called, originated in a Clinical Lecture on Paralysis, by Mr. Solly, Surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital, which was published in the "Lancet," December 13, 1856.
Solly: "I can state of my own observation, that the miseries, mental and bodily, which I have witnessed from the abuse of cigar-smoking, far exceed anything detailed in the 'Confessions of an Opium-Eater."
Now I'll tell you the way they work the game; it's simple. When she wants a man, she manages it so that every time he looks at her he finds her looking at him. That's all. "The next evening Solly was to go to Coney Island with me at seven. At eight o'clock he hadn't showed up. I went out and found a cab. I felt sure there was something wrong.
So I mentioned New York to him, and informed him that these Western towns were no more than gateways to the great walled city of the whirling dervishes. "After I bought the tickets I missed Solly. I knew his habits by then; so in a couple of hours I found him in a saddle-shop.
I reckon you had better give me that money and all the rest you have, before you go on your errand." "Me velly solly," declared Hop, acting as though he really felt bad over it, "but me leavee allee my money in um camp." This was a fact, too, as all he had with him was about five dollars in silver. "I reckon I had better go through you," said the leader of the outlaws.
She was timid, and always left it open so she could see the hall light until she fell asleep. "Content," whispered Jim. There came the faintest "What?" in response. "Don't you," said Jim, in a theatrical whisper, "say another word at school to anybody about your big sister Solly. If you do, I'll whop you, if you are a girl." "Don't care!" was sighed forth from the room.
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