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Forget?" says I. "Say, Miss Vee, I'll keep right on rememberin' that spiel we had together until breathin' goes out of fashion and then some! Gee! but I'm glad you happened along!" "But how is it," says she, "that you " "Special commission," says I. "I'm waitin' here for Mr. Robert Ellins." "Oh!" says she. "And have you had some salad and sandwiches?"
I get kind of excited when I hear them two rings was it the baseball score or gin fizz you asked for?" "Ginger ale," I answered. I walked up to Broadway. I saw a cop on the corner. The cops take kids up, women across, and men in. I went up to him. "If I'm not exceeding the spiel limit," I said, "let me ask you. You see New York during its vocative hours.
"Lady," he said, "dat gent on de oder bench sent yer a song and dance by me. If yer don't know de guy, and he's tryin' to do de Johnny act, say de word, and I'll call a cop in t'ree minutes. If yer does know him, and he's on de square, w'y I'll spiel yer de bunch of hot air he sent yer." The young lady betrayed a faint interest.
Malted soapsuds, chipped mule fritters, er any o' them fancy foods? "Porridge! my, but you're away behind the times. Wake up, man, wake up, the fast express is tearin' down the track and "All right. I'll proceed. So McWhirter gives the bunch a spiel a mile long and would be going yet, but somebody calls out to him to dry up, an' he gets red in the face and dries up, and the game starts.
Folding his arms, and grinning impudently at the astounded cordon of faces, Roke drawled: "I just dropped in to say 'Howdy' to Mr. Standish. Nobody was around. So I made bold to pick up the fiddle and have a little spiel. I ain't done any harm, and there's nothing you-all can hold me on." For ten seconds nobody answered. Nobody spoke or moved.
Now you take half-pages every other day for a week and a full page Sunday " "D'you think I'm made of money?" "Elpy," said Dr. Surtaine, abruptly, "do you remember my platform patter?" "Like the multiplication table." "Was it good?" "Best ever!" "Well, I'm a slicker proposition with a pen than I ever was with a spiel. And you're securing my services for nothing.
I know of no reason why I shouldn't go down there openly and be welcomed and given a good supper. And yet at the same time I know that my life wouldn't be worth a tinker's damn if I did go down. You can clear up the whole business, and that's what you're going to do. When I understand why I am scheduled to be murdered on sight I won't be handicapped as I now am. So go ahead and spiel.
I know it's a loola by the way it begins; and I want to tell it at the next meeting of the Barney O'Flynn Association, if you don't mind. But I've got one or two matters to attend to first. If I get 'em attended to in time I'll come right back and hear you spiel the rest before bedtime is that right?" "By all means," said the doctor, "get your business attended to, and then return.
"You tell them you think Weaver is in her room, and I'll tell them my little spiel." "There's no need telling them about me shooting Weaver, far as I can see. I'd rather they didn't know." "For that matter, there's no need telling them your notions about where Buck is right now." Tom said nothing, but his dogged look told Larrabie that he was not persuaded.
"I never seen a punk yet that didn't try to make you think he was a wise guy an' dis stiff don't belong enough even to pull a spiel that would fool a old ladies' sewin' circle. I don't see wot The Sky Pilot's cozyin' up to him fer." "You don't?" scoffed Dopey Charlie. "Didn't you lamp de oyster harness? To say nothin' of de mitful of rocks and kale."
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