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He looks as fine as silk, and told me privately he calculates on carrying off that prize offered for hammer throwing, because that is his pet hobby, you see Yes, and more than that, he said they were all crazy up at his 'burg' over the big meet, boys being out practicing every sort of stunt, even to road-running by moonlight."
"Somebody speedin'?" "Yes. Say, who's the guy, the big one?" "Him? Oh, that's Billy Sample, the fella that does the desert stuff for the General Film Company. The kid is his pardner who acts the tenderfoot. They 're waitin' for the machine now to take 'em out to Glendale. Got some stunt to pull off this afternoon, so Billy was tellin' me. They're about half-stewed now. They make me sick."
Jim Tracy, who was sitting on a box, leaped to his feat. "Head first!" he cried. "That's some stunt!" And the audience seemed to think so, too, from the way it applauded. Joe Strong, having checked his rapid, head-first and head-on slide down the slanting wire by grasping it in his gloved hands, gave a "flip-flop" and stood up, bowing to the loud applause.
He don't do the bib act with his napkin, or try any sword-swallowin' stunt. "Now, what's it all about?" says I, as we gets to the pastry and demitasse. "Well," says Killam, after glancin' around sleuthy and seein' nobody more suspicious than a yawnin' 'bus boy, "I have found the lost treasure of José Caspar." "Have you?" says I, through a mouthful of strawb'ry shortcake. "When did he lose it?"
"Well, luckily for me, I pitched down into a good soft bed of earth but it put me out of action for the time, sure enough. He rubbed his hands together, and raised his eyebrows as I stared at him. 'Ah! he said. 'So our young friend is coming round again. Capital. Capital. "I did the usual stunt. Said: 'What's happened? And 'Where am I? But I knew the answer to the last well enough.
He did the social stunt on credit. Result: he got E's and F's on his grades and he was shipped. The faculty regards that kind of a student as demoralizing to the morale of a first-class institution. In fact he could not be called a student; he was an "inmate," and it is hard to make an alumni out of inmates.
"Now you must do a stunt!" shrieked Ray and Gertie; and Carl hesitatingly sang what he remembered of Forrest Haviland's foolish song: "I went up in a balloon so big The people on the earth they looked like a pig, Like a mice, like a katydid, like flieses and like fleasen." Then, without solicitation, Gertie decided to dance "Gather the Golden Sheaves," which she had learned at the school of Mme.
"'Course that ain't a regular circus act," she added, somewhat mollified, "and so far she's had to dress with the 'freaks, but the next thing we know, he'll be ringin' her in on a regular stunt and be puttin' her in to dress with US." "No danger of that," sneered the blonde; "Barker is too old a stager to mix up his sheep and his goats." Polly had again lost the thread of the conversation.
He heard Irene say something to her boy, and his answer: "Oh! no, Mum; this place is all right. My stunt." And the three sat down. At that moment, most awkward of his existence, crowded with ghosts and shadows from his past, in presence of the only two women he had ever loved his divorced wife and his daughter by her successor Soames was not so much afraid of them as of his cousin June.
At the same time Peagreen gave the boat a strong shove outward to where a current caught it and swept it further mockingly further, towards the darkening center of the Bowl. "Oh! I say I say, you fellows, that's no stunt to pull off!" roared the nickum wrathfully. "I'm due at the dance now!" "You're not coming to the dance.
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