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I have something funny to tell you." "I have something to tell you, too," breathed Teola. "Is it pleasant?" demanded the boy, bending and forcing the lowered eyes to his. Teola shook her head. "Then we will leave it until to-morrow," he exclaimed. "I'll tell you my news. Shorts, Spuddy and Swipes are in disgrace at the fraternity.
Cloam had long been ambitious to have a voice in the selection of her raw material. If anything was good, who got the credit? Mr. Swipes, immediately. But if everything was bad, as more often happened, who received the blame? Mary Knuckledown.
Mary could not give up the paper, because it was a letter from one of her adorers, which, with the aid of Jenny Shanks, she had interpreted. "No, no," she said, with a coaxing look; "by-and-by, Mr. Swipes, when you have told me who it is, and when you have promised not to tell on poor Miss Dolly. But nobody sha'n't see it, without your permission. We'll have another talk about that to-morrow.
Grigsby, when Charley hastened back to find him and tell him. Mr. Grigsby was so tall, that he had seen as well as Charley, who was little and could squeeze about under people's arms. "It's a wonder. That kind of person usually swipes the best seat." "I'm glad, aren't you?" answered Charley. "Maybe we won't have any more trouble with him." "Humph! Can't count on that yet," asserted Mr. Grigsby.
"For the love of all that's good, Shorts," groaned Spuddy, "let me get into the house and change my clothes.... There goes Swipes again in the snow. Get up, fool, here's the 'Captain." "To to the devil with the 'Captain," muttered Swipes. But Dan's next sentence completely awoke the senses of all save Swipes. He only grasped it dimly through the cobwebs of his drunken brain.
"It would take a better Frenchman," said the Admiral, with that brevity which is the happy result of stoutness up steep hill, "than any of 'they flat-bottoms, as Swipes, my gardener, calls them, to get through these prickles, Stubbard, without Sark-blewing. Such a wonderfully thin-skinned lot they are! Did I ever tell you the story of our boatswain's mate?
Swipes used to say in the earlier days of his empire "bless you, my lord, they cocks and hens knows a good bit of gardening as well as I do.
"They sell good beer at Haslemere And under Guildford Hill; At little Cowfold, as I've been told, A beggar may drink his fill. There is good brew at Amberley too. And by the bridge also; But the swipes they takes in at the Washington Inn Is the very best beer I know."
"Let's pick up our fish, and stroll back, fellows," proposed Paul, finally. "Lucky to have any fish, with that hog around," remarked Bobolink. "Now you're meaning the wild man, I take it?" said Jack. "No other; the fellow that drops in on you when you ain't expectin' company, and just swipes your string of fish like he did Jud's.
He had not the least idea that this had cost ten guineas as much as his own good self was worth; for it happened to be the first dahlia seen in that part of the country. That gaudy flower at its first appearance made such a stir among gardeners that Mr. Swipes gave the Admiral no peace until he allowed him to order one.
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