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"No, and don't want to; and, if this is a try-on to get me to stand beer, it's a dead failure!" "Not quite!" said Dick, smiling, though his heart ached. "Look here, do you want a tanner?" cried Jerry, snappishly. "Well, I am short of money," said Dick, as a sudden thought came to mind; "but not a tanner. Pay me the sovereign you borrowed of me!" "What?"

It was several minutes before she returned, her radiant face registered the news that the long-looked-for express package had materialized. "At last!" was her jubilant cry when half way across the lawn. "No more work for me until after luncheon. Come up to the house, both of you. The grand try-on is about to begin. We'll just have time for it before luncheon.

But I stand for Church and King, and so shall the boys, as sure as my name's Ben Marston. Father was one of those people that gets shut of a deal of trouble in this world by always sticking to one thing. If he said he'd do this or that he always did it and nothing else. As for turning him, a wild bull half-way down a range was a likelier try-on.

It was only a try-on, that." "Some try-ons fit," said Crowther gravely. He turned towards the table, and reached for the drink he had prepared for Piers. "Look here, sonny! Have a drink!" Piers drank in silence, Crowther steadily watching. "You would have to be back by March," he said presently. "What?" said Piers.

There was no doubt they believed it, for they murmured in admiration "My word! Missus big mob cheeky fellow all right." But in their admiration they forgot that they were supposed to be quaking with fear themselves, and took no precautions against the pretended attack. "Putting themselves away properly," the Dandy said when I told him about it. "It was a try-on all right," he added.

Then we had the detective try-on and it proved no go; and then, when all the money was gone, except a halfpenny of mine and twopence of Noel's and three-pence of Dicky's and a few pennies that the girls had left, we held another council. Dora was sewing the buttons on H. O.'s Sunday things. He got himself a knife with his money, and he cut every single one of his best buttons off.

The girl's last "try-on" was to come down to the school fence, and ostentatiously sharpen a table-knife on the wires, while she scowled murderously in the direction of the schoolmistress, who was hanging out her washing. August looked, in her dark, bushy, Maori hair, a thoroughly wild savage.

Templeton Thorpe ordered a new suit of clothes for himselfor, to be quite precise, he instructed Wade to order it. He was in need of a new suit anyway, he said, and he had put off ordering it for a long, long time, not because he was parsimonious but because he did not like going up town for the "try-on."

So between the horse trade and the road trade we could see a fortune sticking out, ready for us to catch hold of whenever we were ready to collar. Our first try-on in the coach line was with the Goulburn mail. We knew the road pretty well, and picked out a place where they had to go slow and couldn't get off the road on either side.

Dave changed his linen as quickly as he could, while Hepson appeared with three borrowed dress coats for a try-on. One was found to fill the bill. Resting it over a chair, Darrin slipped on his service blouse and reported to the O.C. Permission was granted to borrow a dress coat.