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We wanna get in on it while the tamales are hot." She grasped his arm closer, and straightening her velveteen poke-bonnet so that the curls lay pat, together they wormed through the sidewalk crush; once or twice she coughed, with the hollow resonance of a chain drawn upward from a deep well. "Gee! I bet there'll be a jam!" "Sure! There's some live crowd down there."
You got brains, and you can bet you'll need every single one of 'em if you wanna get to the bottom of this business." "Under the circumstances, then, what's yore advice, Judge?" "I ain't got no particular advice to give," replied Dolan, promptly. "I'm a judge, not a lawyer, but I'm free to say even if I was a lawyer, I dunno exactly what I'd do, or where I'd begin." Racey nodded.
"You can," Luke Tweezy declared with evident relish. "That is, you can if Lanpher wants to make a complaint." "You hear, Lanpher?" asked Racey, still more nervously. "You wanna make a complaint, huh?" Lanpher had not failed to note the nervousness of Racey's tone. Now he licked his lips again. He felt quite cheerful of a sudden.
In spite of herself her lips quivered and an ague shot through her body. "I I gotta go home now, Jimmie. Look at me shivering, all shivering!" "Home now!" His eyes retreated behind a network of calculating wrinkles and she paled as she sat. "Home now? Say, Doll, I thought " "Honest, I wanna go to the other place, but I'm cold, Jimmie, and wet through.
"I ain't worked six months for nothing yet," pointed out Racey. "The six months ain't up yet. You wanna remember, Salt, that a race ain't over till the horses cross the line." "You gotta prove Jack Harpe's connection," began Mr. Saltoun. Racey topped his mount, but as the horse started he held him up. "Lessee who's coming," he suggested, jerking his thumb over his shoulder. He and Mr.
He made you a small paddle himself." "Well, he won't let me." "Did John tell you why?" "He just won't let me. He says I can't peddle all alone by myself till I c'n swim'n dive real good. I wanna peddle all alone by myself like them." He pointed to two canoes in the distance, each propelled by a lone figure. "Well, Thomas, can you swim as well as Uncle John?"
I says to him to-night, I says, 'When I look at myself in the glass, I wanna die." "You're all there yet, Hanna. Your voice over here the other night was something immense. Big enough to cut into any restaurant crowd, and that's what counts in cabaret. I don't tell anybody how to run his life, but if I had your looks and your contralto, I'd turn 'em into money, I would.
I wanna get you all by yourself and talk to you right in your little ear." "Shh-h-h! You mustn't talk like that." "That's the only way I have of trying to tell you how how I feel, Miss Sadie dearie." "Shh-h-h!" "When I call you that it means well, you know, dearie, you know. That's why I wanna take you to-night, dearie, all by your little self and " "No, no, Mr. Meltzer!
Guess she'd cry too'f she could see the other kids that waited for him to go and ask her if she could see them moving off, tired of waiting. They're 'most up to Lincoln Avenue. "Oooooooooooo-hoo hoo hoo hoohoooooooooo-ah! I wanna gow-ooooo." "Did you hoe that corn your father told you to?" "Oooooooooooo-hoo-hoo-hoo-oooooooo! I wanna gow-ooooooo." "Robbie! Did you hoe that corn?"
"Oh, my Gawd," cried he, vehemently. "What deh hell do yeh wanna hang aroun' here fer? Do yeh wanna git me inteh trouble?" he demanded with an air of injury. Astonishment swept over the girl's features. "Why, Pete! yehs tol' me " Pete glanced profound irritation. His countenance reddened with the anger of a man whose respectability is being threatened. "Say, yehs makes me tired. See?
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