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"Yeh, I bet they looked like it, too. This ain't the farm. I got all I can do to tend to the house, without sewing." "I did it. I did the housework and the sewin' and cookin', an' besides " "A swell lot of housekeepin' you did. You don't need to tell me." The bickering grew to a quarrel. But in the end they took the downtown L together.
I scrap with a man jest as soon as he ses scrap, an' if yeh wanta scrap, I'm yer kitten. Understan' dat?" The policeman said sharply "Come, now; what's all this?" He had a distinctly business air. The little Cuban stepped forward calmly. "It is none of your business." The policeman flushed to his ears. "What?" One well-dressed man touched the other on the sleeve.
Nickie had not left the cage all night, preferring to sleep in his skin rather than risk a sudden descent on the part of the enemy. "What'd yeh do it fer?" said the Skeleton; "a great lath-an'-plaster she-emu like that, too." "Not having anything else to do, Matthew," moaned the Missing Link. "I always was tender with women." "Well, yiv gotter look out, ol' man.
'Don't mention it, sez father. Then the doctor went on quite nice, 'Yeh see, Mr. Fallows, the truth is, we don't hunderstand these things very well, sez 'e.
Where you goin' t' sleep?" His friend waved his hand impatiently. "Right down there by yeh." "Well, but hol' on a minnit," continued the youth. "What yeh goin' t' sleep in? I've got your " The loud young soldier snarled: "Shet up an' go on t' sleep. Don't be makin' a damn' fool 'a yerself," he said severely. After the reproof the youth said no more. An exquisite drowsiness had spread through him.
The big French-Canadian pulled at his beard. "Peuff! Eet is like the ground hog," he announced. "Eet is underground already." "Yeh. But I've got to get in there. The wire might be working." "So? We will help, Baree and Ba'teese. Come we get the shovels." Even that was work. The town simply had ceased to be; the stores were closed, solitude was everywhere.
During the convention, there will be some kind of filler stuff from the central office." "Yeh!" snorted one of the men. "That's the dope, all right. One of us is stuck, but if it's me I'll walk out and head for the desert." Stimson looked at him with a sardonic smile. "I forgot to mention: the doors will be locked and barred, and of course there's no such thing as windows." Wasil whistled.
I guess I 'ain't bin savin' all these years, with a good carpenter business, without gittin' somethin' ahead. Say, 'Ria" it was he who blushed now, his round face close to hers "yeh can have anything yeh want. I'm that glad t' git yeh at last, I'd spend all I have!" Her thin hand responded for an instant to the pressure of his and then coyly withdrew itself.
"Mine," with equanimity. "Seriously sleuth! are you trying to make a charge against me of stealing my own property?" "Yeh done it for a blind. 'Nd that's enough. Officer, take this man to the station; I'll make the complaint." The policeman hesitated, and at this juncture O'Hagan put in an appearance, lugging a heavy brown-paper bundle. "Beg pardon, Misther Maitland, sor ?" "Well, O'Hagan?"
"Come ahn, deh hull damn gang of yehs, come ahn," she roared at the spectators. An oath or two, cat-calls, jeers and bits of facetious advice were given in reply. Missiles clattered about her feet. "What deh hell's deh matter wid yeh?" said a voice in the gathered gloom, and Jimmie came forward. He carried a tin dinner-pail in his hand and under his arm a brown truckman's apron done in a bundle.
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