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Candy, postal-cards, cameras, sporting-goods, stamps, cigars, stationery, fruit-sirups, all the things in fact, that the firm's customers, all over the state, carried in their little country stores, were "B. O." Miss Murray had invoices for them all, and checked them off as fast as she could find their places on the duplicates.
Men work at money-lending or manufacturing sporting-goods, and when they get old and tired they make the thrilling discovery that they have souls; the theosophists cultivate these souls and they leave their money to the soul-cause, and there are lawsuits and exposes in the newspapers.
There was a folding camp table of the kind shown in the window display of sporting-goods stores, but which seasoned campers find too wobbly for actual comfort. The varnish still shone on legs and braces, which helped to prove its newness.
How soon do you think it will be? Fred will have to teach me how to trout-fish or whatever you call it. Only think of stepping out of our log cabin and catching trout, just any time you want to! And, Kate, I really am going to buy a gun. Down on Spring, in that sporting-goods house you know, the one on the corner they have got the cutest rifles!
The various packages were wrapped, handed to the boy, and she accompanied the latter to the door and showed him our equipage standing before the sporting-goods dealer's. Then she sauntered back. "Thank you," she said, addressing the clerk. "That is all, I believe." The clerk looked at her and at me. "Yes, miss, thank you," he said, in return.
She nodded. "Yes," she said, "I want to stop now. Please pull up over there, in front of that shop with the cricket bats in the window." The shop was what we, in America, would have called a "sporting-goods store." I piloted "Pet" to the curb and pulled up. "I am going in," said Miss Morley. "Oh, don't trouble to help me. I can get down quite well."
So I left and went home. On my way home, though, I stopped in this sporting-goods store at 724 Prospect Avenue. It was owned by Bill Bradley and Ryan ... Phylli ... I mean, Charlie Carr. Charlie managed and played first base for Indianapolis in the American Association. Bill, as I think I may have mentioned before, played third base for Cleveland.
"We have been to every sporting-goods and arms-store in the city which bought them from the factory, and I could lay my hands on pretty nearly every one of the weapons in twenty-four hours provided, of course, they haven't been secreted or destroyed." "Pretty nearly all isn't good enough," said Kennedy. "It will have to be all, unless " "That name is in the list," whispered Riley hoarsely.
It seemed almost too contemptible to be true, since Hugh could easily purchase other garments down at the sporting-goods store in Scranton.
Knowles," she said. "I shall be back very soon." She hurried away. I looked after her, and then, with all sorts of forebodings surging in my brain, strode into that "sporting-goods store." The blond young man was at my elbow. "Yes, sir," he said, ingratiatingly. "Did did that young lady make some purchases here?" I asked. "Yes, sir. Here they are, sir."
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