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In the fourth Springer's work justified the confidence Eliot had expressed, for he followed Sanger's example by striking out Pratt and Whiting and forcing the dangerous Copley to hit weakly to the infield. "Another goose egg for them," exulted Chipper Cooper. "It begins to look like a shut-out. These two tallies of ours may be a-plenty."
He said, no; said the cistern was awful low and 'twould use up all the water. She said no such thing; there was water a-plenty. To prove she was wrong he went and pried the cistern cover off to look, and fell in. Mrs. Clark peeked down and saw him there, standin' up to his neck. "'Tabby, says he, 'you would have your way and I'm takin' the bath.
Had he meant to murder me, I reflected, he had done the business long since. Then I fell asleep. I awoke, I know not how soon, to discover the same shaggy countenance, and the lanthorn. "Canst walk, Mechlin?" says he. "I can try, at least," I answered. He seemed pleased at this. "You have courage a-plenty, and, by G , you will have need of it all with that of a Griggs!"
You may have haltered all your traitors, but there's still a-plenty German spies living in England. Even you admit that. And if they can get by your Secret Service, to say nothing of Scotland Yard, what's to prevent their fixing to leave the country?" "Nothing, certainly. But I still contend it is hardly likely." "Of course it's hardly likely.
And there were churches everywhere as tall as trees and school-houses a-plenty; and big schools, called colleges, to which the boys went when they were through with the little schools. The master had gone to one of these colleges for a year, and he was trying to make enough money to go again.
I'll certainly interfere with that man's career a-plenty. 'Not serious! He won't make any such report about himself when I get through fussing with him. He certainly does need handling that Ben Steptoe." And so on for half an hour at a time, while he might be stitching G. W. G. in purple letters on a strip of yellow satin ribbon.
"Oh, no, not oranges; indeed, it hasn't any leaves on, but I think maybe they'll come." "It must be beautiful!" said Patty. "But if it hasn't any leaves on, it's probably dead." "Oh, no, Miss Patty, it isn't dead; and it had leaves a-plenty, but my little brother he picked the leaves all off. That's one reason I wanted to come here, so's to get my orange tree away from Jack."
Well, I was so hungry for the ways and the sober talk I was used to, that I tried to ring in with the old people, but they wouldn't have it. They considered me a conceited young upstart, and gave me the cold shoulder. Two weeks was a-plenty for me. I was glad to get back my bald head again, and my pipe, and my old drowsy reflections in the shade of a rock or a tree."
But there's one thing you KIN be cocksure of and that's a big doctor-bill unlest you do what I sayed." "Now that I know who she lent the book off of there ain't nothin' to bother her about," sullenly granted Mr. Getz. "And as fur punishment she's had punishment a-plenty, I guess, in her bein' so sick." "All right," the doctor said magnanimously.
Shoes on the feet, buckles on the shoes, and heels. Sort of frill around on top. The feller that made them things could shore do candy a-plenty. They was too pretty to eat up, so the little woman, she done put 'em in the parlor, on the table like, in the middle of the floor; tied 'em together with a blue ribbon and left 'em there.
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