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"I've been down by the quay pool, and I've got acquainted with a lot of A1 chaps that have agreed to take me drift-fishing every night, and they are going to put out the Clovelly lifeboat for exercise this week, and if the weather is fine, Bill Marks is going to take Atlas and me to Lundy Island. You don't catch me round the evening lamp very much in Clovelly."
So far Tiddle'ums had acted as fence, when we were in, at the homestead, scattering fowls, goats, and dairy cows in all directions if they dared come over a line she had drawn in her mind's eye. When Tiddle'ums was out-bush with us, Bett-Bett acted as fence. Johnny, generally repairing the homestead now, admired the garden and declared everything would be "A1 in no time."
Of course, it's the easy thing and the pleasant thing not to refuse, and after all, most men think, it doesn't cost anything but a few strokes of the pen, and so they will give a fellow that they wouldn't ordinarily play on their friends as a practical joke, a nice sloppy letter of introduction to them; or hand out to a man that they wouldn't give away as a booby prize, a letter of recommendation in which they crack him up as having all the qualities necessary for an A1 Sunday-school superintendent and bank president.
His neighbor looked at him for a moment, and repeated the question in a tone of incredulity "Who is Sly?" as if he had said, Who is George Washington? "Yes; I don't think that I know him." "Don't know Sly?" "No." "Well, if you did know him, you'd know that he's just the man we want; bang up; made for it." "Oh, is he?" "You bet A1."
Anything to it?" asked Dud. "Paid seven thousand down, time on the balance," Mike said. "How you lads makin' it on Elk?" "Fine. We got the best preëmptions on the river. Plenty of good grass, wood an' water handy, a first-class summer range. It's an A1 layout, looks like." "At the end of nowhere, I reckon," Mike grinned. "The best steers are on the edge of the herd," Dud retorted cheerfully.
Try it, sir, see if it will move a hinch." I tried the port, and found it perfectly tight. "Well, sir," continued Robert, triumphantly, "I wager my reputation as a A1 steward, that in 'arf an hour it will be open again; fastened back, too, sir, that's the horful thing fastened back!" I examined the great screw and the looped nut that ran on it.
Stoning plums and chopping suet seemed to afford them immense pleasure I suppose it was a novelty; and, contrary to the fact implied in the old adage, "too many cooks spoil the broth" our pudding turned out A1. In the afternoon we strolled about, and paid a visit to our shipmates. I was certainly most agreeably surprised by the quiet and order that everywhere prevailed.
I'm going to give in your name as a candidate, Mavis! I'm just writing it now." "Thanks! Won't you put Merle too?" "Oh, I will if you like." Somehow I never thought of Merle." "She's a splendid leader, and A1 at games. You should have seen her at Whinburn High!" "Oh, I daresay! Well, to please you I'll put her name on my list. It can do no harm at any rate." "Thanks ever so!"
As she pondered on the card, wondering if she dared put it in her pocket, he said in a matter-of-fact way, again extending the wallet: "Don't hesitate, take the deck, may come handy, father like to keep goods in stock some time. That's my regular; carry a side line too, perfumes and an A1 hair restorer. Got all my samples at Oaklands depot. You mind stopping there on the way?
He slung imported A1 fancy groceries about as though they were only the stuff he delivered at boarding-houses; and when he picked up his whip, your mind instantly recalled Mr. Tackett and his air with the buttonless foils. Tradesmen delivered their goods at a side gate at the rear of the house. The grocer's wagon came about ten in the morning.
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