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"There'll be plenty of jokes about it an' the smart Alecks will try to get the laugh on us because they'll be a thinkin' we don't know what dayboo means an' we'll take the laugh an' keep it 'til we need it. Lets go get the invites struck off over to the Ryeville Courier right now." The old men got busy immediately, although it was a lazy morning in June and the Rye House porch was shady and cool.
In the lines of graft we've worked we took money from the people the Lord made to be buncoed sports and rounders and smart Alecks and street crowds, that always have a few dollars to throw away, and farmers that wouldn't ever be happy if the grafters didn't come around and play with 'em when they sold their crops. We never cared to fish for the kind of suckers that bite here. No, sir.
"Oh, it might," she returned, sobering. "It might, if those people weren't such frozen-faced smart Alecks. If they'd had the decency to come down off the perch a little I probably wouldn't think it was funny, but to see 'em sit up on their pedestal all the time they're eating dirt well, I think it's funny!
In order that we may know His will and so be able to fulfill the conditions of salvation, He has given us the Holy Bible. He is responsible for the validity of that book, and we may defy all the smart Alecks and devils in the universe to invalidate a single essential word of it. The gist of the whole matter reduces to a simple syllogism.
"When the boys got back they found them smart Alecks, Bob Walsh and Andy Sweeney, waiting for 'em, and they consoled 'em, saying, That's just the way with that old bull-head. Never'll take no good advice from nobody about running' the company. Thinks he knows it all. You see how he runs the company. He haint got the addresses o' half his men this minnit, and don't know where they are.
Do you mean to say that you leave that hole there in the road right along that people keep on trying to avoid it and get stuck as I was? Oh! If I were an official " "Vell, I dunno, I don't guess I run my place to suit you smart alecks " "Papa! How you talk on the young lady! Make shame!" " from the city. If you don't like it, you stay bei Mineapolis! I haul you out for t'ree dollars and a half.
Scraggs, you old sinner, has it dawned on you that what this proposition needs to get it over is a dash o' the Adelbert P. Gibney brand of imagination?" The new navigating officer drew Captain Scraggs aside and whispered in his ear: "Make it up with these Smart Alecks, Scraggs.
"Well, there's a set of smart Alecks who've banded together and call themselves the Anti-Sweat League, or Work People's Aid Society, or any old name like that. They smell around to see what goes on behind the scenes in a department store, and drop on us if they can." "Oh, I see! And you thought they might have hired me " "I didn't think so, as a matter of fact.
It was like movin' a piano with somebody playin' on it, but we managed to seat him on the front floor o' the car, which took us all home. "So the affair ended without disgrace to any one, if not without violence, and no one knows of the cablegram save the few persons directly concerned. But the price of Alecks took a big slump in Pointview.
"Why," said Si, "I supposed that they was too tired to do anything but lay down and go to sleep. What'd they do?" "Better ask what they didn't do," replied the Orderly. "They done everything that a passel o' impish school boys could think of, and what they couldn't think of them smart Alecks down in the company put 'em up to. I'm going to put some o' them smarties through a course o' sprouts.
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