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They say that every man should have a master, but, for my part, I prefer a mistress. Give me a nice young woman with plenty of money in her pocket, and a bit of taste for seeing life, and I'll leave you all the prying "amatoors" that ever sniffed about a gear-box without knowing what was inside that same.
"Amatoors," said Mr. Hoopdriver. Jessie stood staring, and a veil of thought dropped over her eyes. She no longer regarded the two men who were now tinkering at the machine down below there. "How much have you?" she said. He thrust his right hand into his pocket and produced six coins, counted them with his left index finger, and held them out to her. "Thirteen four half," said Mr. Hoopdriver.
I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. I have never had any complaint to make of amatoors.
I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. I have never had any complaint to make of amatoors.
"Out of the fresh air," replied the operator. "From most anywhere inside the zone of communication." "Couldn't you tell who sent it?" "No way. It wasn't signed. Come from quite a distance, though." "How can you tell that?" "You can tell by the way it sounds. Say, they ought to be a law about these amatoors cluttering up the air this way.
"Heaven help you! Basement?" "No, ground floor." "Thank your stars. That's a cut above. Most amatoors start in the basement bargain sales. If they live through the first day of that well! But you're all right. You've got the look of the ones who win." "That's my name 'Win' Winifred Child." "If you ain't the Champion Giant Kid! I'm Sadie Kirk. Here's the schoolroom.
"When it comes to that, your guess is as good as mine, but they'll spell trouble for the amatoors and the trouble-makers, I reckon. I ain't placin' any bets yet, but that's about the way it stacks up to me." Williams let the 266 out another notch, hung out of his window to look back at the smoking hot box, and, in the complete fulness of time, said, "Think he's got the sand, Andy?"
"'To think, he says, more in sorrow than in anger, 'to think that I should live to see this day! To think that me, who helped Canady Bill sell the first gold brick that ever was molded in this country, should in my declining years have a couple of wooden-fingered amatoors come along and try to slip me the oldest graft in the known world! It is too much, he says, 'it is too much too much.
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