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Then they snaked me on to the caboose platform when the train was under way, pulled me inside and ran me half a mile up the track before they could stop her again. But that half-mile did the business for Mr. Howard. There he was spruce and dandified as you please, dressed fit to kill in a bang-up better suit than I ever hope to own, trying to sit behind a newspaper.
The old man ran a bang-up second, but he was 'carrying weight for age, and I fouled him in the stretch, by pulling a rocker in the way, that he stumbled over; then, I opened the door, kissed Pert good by, grabbed my hat, and did the slide for the road. The old joker tried to 'sic' the dogs on me, but they knew me so well they would n't 'sic." It had long been a pet scheme of Mr.
The colonels might every now and then have understood a word, and maybe a few of the captains and lieutenants, because Lieutenant Lansdown told me he understood every word the preacher said, and further informed me that it was none of your one-horse, old-fashioned country prayers that privates knew anything about, but was bang-up, first-rate, orthodox.
Evidently none of them could fully grasp the wonderful proposition entirely. They thought they must be dreaming. "Please don't wake me up; this is too bang-up for anything," said Will. "Frank, your equal never existed. Talk to me about your chums, no fellows ever had such a boss comrade as your fellow-members of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club!" declared Jerry.
"Licking good!" was the verdict, as Azalea stirred her coffee, and drank the tiny cupful at one draught. "The sample's fine! I'll take a regular sized cup, please." "For breakfast," smiled Patty. "That's all we serve at night. Are you fond of music, Azalea?" "You bet! Why, we've got some records that are just bang-up!" "I remember Uncle Thorpe was quite a singer," said Bill; "do you sing, too?"
"Wasn't that old beggar a slow coach?" said the beadle to his companion, as they went back to the sacristy. "We shall hardly have time to get breakfast, and to dress ourselves for the bang-up funeral of this morning. That will be something like a dead man, that's worth the trouble. I shall shoulder my halberd in style!"
That night Reuben brought home a large bag of peanuts and put them down in triumph on the kitchen table. "There!" he announced in high glee, "I'm goin' to have a bang-up good time!" "Why, Reuben," remonstrated his wife gently, "you can't eat them things you hain't got no teeth to chew 'em with!" The man's lower jaw dropped. "Well, I'm a-goin' to try it, anyhow," he insisted.
She had redeemed her sex in his eyes. Careless of whether he heard them, the men joked outrageously about Husky's condition. It was their way of hiding their helpless terror. "Well, old Husk is bound for the heavenly shore, I guess," said Jack. "We'll give him a bang-up funeral," suggested Joe. "Spill a little booze and carve a board to put at his head. It's the least we can do for a pal."
Darned if I don't have to confront Cabbage every day. I haven't yet surrendered, and I never shall unless the Germans get us. Cabbage and Germans belong together: God made 'em both the same stinking day. Now get a bang-up gardener no matter what he costs. Get him started. He must learn to grow these things absolutely better than they are now grown anywhere on earth. He must get the best seed.
We have difficulty in imagining a gang of stage-coachmen, even though they have been puffed off their boxes by the mighty blast of steam, combining, under the orders of Captain Brown or Jones, the gentleman driver of some Cambridge, Rockingham, or Brighton bang-up, to build barricades across railways and pick off engineers from behind a quickset hedge.
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