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Schum's old negro cook, who wore her feet wrapped in gunny sacking, and every odd and end that came down in the day's waste baskets, from empty spools to nubs of pencil, stored away in the kink of her hair, would somehow invariably send up the giblets along with the Beckers' Sunday allotment of chicken. Mr.
They're comin' on mad for feed, tramplin' and bawlin', and they'll hit your place first mos' likely tho' they may turn south at Beckers better phone Beckers and see." "All right!" said Pearl, in a steady voice, "all right, and thank you."
All Tuzzi's frauds, all Coco's falsehoods tell, And all the Beckers all the rogues shall sell; How many sick some sapient quack at Rome Helps not to England, but their longer home; How many Couriers forge the scoundrel tale; How many Maids their mistress' fame assail; How many English girls, by foreign arts Seduced, have smiled on needy 'Knaves of Hearts! Or left our church, in spite of solemn 'caves, To score off sins by rosaries and aves!
Hazzard's tiny square of individual table, a perpetual bottle of brown medicine beside his place. The Kembles also enjoyed segregation from the mother table, the family invariably straggling in one by one. For the Beckers was reserved the slight bulge of bay window that looked out upon the Suburban street-car tracks and a battalion of unpainted woodsheds.
"Willis! can it be possible?" he exclaimed, taking at the same time the Pilot's proffered hand. "Yes, captain, as you see." "And the two young Beckers, as I live!" cried Littlestone. "Yes," said Jack, "and delighted to find you at last." Littlestone then shook them all heartily by the hand.
The barriers that separated the Guelphs from the Ghibelines, the Montagues from the Capulets, the Burgundians from the Armagnacs, and the House of York from that of Lancaster, could not have been more impenetrable than that which now existed between the Wolstons and Beckers.
Well, what we have we'll share, anyway. There's no use in contradictin' a bunch of hungry steers. Keep a watch on the phone, Pearlie dear, and find out which way they turn at Beckers'. We'll open up an oat stack for them, anyway so if they come rampin' in in the middle of the night there'll be something ready."
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