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Updated: May 14, 2025
"When the votes was in the hat, the tellers retired to the amusement room to count up. It took a long time. I see the Conservatives and Progressives nudgin' each other and winkin' back and forth. Five minutes, then ten, then fifteen. "And all of a sudden the biggest row bu'st loose in that amusement room that ever you heard. Rattlety bang! Biff! Smash!
Chalmers, Johnson, and even Applerod wrestled with him in spirit; his friends at the Idlers' Club "guyed" him unmercifully, and even Biff Bates, though his support was earnestly sought by the Signorina Caravaggio, also counseled him roughly against it, and through it all Bobby was made to feel that he was a small boy who had proposed to eat a peck of green apples and then go in swimming in dog-days.
Still the boys did not pay any attention. In this order they came into Nestorville. Lined up, with a look of stern determination on his face, and with his nickel star of office newly polished, was Chief Biff Bivins. Behind him were Lena Hardy and Joe Curley, his "force."
"Have them got large, sharp teeth?" "Oh, yes!" said Biff. "Much good for opening packages! Much nice, friends are. You be liking Droffs' friends. Me can take pretty queen and nice Elephant and friends to see Droffs' friend as shortly as you am finishing eatings. Me can show to other Droffs, too." "I would like that very much," said Ozma. "I think I will like the Droffs just fine."
When he was not much more than halfway up, and hanging to the rough bark with all his claws, biff! something sharp and very hot struck him in the nose. He grunted, and almost let go in his surprise. Naturally, he wanted to paw his nose for you know how it smarted!" "I guess so!" murmured the Babe in deepest sympathy, stroking the patch of mud on his ear. "But that cub had naturally a level head.
It was a rather poorly trained office employee, he thought, who would intrude herself into conversation that it was her duty to forget, but Biff Bates caught that look and stepped into the breach. "This is Nellie, Bobby that is, it used to be Nellie," he stated with a quick correction, and blushed violently.
"You am nice. Me likes you." "Me likes ... I mean, I like you, too," said Lisa. "Now tell me, do you know of the Saber-Toothed Light-Bulbs?" "Light-Bulbs?" echoed Biff. "Not know. Not do. Maybe friend know of that, though. Friend are much smart and also wise. Him have good and useful glass head. Him and him's people living close nearby. Them have seen much." "Hmmm," said Ozma.
Garry tossed back his head and laughed. "Biffy, are you listening to his Reverence, the Bishop of Cumberland? Here endeth the first lesson." Biff nodded over his high-ball. He wasn't listening discussions of any kind bored him. "But what do you care, Jack, what they say what anybody says?" continued Garry. "Keep right on. You are in the Street to make money, aren't you?
Biff Perkins an' his gang o' gorillers is out thar somewhar, not fur off, huntin' a chance fur deviltry. I'd like mouty t' git a whack at they'uns. Nance'll keep. She's mine now, fast an' good, for ever, an'll wait fur me. Afore we wuz spliced I wuz afeered Zach Barnstable mout work some contrivance t' git her, but now she belongs t' me." The boys took him to their hearts more than ever.
"I should scarcely think he would care to come here after the unfortunate outcome of the work I did for him," said Mr. Platt. "You mean on old Applerod's Subtraction?" "You couldn't hardly call it the Applerod Addition, could you?" responded Jimmy with a smile. "That was a most unlucky transaction for me as well as for Mr. Burnit." Biff looked about the room comprehendingly.
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