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Riots broke out in New York and Detroit, but the police were fortunately wellfed and the arms wielding the blackjacks which crushed the skulls of the undernourished rioters were stout. There was a sweeping revival of organized religion and men too broke to afford the neighborhood movie flocked to the churches.
"No reason for turning down there," he replied, forgetful of the gingerbread shop with the shaky little bell inside the door, the buttered gingerbread on the upper shelf for three cents and that without on the lower for two. She gathered her hopes now about Webb's Drugstore, where her grandfather sometimes stopped for a talk, and bought her rock candy, Gibraltars or blackjacks.
A committee of 'em ran some trace-chains through the armholes of my vest, and escorted me through their gardens and orchards. "Their fruit trees hadn't lived up to their labels. Most of 'em had turned out to be persimmons and dogwoods, with a grove or two of blackjacks and poplars.
"Well, I thought you wanted to win," grunted Steinert. "I've been offerin' you good stuff, too new stuff. None of yer druggin' with chloroform or ticklin' with blackjacks. Why, I've gone from fine-esse to common sense. But, come to think of it, how about some woman? I c'n get one to introduce to " "This is the wrong kind of a man," interrupted Peabody.
When the pickets were well out on the bridge, the imported thugs, some seventy in number, personally directed and urged on by their employer, Neil Jamison, poured in from either side, leaving no means of escape save that of making a thirty foot leap into the deep waters of the bay, and with brass knuckles and blackjacks made an attack upon the defenseless weavers.
For a moment he had a wild impulse to cast this covering off and scream, or at least, to jump from the speeding car. But a peek from underneath the robe convinced him of the folly of this. To jump would be to lose his life; to scream well, what chance would he have with two bloodthirsty robbers armed with seventy pistols and two blackjacks?
'What is bred in the bone, won't come out in the flesh! Some are cut out for one thing and some for another! Jerusalem artichokes won't bear hops, and persimmons don't grow on blackjacks!" She put her brawny brown hand on Edna's forehead, and smoothed the bands of hair, and sighed heavily. "Mrs. Wood, I should like to see Brindle once more."
They are familiarly known as "blackjacks," and can hold their own as pests with any weed of my acquaintance. But the most beautiful tree I have seen in Natal was an Acacia flamboyante.
The ci-devant cibolero does as directed, going at a gallop; while the colonel and his adjutant trot on to the clump of blackjacks, standing some three hundred paces out of the line of march. It was the same copse that gave shade and concealment to Frank Hamersley and Walt Wilder on the day preceding.
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