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I told him I never did take, and never had taken, more than a little hot wine and water when I had a cold, and I couldn't see what good it would do to George Jenkins and the poor fellows at the Spread Eagle if I took ever so many vows. 'There's a regular blue-ribbon fever set in, said Miss Nugent.
First he removed the safety-pin with which the top edges of the pocket were held securely together. Then he brought out a bit of cardboard wrapped carefully in a wonderfully clean red handkerchief. Whipping the handkerchief from the cardboard, he held out to Conniston's gaze the picture it concealed. "That's her, Con. An' I'll leave it to you if she ain't in the blue-ribbon class, huh?"
Well, they've got a new branch o' the work there for the surrounding civilian poor, called the Helping Hand. You see, Miss Robinson understands us soldiers out and out. She knew that those among us who gave up drink and sin, and put on the blue-ribbon, were not goin' to keep all the benefit to ourselves.
He fixed me with a wandering glance, kicked his dog viciously, and inquired where he was. Clearly he was very drunk. 'That's what comes o' bein' a teetotaller, he observed in bitter regret. I expressed my surprise that in him I should have met a blue-ribbon stalwart. 'Ay, but I'm a strong teetotaller, he said pugnaciously.
She led them down one street and up another, into a white doorway before any of them had a chance to discover the name of the building, through a maze of aisles and a surging throng of weary sightseers, and paused in the cake department, pointed toward a blue-ribbon cake in one case, and said triumphantly, "Peace's geography cake was the hit of the evening last Saturday, but it took the caramel layer to win the prize, Faith!"
"I wonder if my goose will be a little lonely," said Tattine, as they all stood about, watching Patrick nail on the laths. "Faith and it will thin," said Mrs. Kirk. "It never came to my moind that they wouldn't all three be together. Here's little Grey-wing to keep Blue-ribbon company," and Mrs.
"Your father had twenty-two registered ancestors, had your father," old Guardian says, "and in him was the best bull-terrier blood of England, the most ancientest, the most royal; the winning 'blue-ribbon' blood, that breeds champions.
"Your liver's out of kilter," interpolated Dorothy. "No, sir!" protested young Nisbet. "Nothing is ever out of kilter inside me! If I'm nothing else, I'm blue-ribbon boy on the health question. No, it's something I want, and that I'm pretty sure I can't get." "I know perfectly well what it is," said Dorothy, "and you haven't even asked for it!" Young Nisbet looked up suddenly.
They appear not to exert themselves, yet they always get the ball in perfect time. It all reminds me of of the rhythm of music. And that champion batter and runner that Lane in center isn't he just beautiful? He walks and runs like a blue-ribbon winner at the horse show. I tell you one thing, Connie, these Quakers are on dress parade."
This life of idleness you been leadin' one continual potlatch the whole time it wa'n't doin' you a bit of good." "We'll get action, don't you worry. Now let's have lunch down-stairs, and then go for a drive. It's too fine a day to stay in. I'll order the cart around and show you that blue-ribbon cob I bought at the horse show. I just want you to see his action. He's a beaut, all right.
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