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"Can't you see now tired he is?" Al glanced at her from under his eyebrows. "He's all in, but he's got to make it," he said. "I've been that way myself and made it. What I can do, a horse can do. Come on, you yella-livered bonehead!" Snake went on, urged now and then by Al's quirt.
Here it comes, right in the groove. Bing! Batter slams it and streaks for first. Outfielder this lump of sugar boots it. Bonehead! Batter touches second. Third? No! Get back! Can't be done. Play it safe. Stick around the sack, old pal. Second batter up. Pitcher getting something on the ball now besides the cover. Whiffs him. Back to the bench, Cyril! Third batter up.
"I ought to be able to tell you a lot more," he said apologetically in conclusion. "I could if I wasn't such a bonehead." "But you've given me just what I wanted!" cried Miss Enid. "And you've made it all so vivid. It takes a very good mind to register details like that and to be able to present them in such good order." Quin looked at her quizzically.
Then, once aboard the lugger once in the house, I am at your orders. Use me exactly as you would have used Jerry Mitchell." "But but !" "Jerry!" said Jimmy scornfully. "Can't I do everything that he could have done? And more. A bonehead like Jerry would have been certain to have bungled the thing somehow. I know him well.
"That's all right," rejoined Clarie Deane; "but that's the second act, you bonehead, see! We ain't got the paper yet, have we? Say, take a look at that safe! It's easier ter scare him inter openin' it than ter crack it, ain't it?" Jimmie Dale, from his crouched position, began to rise to his feet slowly, making but the slightest movement at a time, cautious of the least sound.
He named every citizen of the town, living or dead, that ever got to be known outside his own family, and he brought children into the world and married them and read the funeral service over them, and still that bonehead from the woods sat there, his mouth open, and says: 'It's beyond me how you know all that. You New Yorkers are slicker then I give ye credit for. But you can't fool me.
And it was good business, too, for more than once when some precinct bonehead that pipe-dreamed he was a detective was pussy-catting some cold rat-hole, there was me vanbibbering in the white light at the swellest joints in little old New York! Funny, wasn't it? And handy! And I was learning, too learning things worth good money to know.
Gentlemen," he goes on, shakin' hands right and left without noticin' how reluctant some of the palms came out, "I er I have a little announcement to make." "Humph!" snorts old Busbee. "Have you?" "Yes," says Mr. Robert, smilin' mushy. "I er the fact is, I am going to be married." "The bonehead!" I whispers husky.
No, sir! Not for D. Bonehead Pickering, the amateur trailing arbutus! Subconscious Self may have had an undesirable way of expressing itself, but there was no denying the truth of what it said. Its words carried conviction. Mr Pickering replaced the ring in his pocket, and, burying his head in his hands, groaned in bitterness of spirit. He had lost her. He must face the fact.
'Hit it out, meant that he would use an outcurve, and " "Holy smoke!" gasped Hooker. "It's a wonder nobody got on. Do you suppose Lander " "Nit. That big bonehead didn't tumble. He was simply sore because I was a student at Oakdale and seemed to be rooting for Barville. All the same, he stuck to me like a leech, and I had to quit or get into a nasty fight with him.
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