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It lasts until all hands seem to be pretty well out of breath and someone blows a whistle. Then a couple of 'em drags Hartley up in front of Brother Beans and salutes. "Well, right worthy Buddies," says he, "what have you to report concerning the candidate?" "Sorry, sir," says one, "but we caught him tryin' to run the guard." "Ah!" says Beans. "Did he get away with it?"
On the following afternoon Murphy, the Railroad Sales Manager, stopped on his way past Mitchell's desk to inquire: "Say, have you been sending orchids to Miss Dunlap over at the Santa Fe? I was in there this morning, and she wanted to know all about you." "Did you boost me?" Louis inquired. "It won't hurt your sales to plug my game." "She said you and she are 'buddies' over the wire.
I could not but remember how often, when in her company at Cannes, I had gazed dumbly at her, wishing that some kindly motorist in a racing car would ease the situation by coming along and ramming her amidships. As I have already made abundantly clear, this girl was not one of my most congenial buddies. However, a Wooster's word is his bond. Woosters may quail, but they do not edge out.
I had a hot prospect lined up for a demonstration that morning, but I didn't even stop to give him a ring. Vic and I had been buddies ever since we were kids and, besides, he was Hope's brother. Vic's place was out on the river, about ten miles from town, and that little tan roadster of mine made it in just about ten minutes. The traffic in the business district slowed me up a bit.
So I suppose you're going to tell me that you are close buddies with Three-Fingered Brown, Chance, Tinker and Evans I mean, Evers and all of those fellows? "'No, I said. 'I don't know them. But some day I'll be playing with them, or against them, because I'm going to get in the Big Leagues. "'Where are you going now? asked the firemen. "'Back home to Cleveland, I told them.
But a few dollars invested in Martinis for old buddies in the Kittyhawk Room of the Biltmore Hotel in Dayton, or the Men's bar in the Statler Hotel in Washington, produces a lot of straight and reliable information much better than you get through official channels. There was no "silence" order I learned, only the same old routine.
At this time he had picked up a couple of cur buddies, and was staying with the Americans at the front, having perpetual pass good at any part of the four-square outpost. But the British officer reported him to the American officer as a sure-enough trained Bolshevik patrol dog and threatened to shoot him.
"Maybe I didn't want to trade horses in the middle of the stream." "Any other reason?" "Well, hang it all! a fellow builds up some pride in the uniform he wears. A good many of our buddies have gone out for their last ride in this uniform and and it stands for a lot.
"Gone!" exclaimed Blake disconsolately, as he looked about. "And we'll perhaps never get another chance to make such pictures again!" "It surely is tough luck!" exclaimed Joe. They saw a sentry on guard, for this place was far enough from the lines of both forces to obviate the use of trenches. "What are you looking for, Buddies?" asked the soldier, who knew the moving picture boys.
In the city the doughboy found the steaming bahnya or bathhouse, and at the "cootie mill" turned in his shirt to rid himself of the "seam squirrels." All cleaned up, with little gifts and cheery words he sought his buddies who were in hospital sick or wounded. He got books and records and gramaphones and other things at the Red Cross and "Y" to take back to the company.
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