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Updated: May 19, 2025
These remarks came to mind the other day as I watched a group of New England youths lounging on the steps of the village store, or sitting in rows on a neighboring fence, until I longed to try if even a judicial arrangement of tacks, 'business-end up, on these favorite seats would infuse any energy into their movements.
She appeared to think for an instant, then, fumbling in her pocket-book, extracted a typical feminine pencil stub, its business-end looking as though it had been gnawed by a vindictive rat, and scribbled hastily on the back of a menu card: "Mrs. McCabe, 205 West 118th Street. Top floor. Ring 3 times." "I shall be there at seven," she told him. "You won't fail me?"
"This" was the hard, cold, polished business-end of a condemned Martini poked violently out of the blackness into the Slabbertian thorax. "Not in such a 'urry by 'arf, you perishin' Dopper," spluttered the ghastly little man in bandoliers behind the weapon. "Put up them dirty big 'ands o' yours, or, by Cripps! I'll let 'er off, you sneakin', match-talkin' spy!"
So, eating simply, sleeping deeply and working hard, they toughened in body and keened in mind the days all full of quickening interests, every next minute due to develop surprise. It was by a little headlong mountain stream, that the revelation came. Skag was looking to see which was the business-end of his tooth-brush that morning when Cadman broke his sheath knife.
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