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And the hum resolved itself into what it was: the rising, random mockery of Ta-te, the tempest, laughing at their searching looks, going north, south, east and west, aloft, skirmishing in bewilderment to all points of the horizon. "Hum-m. There isn't a sign of a buzz-wagon!
"The chicken has hold of my arm comin' out of the door, but she lets go of it 'n' then steps up straight to the buzz-wagon. "'I can't keep my engagement with you this evening, she says. 'My brother's in town and I'm going to be with him. "'Bring your brother along, says the guy, 'n' I know by that he's got it bad. "'I can't very well, she says. 'We have some family matters to talk over.
Here was a man not to be annoyed by the mere filching of his story. Here was a man with a sense of humor an opponent worthy his foe's best efforts. In his rôle of a haberdasher overcome with woe, Mr. Magee listened. "I used to paint dames like that," Bland was saying to the dazed professor. He explained how his pictures had enabled many a novelist to "eat up the highway in a buzz-wagon."
"Before ever we were born our folks were walkin' across the plains together." "When your folks was waitin' for the railroad to be built an' all the Indians killed off before they dasted to start for California," was Billy's way of proclaiming the new alliance. "We're the real goods, Saxon an'n me, if anybody should ride up on a buzz-wagon an' ask you."
Newton said not to attempt any rescue." "We ain't was going to. Back to headquarters an' report an' me for my motor-bike. Mr. Newton mebbe can get a car in Buffalo Center an' mebbe he can't; but no heavy old buzz-wagon can get where my motor-bike can't catch 'em." Mr. Newton agreed to Chick-chick's plan of chase rather more readily than he had expected.
He is so strong, confident and easy in his execution of shots. If I could drive like he does I would be willing to lose a dozen balls every time I played." I changed the subject, and was showing her a new way to grip the club when I heard a step behind us. "Hello, Smith! If you are going out in that buzz-wagon with me, Kid, you had better drop that stick and get a move on."
I go over to Philadelphia to-morrow to race in a "buzz-wagon," as you call it. I don't want you to think me entirely chicken-hearted and I'll take you with me, if Brown can spare you. "The next day he shows up in the battle-ship. "'Blister, he says, 'I don't know just how far I'll be willing to go in the affair, but if you can get Rainbow, I'll buy him. "'Now you've said somethin', I says.
"I'll risk it since you've broke trail," he said, taking the vacant seat behind. "But I knew if I took chances with snow, in this contrary buzz-wagon of mine, she'd likely skid off the first mean curve." Morganstein, laughing, changed his seat for the one beside the prospector. "It's like this, dry and firm as a floor, straight through to Wenatchee.
Say, how did you get in here?" "T'roo de libery windows." "I always knew some yegg would stroll in that way. It beats me why they didn't have bars fixed on them." "Dere's a buzz-wagon outside, waitin'." "You do it in style, don't you?" observed Ogden, pulling on his shirt. "Who's working this with you? Any one I know?" "Naw. A new guy." "Oh? Say, I don't remember you, if it comes to that."
"'Come back for me, Blister, she says, 'when you get your horses put up. There's a Johnny in this town that's pestering the life out of me. He wants me to go to 'Frisco with him. "When I gets back to the theater I sees a green buzz-wagon at the stage door with a guy 'n' a shofe in it.
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