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Updated: June 17, 2025
And mamma and papa have gone to the Metropolitan to hear De Reszke. But that isn't my fault. It only shows how long the story has been knocking around among the editors. If the author had been wise he'd have changed it to Caruso in the proofs." "Be quiet," hissed the burglar, under his breath. "If you raise an alarm I'll wring your neck like a rabbit's." "Like a chicken's," corrected Tommy.
He buries it in the ground to sech degrees that nothin' but the head an' neck protroodes. An' as the Mexicans goes flashin' by on their broncos, each in turn swings down an' makes a reach for the chicken's head.
O'Brien's oath wasn't any oath at all! What kind of a chicken's head?" "A white rooster." "Quite so!" nodded Mr. Tutt. "Your Honor, I object to this witness being sworn by any oath or in any form except on the head of a white rooster!" "Well, I don't happen to have a white rooster about me!" remarked O'Brien, while the jury rocked with glee. "Ask him if something else won't do.
You see, Clarence, after the old cat that's your wife, please left, I wanted to make sure she had gone, and wasn't hangin' round to lead you off again with your leg tied to her apron string like a chicken's! No!
"I don't know, your worship," he said. "I was drunk and don't remember." "An alibi!" whispered Dukovski, smiling, and rubbing his hands. "So-o! And why is there blood under the master's window?" Nicholas jerked his head up and considered. "Hurry up!" said the Captain of Police. "Right away! That blood doesn't amount to anything, your worship! I was cutting a chicken's throat.
"Then w'at is it, guv'nor? I've heerd of the 'Orse an' 'Ound, the Chicken's Friend, the Cat, an' the Bee; but the Firefly leaves me thinkin'. Is it a noospaper?" "Something of the sort." "All right, sir. Jump in. We'll soon be on its track." The hansom scampered off to Fleet-st.
Ham and chicken's very suitable. You don't want a lot of cooking with the ceremony coming into the middle of it. I wonder who Alfred ought to invite, Harold. Just the immediate relations; one doesn't want a great crowd of people and one doesn't want not to show respect." "But he hated our relations most of them." "He's not hating them now," said Mrs. Johnson, "you may be sure of that.
Then there was a flock of robins dipping southward. There was also the railroad. Sharley may have had her dim consciousness of the cosey barn and chicken's chirp, of brown and gold and blue and dazzle and glory; but you don't suppose that was what she had outgeneralled Moppet and stolen the march upon Nate and Methuselah for.
Setting the youngster's face homeward, and patting him benevolently on the back for Chicken's heart was as soft as those of his feathered namesakes the speculator quit the market with a profit of 1,700 per cent. on his invested capital. Two hours later an Iron Mountain freight engine pulled out of the railroad yards, Texas bound, with a string of empties.
"You will see. Drink a glass of wine with me, my good friend; your health." "Same to you, sir." "Is it to your mind?" "Elixir! This is the stuff that sharpens a chap's wit and puts courage in his heart." "I brought it for that. You and I have no chicken's play on hand. Another glass." "Success to your scheme, sir." "Crawley, George Fielding must not come back this year with one thousand pounds."
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