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You'll be savin' fifty cents, and the ride won't cost you nothin'." "Well" the old man considered for a moment "I'll do it, if it's only to spite them fellers that's allus hangin' 'round the docks. Reg'lar robbers, they be. Quarter apiece, an' chicken-feed gone up the way't is. Git in."
Nobody around here has money enough to buy fertilizer; and land is so poor the corn crop failed and there wasn't enough grass to support the rabbits. All the people have had to eat in this section for over a year is hog and hominy, and " "Pick," interrupts Caligula, mussing up his red hair, "what are you going to do with that chicken-feed?"
He knew it, and felt the awe of capture rise upon him. 'You've eaten so much supper you can't speak, said Monkey, whose hand was in his coat-pocket for loose chicken-feed, as she called centimes. 'The Little Countess will regler ton affaire all right. Just wait till she gets at you. 'You love her? he asked gently, feeling little disposed to play.
Why, Dad, that's more than you make in a month from your job as Mayor." "Well, that isn't a bad retainer. It's an opening wedge. However, it would be mere chicken-feed in San Francisco." "Read this," Henry urged, and thrust a yellow telegraph-form under the Mayor's nose. The latter adjusted his glasses and read: Imperative building operations commence immediately.
A decree iv th' coort has got to be pretty vinrable befure I do more thin greet it with a pleasant smile. "Me idee was whin I read about Jawn D's fine that he'd settle at wanst, payin' twinty-eight millyon dollars in millyon dollar bills an' th' other millyon in chicken-feed like ten thousand dollar bills just to annoy th' clerk. But I ought to've known betther.
It is difficult to be romantic when you are laden with chicken-feed in an unwieldy iron pot, but he had resolved that this portion of the proceedings should be brief. The birds should dine that evening on the quick-lunch principle. Then to the more fitting surroundings of the rose-garden! There was plenty of time before the hour of the sounding of the dressing-gong. Perhaps, even a row on the lake
The tramp finished a workmanlike search of the banker's pockets. He looked at the result as it lay in his grimy palm a moist little wad of bills and some chicken-feed change and spat disgustedly with a nasty oath. "Well, Trimm," he said, "fur a Wall Street guy seems to me you travel purty light. About how much did you think you'd get done fur all this pile of wealth?"
Moreover, it seemed to him that unlimited charge accounts betokened a greater generosity than an allowance, and he felt an aggrieved irritation at Eunice's seeming ingratitude. The matter of her wanting "chicken-feed" now and then seemed to him too petty to be worthy of serious consideration.
That's fair, ain't it?" "Oh, yes, quite, quite. It's very reasonable. Very generous of you. I'm extremely grateful, really." This prompt and enthusiastic acceptance of his offer was a bit disconcerting. Raish was rather sorry that he had not said five. However, to do him justice, the transaction was more or less what he would have called "chicken-feed stuff." Mr.
It was a pretty sort of a place, out in the country, with the houses scattered a long ways apart, like stingy chicken-feed. "'Let's walk down this road, says he, 'till we come to a good house for a castle, an' then we can ask 'em to take us to board, an' if they wont do it we'll go to the next, an' so on. "'All right, says I, glad enough to see how pat he entered into the thing.
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