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Updated: May 27, 2025
Those chumps in the village will find out some day that the girl they despised is worth more than the whole lot of them put together." Julia Cloud leaned forward, and touched lightly and affectionately the hair that waved back from the boy's forehead, and spoke tenderly. "Dear boy, I'll not forget your leaving your friends and coming back to me and to the Sabbath and church and all that.
Two evenings after, Fulton Bemis, the surly older man of the Bunch, took Babbitt aside and grunted, "Look here, it's none of my business, and God knows I always lap up my share of the hootch, but don't you think you better watch yourself? You're one of these enthusiastic chumps that always overdo things.
We could hear the swish of the river at no great distance, and soon, stumbling over bushes and bursting through matted chumps of grass, dripping with wet, and utterly tired and dejected, we reached the bank of the stream. Here we had no difficulty in following the path.
And there were men, no doubt, who would be chumps enough to do it, he thought, as he prepared to shift back to a position of greater safety. At this moment, the fat man in the tweed cap, incensed at having been jostled out of the front row, made his charge. He had but been crouching, the better to spring. Now he sprang. His full weight took Sam squarely in the spine.
We're the white corpuscles, phagocytes, the scientists call us, and our work is to police the blood-vessels, and kill off invaders that make trouble. Those red-and-gray chumps can't take care of themselves, and we must protect 'em. Understand? But this invasion was too much for us, and we had to have help from outside. You must have come in with the first crowd think I saw you in at the bite.
Around them dozens of red helmets are bobbing, while the quivering air is cut and slashed and mangled with a very hurricane of orders: "Bring up that hose " "Whoa, keep that horse still " "Bring her round this way " "Bring her round this way " "Hey, you chumps, the fire's this side " "Back up that wagon " "Come ahead with the wagon " "Get out of here till we get a ladder up " "Axes here " "Turn on that water " "Turn on that water " "Turn on that water!! " "Jones, go down and tell that wooden Indian to turn on that water."
I had no time to hatch up a lie about him, and I was not going to drag in Paulette "that whoever was there, never even fired at you?" "How do I know who he fired at? I couldn't see inside of his head! I know he hit those chumps who could have got him if they had obeyed orders let alone that if they'd stayed out I'd have got him clean myself when he came in.
I am not interested in the chemicals and the microbes: I leave them to the chumps and noodles, to the blockheads and the muckrakers who are incapable of their own glorious destiny, and unconscious of their own divinity. They tell me there are leucocytes in my blood, and sodium and carbon in my flesh.
There are moments when the stoutest- hearted, even under the influence of old Bourbon, realize that to fight on is merely to fight in vain. He condensed his emotions into four words. "Of all the chumps!" he remarked, and, pouring himself out a further instalment of the raw spirit, he sat down, a beaten man. Mrs. Porter continued to harry him. "Exactly," she said.
He hadn't doubted that Duke and Jerry would hold the story, but it was always hard to ask a favor without being able to give the reason. "There's a new barber in Vince Lardner's shop." "Think we're chumps who don't keep up with the news?" Jerry asked, his expression disdainful. "Of course there's a new barber. What of it?" "We need some information about him.
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