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We drew up at a station then, and had to wait until the train went on again. By that time Yussuf Dakmar had made up his mind. He slipped off his jacket and vest and began to unfasten his collar-button as the train gained speed. Everything went smoothly until he stood up to remove his pants. He had the top of them in both hands when Jeremy seized him suddenly by the elbows and spun him face about.
When her husband ridiculed her, she made up her mind she would make a better collar-button, and when a woman makes up her mind "she will," and does not say anything about it, she does it. It was that New England woman who invented the snap button which you can find anywhere now. It was first a collar-button with a spring cap attached to the outer side.
"Oh," but you say, "didn't he have any capital?" Yes, a penknife, but I don't know that he had paid for that. I spoke thus to an audience in New Britain, Connecticut, and a lady four seats back went home and tried to take off her collar, and the collar-button stuck in the buttonhole. She threw it out and said, "I am going to get up something better than that to put on collars."
I sent the hull shootin'-match around to the house by a small boy with a hand sleigh and a card sayin' 'Peace on Earth' on top of it. "After this, havin' done my duty by my fambly, as I saw it at the time, I wandered into Mr. George Hewlitt's emporium of chance, armed with six iron dollars and a gold collar-button.
How much time he consumed in this search is difficult to reckon; it is almost impossible to believe that there is absolutely no collar-button in a house. And what William's state of mind had become is matter for exorbitant conjecture. Jane, arriving at his locked door upon an errand, was bidden by a thick, unnatural voice to depart. "Mamma says, 'What in mercy's name is the matter?" Jane called.
Did I ever make any claim to being musical?" "You see," hinted Greg Holmes, "the trouble with the Dutcher kid is that he's all ivory, from his collar-button up." Another laugh greeted this assertion, but Hen only glared stupidly. "Ivory is all white, anyway," Hen muttered. "So am I." He swelled out his chest, did one or two fancy little things on skates, and tried to look important.
Shirt flapping about his short legs, he ran into the night, shouting at the top of his voice. "Have you arms?" Mahon enquired of Murphy. "Wish I had about three more o' thim for this collar-button," grumbled the engineer before the mirror. "Have you a gun, I asked?" "Well," said Murphy carefully, "if ye're enquir-ring to enfor-rce the law agin carrying arms, nary a jack-knife even.
Sommers thought Porter betrayed his need of Carlsbad more than ever, and he wondered if the famous gambler had beguiled Colonel Hitchcock into any of his ventures. But Sommers did not trouble himself seriously with the new manifestations of gigantic greed. Unconscious of the fact that from collar-button to shoe-leather he was assisting Mr.
I also bequeath to him any property, great or small, that may be in my possession at the time of my demise, even though it be no more than the collar-button with which he so kindly supplied me this morning, and which I shall always retain as a mark of his devotion, knowing well what it means for a man to deprive himself of a cherished belonging."
"'Good-night, Susanna Merry Christmas, says I. 'On my word of honor, there has been one moment of my life when I was glad to see you. "And I left her standin' there, with the candle in her hand, paralyzed. "And I can conclood, as I suggested in the beginning, that I had not foresaw one item of these occurrences when I risked that collar-button."
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