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Updated: June 17, 2025
Just because you over-heard my plans, you had no right to take advantage. You can't do that sort of thing, you know." "Oh, can't I?" sneers Auntie, lookin' him straight in the eye. "But I have, you see." And that's one of the few times I ever saw Old Hickory Ellins squirm at a come-back. He pinks up some, too; but he keeps a grip on his temper.
When the youth in the checked cap gave him the come-back though it was clear enough. "Aw, shut up, you big stiff!" says he. "You're lucky to get cold chicken and bread and jam. Where do you think I'm goin' to get hot coffee for you, anyway? Ain't I runnin' a chance as it is, swipin' this out of the ice-box after the servants leave? It's more'n you deserve, you crook." More grumbles from inside.
The important thing was that they were getting warmer. Then Judy suddenly nudged Tim, and Tim nudged Uncle Felix, and Uncle Felix dug his elbow into Come-Back Stumper, and Stumper somehow or other caught the attention of the Tramp a sort of panting sound, half-whistle and half-gasp. They paused and looked behind them. "He's ready," remarked their Leader, with a laughing chuckle in his beard.
Glover undoubtedly had his bad quarter-of-an-hour that night, but the next morning he regained his usual equipoise, and cast off his chagrin with a characteristic gibe, at his own expense. A sympathetic friend ventured to ask if the fiasco was caused, perhaps, by too much blood and thunder in the piece. "Not blood and thunder, but thud and blunder," was Glover's quick come-back.
You don't think I'm a fool, do you, to steer you into a lay that's got a come-back on myself unless the thing was planted right? Why, damn it, Malay knows I saw the coin put in there. D'ye think I'd give him a chance of suspecting me! It's all fixed you know that. Now, go to it there's a nice little piece of money in there that'll keep us going till we pull that Chicago deal." "All right!"
True come-back will fail him as it failed that man by the bulletin board who asked, "What is England doing, anyhow?" and his neighbor answered, "Her fleet's keeping the Kaiser out of your front yard." What did England do in the war, anyhow? Let us have these disregarded facts also.
It had the face of a man yellowish, patched with red, breathless and very hot. It was Come-back Stumper. He glared at them, furious at being disturbed, yet with an uneasy air, half comical, half ashamed, as of being caught. He took on a truculent, aggressive attitude, as though he knew he would have to explain himself and did not want to do so. He turned and faced them.
They heard him well enough, but they did not understand quite what he meant, and his voice died into the distance oddly, far away already, almost on the other side of the fence. And as he spoke they noticed another change in the world about them. Three of the party noticed it the males, Uncle Felix, Tim, and Come-Back Stumper.
"How's dere goin' ter be any come-back? Mittel keeps it in his safe, don't he? Well, gentlemen's houses has been robbed before an' dis job'll be a good one. De geographfy stunt youse wants gets pinched wid de rest, dat's all. It disappears see? Who's ter know youse gets yer claws on it? It's just lost in de shuffle."
"The she-kid rustles a jawb as biscuit-shooter in a Swede beanery oveh to Crested Butte, but she was so plum ugly thet she scahed away all thu feeders an' thu boss sues her foh his come-back. Then she hikes out with a tinhawn Greaser an' ketches thu small-pawx down to Taos, an' passes out accordin'!
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