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Updated: June 16, 2025
That was where they copped me. "But that, isn't the end of it. "The fight was only the first part of the adventure. The wonderful thing was what happened afterwards. In prison. "I didn't think I'd really like prison. That was another thing I funked. I'd heard such awful things about it, about the dirt, you know. And there wasn't any dirt in my cell, anyhow.
'There's a deal of "if" in this world, I said; 'and "if" we're "copped" on account of that last job, I'd like to think she and mother had some one to look after them, good weather and bad. 'We might have done that, and not killed ourselves with work either, said Jim, rather sulkily for him; and he lit his pipe and walked off into the bush without saying another word.
"See here, Ralph," bantered Pete, "I've copped Brick-top for myself. You keep off the grass. See!" "All right," Ralph answered. "Katherine for yours, Petruchio. The golden blonde for mine!" He smiled for the first time in days. In fact, at sight of the flying-girls he had begun to beam with fatuous good nature.
Generally very much of Badgwick Hall. Came down last summer on Prize Day. One would have thought from the side on him that he was all sorts of dooks. Anyhow, Morton-Smith took me rabbiting there. I didn't know it was against the rules or anything. Had a grand time. A few days afterwards, Milord Sir Venner copped him on the hop and he got sacked. There was an awful row.
There was a reply on the way now, as Chris knew perfectly well. The whole thing had been carefully arranged and planned to the moment by Steel and the others. "I dare say they'll let you down easy," Merritt said, disconsolately; "but it'll be hot for me. I've copped it too many times before, you see." "Yes, I see," Chris said, thoughtfully. "Mr.
I was with him, and I copped that near-diamond pin of his, and left it there so there wouldn't be any guessing as to who pulled off the job, and then we beat it back to his place to divide and I beaned him. I wasn't looking into any gun then, and handing over fifty thousand and besides, with the Magpie out of the way, I had some alibi." Virat laughed shortly. "That's where you come in.
The nearer my throlly came to the rest-camp, the woilder was the shine, an' the louder was the voice of Peg Barney. "Tis good I am here, thinks I to mysilf, 'for Peg alone is employmint for two or three. He bein', I well knew, as copped as a dhrover. "Faith, that rest-camp was a sight!
But that wos old Doolally all over . . . yer might s'y 'e 'adn't no sense o' 'umor, that man. Down country we moves next d'y, for Peshawur, where th' reg'ment lay. We'd copped a thunderin' lot o' prisoners th' Mullah an' all." "Wha' d'ye ca' a Mullah?" queried McSporran, with grave interest. Hardy, carbine-barrel between knees struggled with a "pull-through."
Did not M. Mascarin, on my recommendation, put you in the way of earning your livelihood? and did you not promise to give up begging?" "Beg pardon, guv'nor, I meant to be on the square, but I didn't like to waste time while I was a-waiting. I don't like a-being idle and I have copped seven browns." "Toto Chupin," said the old man, with great severity, "you will certainly come to a bad end.
Soon the mother, who was watching hard by to see if it fell into kind hands, stole to her baby to comfort it, "and just as she were a kissing on it and blubbering, the perlice copped her." "The slut!" said disgusted Shovel, "what did she hang about for?" and in answer to a trembling question from Tommy he replied, decisively, "Six months hard."
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