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As I'd kind of guessed by the way he talked, he wa'n't just an ordinary fact'ry hand. He'd been through some high class scientific school up in Massachusetts, where he'd lived before his father lost his grip. Seems the old man was a crackerjack boss machinist; but he got to monkeyin' with fool inventions, drifted from place to place, got to be a lunger, and finally passed in.
If I ever see the end of this trip, if you call it a trip; I call it merry hades, believe me, I'll sell something hereafter that I can sell on land. I'm a crackerjack of a salesman, if I do say it myself. Once I got started talking I could get a man down below to buy a hot toddy and a set of flannels and I wish I'd gone down there and done it before I ever saw this boat."
"Say, wait a minute," said Herb. "I heard a swell joke to-day, and I know you'll enjoy it. There was an Irishman and a Jew " but at this formidable opening Joe rushed out, slamming the door behind him. "Well, it's his loss," thought Herb. "But it is a crackerjack story, just the same. I'll have to go and find Bob and tell it to him." He found Bob hard at work at his bench downstairs.
"The stuff is there for a crackerjack team. We're a bit short on beef, and I'd like to have an average of five pounds more in the line. But I've got the finest back field in the country, bar none. Wilson at full is simply chain lightning, and the whole country will be talking of him by November.
When the doctor came, he ordered Asa straight to bed, and Timmins carried him off with the haughty Barton stalking in the rear, a glass of egg and milk in one hand and hot chocolate in the other. The Leffingwell cook had prepared a regular crackerjack no, a Leffingwell dinner; and Mr. Leffingwell begged the boys to say little about their adventures until they had had something to eat.
"I am not aiming to be a crackerjack like you," grinned Dick. "If I can take down and send any messages at all I shall feel pretty cocky." "You think that now," returned Bob, ignoring the flattery contained in the observation. "But by and by you will find yourself discontented and as crazy to make time as you are in an automobile. There is a fascination about it."
He's been collecting them a long time and they're splendidly seasoned and he's just waiting for a chance to make them into something." "A light begins to break. We'll have him make our present. Are you sure he'll make it well enough? It's got to be a crackerjack to be suitable for Miss Gertrude." "This is what I thought. The doctor and Miss Gertrude both like open bookcases.
"Crackerjack" was no exception to the general rule about loving and being beloved set forth above. He loved the little lady whose tattered stocking swung in the breeze from the cracked window. Also he loved the wretched woman who with himself shared the honours of parentage to the poor but hopeful mite who was also dreaming of Christmas and the morning. And his love inspired him to action.
"We thought if you would detail Dennis and Harrison they are crackerjack swimmers they could soon see what is under there." "Tell the men to go at once," said the Colonel. "I will follow." The Colonel called his car, and with a nod indicated to the boys that they were to accompany him.
"You see the 'Pollard' taking the wind out of our teeth, don't you?" "Yes," Hal admitted, looking more puzzled. "Do you think our engines are doing the topnotch of their best?" asked Benson. "Yes; for Williamson is a crackerjack machinist. He knows our engines as well as any man alive could do." "Do you think it would do any good for you to go below, Hal?"
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