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The great policies of governments, the duties of private citizens, the obligations of home life, law, ethics, morality all these important subjects are handled with a calm wisdom and confidence that I must confess has captured my admiration." "It must be a crackerjack," said Thacker, impressed. "It is a great contribution to the world's wisdom," said the colonel.
So they stood, on the swaying, jolting platform. Blanche LeHaye, of the Sam Levin Crackerjack Belles, looked down, askance, at the hand on her shoulder, as at some strange and interesting object. "Ten years ago," she said, "that would have started me telling the story of my life, with all the tremolo stops on, and the orchestra in tears. Now it only makes me mad."
"You are a slovenly lot down here when it comes to boats most of you are, any way. Christian Young is all right though, Munster has a slap- dash style about him, and they do say old Nielsen was a crackerjack. But with the rest I've seen, there's no dash, no go, no cleverness, no real sailor's pride. It's all humdrum, and podgy, and slow-going, any going so long as you get there heaven knows when.
He shot the green objects up into the air in all directions, and went through the performance without a break. "Isn't Andy a crackerjack?" gloated enthusiastic little Tod Smith. "Oh, say, Andy, you won't disappoint us now, will you?" "What about?" inquired Andy. "The rest of it." "The rest of what?" "Your show. You know you promised " "Oh, that's all off!" declared Andy gloomily.
"John!" cried the elder man, laying the weapon on a nearby table. "Will!" answered "Crackerjack" in the same breath. As if to mark the eternal difference as before, the one was clothed in habiliments of wealth and luxury, the other in the rags and tatters of poverty and shame. "Why, that isn't Santa Claus," instantly burst out the little girl, "that's papa."
Any house would have been easy for "Crackerjack" if he had possessed the open sesame of his kit of burglar's tools, but he had not had a jimmy in his hand since he was caught with one and sent to Sing Sing. He had examined house after house, trusting to luck as he wandered on, and, lo! fortune favoured him. The clock in a nearby church struck the hour of two. The areaway was dark.
"Crackerjack" had but recently returned from a protracted sojourn at an institution arranged by the State in its paternalism for the reception and harbouring of such as he.
Then Joe rose, and spoke musingly, tenderly: "There's a trifle I want to say to you to-night to every one of you. I can't do without you. Now it happens that I'm going to put a press in my new business and I'm looking for a first-class crackerjack of a pressman. Do you happen to know any one in this neighborhood who could take the job?" He sat down. There was profound silence. And then Mrs.
Oh, it's Bill Carmody! Ain't he a crackerjack, though? Say, Eth, why don't you marry Bill? He's just crazy about you everybody says so, and " "Charlie!" The word was jerked out hysterically, and the boy was puzzled at the crimson of her face. "Well, I don't care, it's so! And then I'd be a brother-in-law to Bill Carmody! Why, he can lick everybody down to the gym.
Why, last summer I had it from the clerk of the hotel in that town that she ran around all day with a woman named LeHaye Blanche LeHaye, of an aggregation of bum burlesquers called the Sam Levin Crackerjack Belles. And say, for a whole month there, she had a tough young kid traveling with her that she called her son. Oh, she's queering your line, all right.
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