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He asked Maud yesterday if she liked his tie silly booby! and she said it was useful as a danger-signal, cos you could see it a long way off. Crikey! how red he got; and to-day he put on a very sad-looking gray one." And Master Alan went off into fits of laughter at the recollection of his brother's discomfiture.

So now you know. Look slippy!" Albert capitulated. For the first time in his life he felt humble. He perceived how misguided he had been ever to suppose that he could pit his pigmy wits against this smooth-faced worker of wonders. "Crikey!" he ejaculated. It was all that he could say.

Ellis's job on this paper was to make it pay dividends, and not to censor the morals of the community." "And, by crikey, he was right!" cried Dr. Surtaine. "From the business point of view." "Oh, you theorists! You theorists!" Dr. Surtaine threw out his hands in a gesture of pleasant despair. "You want to run the world like a Sunday-school class." "Instead of like a three-card-monte game."

Bet those grey hairs of yours if you like. I see them! All down one side." "They are all down both sides and on the top as well my good woman. How does your father fail to understand you?" "Well, to begin with, he thinks it necessary to have Miss Williams, to housekeep and chaperon, and to do oddments generally as if I couldn't run the show myself. You haven't seen Miss Williams oh, crikey!

Bassett in a semicircle, and bounded up again off the blanket, like an India-rubber ball. His quick mind recovered courage the moment he touched wool. "Crikey! that's jolly," said he; "give me another toss or two." "Oh no! no!" said a good-natured maid. "Take an' put him to bed right off, poor dear."

'The old folks? asked the captain. 'That's about it, said the other, chewing a grass. 'Well, I think you are about the poorest 'and at a yarn! cried the clerk. 'Crikey, it's like Ministering Children! I can tell you there would be more beer and skittles about my little jaunt. I would go and have a B. and S. for luck.

"And in any case one needn't fire into our fellows," responded Jules, his face still smarting from the blow that Max had dealt him. "But listen, Henri; if I get a chance I'll kill that fellow. Better still, if I get a chance I'll capture the brute, and carry him back to our lines, where he can be tried for offering violence to prisoners. Crikey! How wobbly a fellow feels!

Then suddenly the true truth of what he had forgotten to do came home to Robert, and he said, 'Oh, crikey! and stood still with his mouth open, and let a porter with a Gladstone bag in each hand and a bundle of umbrellas under one arm blunder heavily into him, and never so much as said, 'Where are you shoving to now? or, 'Look out where you're going, can't you? The heavier bag smote him at the knee, and he staggered, but he said nothing.

Very late that night, or rather very early next day, in the smoking-room to which such males as it pleased to do so retired for a last cigar, sundry of the younger members of the vanishing shooting-party, and one or two unexplained nondescripts, came to the knowledge of a fact that made one of them say "Hookey!"; another "Crikey!"; and a third and fourth that they were blowed.

"Mind your head! Crikey! That was near, 'nother inch, and you'd ha' crushed him like an eggshell." "Well, you told me to lower down." "No, I didn't, stupid." "Yes, you did." "No, I didn't. You're half tipsy, or half asleep, or " "There, there, hold your tongue, Jem. I'm not hurt, and Mike thought you said lower away. That's enough." "No, it arn't enough, Mas' Don.

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