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A lot of gambling toughs, remittance doughheads " "That doesn't spoil a ripping good story! I'm going to wire a column to Chicago." "No, you're not," contradicted Brydges. "That kind of thing hurts the State more than ten thousand dollars will advertise it. You go over your advertising columns my boy " "All right! It's up to you?" Bat whistled and swung the galley proofs between his knees.
At once a wordy war ensued between the Baxters and the owner of the schooner. What it was about Dick and Peterson could not make out, although they realized that it concerned Tom and Sam. "Your men are a set of doughheads," cried Arnold Baxter. "They are to be trusted with nothing." "Never mind, we'll come out ahead anyway," retorted Captain Langless.
When he saw that no one exclaimed or turned pale, and that even the minister kept on the even tenor of his discourse, he inwardly accused them all of being "doughheads," and wondered he had never before discovered how little they knew.
Their long tramp had been all in vain. "We're a lot of doughheads," grumbled Shep. "Come all the way for those deer and then -Oh, say, let's go back home!" "I wasn't thinking the deer would come this way," said Snap. "But this proves the truth of Jed Sanborn's words. He told me when I went hunting I must be ready for a shot all the time." There was an awkward silence.
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