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Updated: June 12, 2025
Westward Bound It is a long way from Kingsley Michigan to Denver Colorado. But we covered the ground in three weeks. We took slideing door palace cars all the way, and slept nights covered with an evening news, begged handouts at back doors; and ate our meals with the widow green. I was coming eleven Clark was just past seven, two old and experienced duffers to go west for freedom.
"Albert, there are plenty of dunderheads and duffers like me in the country who are good for nothing better than cannonfodder. Let them go and be killed.
He's just chock full of tunes. If he had a chance he might make beautiful music some day, like them big duffers what wrote the operas, you know. I'd give him music lessons if I could. I'd have Battles taught to be a regular soldier or sailor. He's forever in a row, and he'd ought to do the right kind of fighting, hadn't he?" "Very sensibly put, Tows; go on," urged the reporter.
In consequence the hotel has ceased to be, what it undoubtedly was twenty years ago, the focus of our summer life. Only a few charred rafters remain of the Ocean House. A few talkative old duffers like myself alone survive the day it represents. Changing social conditions have gradually placed both on the retired list. A new and palatial Newport has replaced the simpler city.
"Those precious surveyors and engineers that Walsh brings down can give an account of them! As soon as you come of age, you'll have to double your staff of keepers, I can tell you." "Guardians of ferae naturae," said Gerald. "I thought your father did all that was required in that line," said Clement. "Not since duffers and land-lubbers have been marauding over Penbeacon- aye, and elsewhere.
This, as you will observe, is 'Paradise Regained, and I should be very sorry for you if you begin to put on critical airs and try to get some allegory out of it Allegorical pictures are only painted by duffers and bunglers; my picture is not to signify but to be.
Oh, gladly would she have died a thousand deaths to have spared him that moment! "My little Greatheart, did you think that I did not know how brave you are? You are the truest soldier of us all, and I, who am not much given to worship, am on my knees before that shy gallantry of yours, which makes what courage we poor duffers have seem a vain and boastful thing.
I've got the papes to send a lot of you duffers to the pen if you don't come to time." Corkey therefore sails for Duluth. It increases his standing with the sailors to make these trips late in the year. Lockwin is to go to Washington. It is evident, say his friends, that he is greatly exhausted with the efforts of the campaign. Dr.
'I believe a hippopotamus is going to happen to us, said Jane 'a very, very big one. They had all turned to face the danger. 'Don't be silly little duffers, said the Psammead in its friendly, informal way; 'it's not a river-horse. It's a human. It was. It was a girl of about Anthea's age.
"I say, if the Chinks up where the Boxers are fighting are big and strong as them duffers, here's one that don't want no shore-leave!" commented someone, as we stood ranged by the side. "I always thought Chinamen was runts." "Oh, it's only city Chinks mostly from Canton, that come to civilized countries to run laundries ... but these are the real Chinamen."
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