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Updated: June 2, 2025
"That only evens up the sixth hole. Twice in sixty thousand times!" From where the ball lay an easy brassy brought it near enough to the green to negotiate another four. Pickings, trembling like a toy dog in zero weather, reached the green in ten strokes, and took three more puts.
It was a thing of the past all over except the heartache. By way of a preliminary sip of the waters of Lethe, before beginning the full draught, he placed a franc on number seven and lost. Another franc on six suffered the same fate. He threw a five-franc cart-wheel recklessly on evens. It won. It was enough.
"Dear me, no," I exclaimed. "But I think it's sometimes more than a shilling in the pound; I've heard my brother say so; and as for the death duties, it's more than your life's worth to die." "A-ah!" said the nice man. "We haven't got any income-tax on this side, and folks can die in peace, whenever they please. I guess that kind of evens things up, don't it?"
One evening Cake sat watching him, waiting for this mood to pass so that the teaching might begin. "If I was youse," she said at last, "and hated a guy like youse do this Noyes, I'd fetch 'im a insult that'd get under his skin right. I'd make evens wit' 'im, I would, not jes' talk about it." "Oh, you would!" remarked the lodger. He took a long pull at the bottle.
"'Nashville' they call him; Ed's the name he give the hospital: Cory him that I soaked the night you come back to Canaan. He's after Claudine to git his evens with me. He's made a raise somewheres, and plays the spender. And her well, I reckon she's tired waitin' table at the National House; tired o' me, too. I got a hint that they're goin' out to the Beach together this afternoon."
They do not store a quantity of provision in one place like the squirrels, but deposit a tidbit here and there, wedging it tightly into a crevice by hammering it with their stout bills. Of course, the woodpeckers and tomtits secure many of these half-hidden goodies, but Master Nuthatch does not mind that, for he evens up the theft by appropriating their stores when he finds them.
But the teachers can't tell. I get kept in if Tod misses his lessons, and he gets marked if I'm late." "Don't you mind?" "No; 'cause it evens up in the long run. Tod's better-natured than I am, but I'm prettier." "Why, how can you be?" cried Dotty; "you're exactly alike." "Oh, I can see it! I'm much better-looking."
And the cash value to the barter is traded to a cent. A "poke" of flour or of sugar or a cut of tobacco usually evens the transaction. It is many a journey around the store that John Marion makes in a day. The decision to purchase each article is announced slowly and as tho it were the only thing desired.
But he does succeed in getting enough out of them to pay for the unhulled rice he gives them, and he more than evens up on the children. If ever there was a land where legislation on the subject of child labor is needed, it is here. Children are overworked from infancy. They do much of the work of the Islands, and the last drop of energy and vitality is gone before they reach manhood or womanhood.
"Evens will do," said Sir Harry. The old man turned and rang the bell. "Tell Jim to fetch in the red cock," he shouted to the wall-eyed footman who must have been waiting in the corridor, so promptly he appeared. "And Jim won't be long about it either," whispered Honoria. She had come forward quietly, and stood at Taffy's elbow. Sir Harry shook a finger at her and laid it on his lips.
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