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Updated: June 19, 2025
Reckon I might go turn a little mo' cotton-seed in the troughs for them cows an' put some extry oats out for the mules an' the doctor's mare an' onchain Rover, an' let 'im stretch 'is legs a little. I'd like everything on the place to know he's come, an' to feel the diff'ence. Well, now I'll load up an' I do hope nobody won't notice the redic'lousness of it.
He had hit upon a first page story. A half-hour later every newsboy in the downtown district was shouting himself hoarse, and the words he shouted were these: "All about Johnny Thompson. Johnny Thompson, featherweight champion. Alive! Arrested for conspiracy! Extry!" The theatre crowds were thronging the streets, and the newsies reaped a rich harvest.
Skimming the brief despatch, here a sentence, there a sentence seared itself into his memory. "Missed his train at Centreport conscientious citizen, valuing his vote hired a naphtha launch collision hampered by clothing leaves a sorrowing widow " "Th' extry 'dition is two cents," reminded the urchin. The executive mansion was strewn with the wreckage of the inaugural reception.
It's a great expense to have an extry mouth to feed and a growing girl to clothe in these bad times, but we must put up with it." "I can work, Aunt," said Lilac. "I can do lots of things." "Well, I hope you'll do what you can," replied Mrs Greenways. "Because, as you haven't a penny of your own, you ought to do summat in return for your uncle's charity. That's only fair and right, isn't it?"
He slipped off his shoes and picked his way cautiously down the stairs. As he reached the top of the first flight a newsboy passed, calling the evening papers, and shouted something which Rags could not distinguish. He wished he could get a copy of the paper. It might tell him, he thought, something about himself. The boy was coming nearer, and Rags stopped and leaned forward to listen. "Extry!
I'll just cook a few extry little things another tongue, now, an' a nice piece of corned beef, an' per'aps a 'am. An' do you think you could manage a pie or two, Miss Norah?" "Try her!" said Mr. Linton, laughing. "Let's tell Billy!" and off went Norah at a gallop. She returned a few minutes later, slightly crestfallen. "Billy must be asleep," she said. "I couldn't get an answer.
Judson, who stared at it, astonished. "What's this?" said that gentleman; "you don't want it?" "Guess I'll have it marked," said Jethro, "ef it don't cost extry." "Marked!" gasped Mr. Judson, "marked!" "Ef it don't cost extry," Jethro repeated. "Well, I'll " exclaimed Mr. Judson, and suddenly recalled the fact that he was a church member.
"The new sign 'll read 'Harum & Comp'ny, or 'Harum & Lenox, jest as you elect. You c'n put in what money you got an' I'll put in as much more, which 'll make cap'tal enough in gen'ral, an' any extry money that's needed wa'al, up to a certain point, I guess I c'n manage. Now putty much all the new bus'nis has come in through you, an' practically you got the hull thing in your hands.
Me havin' that extry sized bell made thess out of respects to her tickled her mightily. Come along, Sonny! He heerd the bell, an' he knows what it means. That's right fetch the clock along. Sonny's cheer is toler'ble low, an' he's took a notion to set on the clock mealtimes. I thess lay 'er face down'ards in his cheer, 'n' I don't know ez it hurts her any; 'n' then it saves the dictionary, too.
But he ain't never caught none yet. "On that occasion, howsomever, he was sure he'd got a whole gang of 'em, and he waked up the whole hotel trying to find out what was going on. I charged Parraday ha'f a dollar for burning extry 'lectricity, and he got so mad he ain't stopped at the hotel since. "He'd give one the nevergitovers, that man would!" she concluded.
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