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"No, suh, not 'specially," chuckled the negro, "but I sutny likes that long price!" Soon there was more 50 to 1 in sight, and the flat-footed negro began to shuffle about the betting-ring, bringing to light other wrinkled two-dollar bills. The bookmakers were glad to take in a few dollars on General Duval, if for no other reason than to round out their sheets.
But we managed to make good use of this paper. I got one of the attendants, Ivan, a good-natured, flat-footed Russian, to bring me a pair of scissors, and the boy in the cot next to mine had a stub of pencil, and between us we made a deck of cards out of the white spaces of the paper, and then we played solitaire, time about, on our quilts. I got my first parcel about the end of May, from a Mrs.
Out of the tail of that same eye he discovered that two more flat-footed squaws were headed in his direction. He moved briskly across the floor to the counter, vaulted it, and stood beside Jessie. She was still laughing at him. "You're afraid," she challenged. "You ran away." A little devil of adventurous mirth was blown to flame in him. "I saw another lady, lonely and unkissed.
He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him.
Oh, I've seen them often the adorable yet brawny creatures, leaping six feet into the air and smacking a defenseless tennis ball with such vigor that it started right off in the general direction of Sioux Falls at the rate of upwards of ninety miles an hour, and coming down flat-footed without having jostled so much as a hairpin out of place.
Lady Maud smiled, but shook her head in a reproachful way. 'You promised me that you would never give me your business answer, you know! 'I'm sorry, said Mr. Van Torp, in a tone of contrition. 'Well, you see, I forgot you weren't a man. I won't do it again. So your father thinks I'd better come out flat-footed with a statement to the press. Now, I'll tell you.
Course that opened the debate, and while I begins by statin' flat-footed that Robin could come or go for all I cared, it ends in the usual compromise. I agrees to take the eight-forty-five into town and skirmish for Sonny. He'd be almost sure to show up at Purdy-Pell's to-night, Sadie says, and if I was on hand I might induce him to quit wreckin' the city and be good.
"Then I came out flat-footed and said that I wanted to marry her but there is where I didn't get the encouragement!" "Indeed! I'm afraid I wasn't very considerate," stammered Billy. "No, you weren't," agreed Cyril, moodily. "I didn't know but now " his voice softened a little "with this new happiness of yours and Bertram's that you might find a little encouragement for me."
"Why! who can that be?" thought Janice Day, staring with all her might at the odd-looking creature perched thus on the steps, with a bulging old-fashioned black oilcloth bag beside her. It was a woman in a cheap, homemade calico dress, and with rows upon rows of flounces on the skirt. She sat on the next-to-the-top step of the porch while her shoes were planted flat-footed on the walk.
It seems to come down definitely, in a fearfully flat-footed fashion. The French dramatist finds his task made easy, as his language can suggest simply without definitely stating, more easily than can be done in English." This opinion is surprising.
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