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Effie she butters me up with soft words every day of my life, and that Jackson lad has offered me about ten thousand of them vegetable cigarettes, but I'll have to throw him down. He's the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he'd freeze it between here and Spokane. Yes, sir; you could cut his ear off and it wouldn't bleed.
I didn't think I was goin' to be lucky enough to catch you in till I saw you arrive in that flivver. Are you back for more recruits?" The sheriff continued to hold the paper without moving. "When you first started to talk, Rathburn, I thought maybe bravado had brought you here to make a grand-stand play," he said coolly. "But I see you're not as foolhardy as some might think.
Was his little Sid fool enough to beat it all the way over here in a flivver for eight bucks the round trip? She was! Where is he?" "He Who You " "You're one of them good-natured simps, ain't you? So was I, dearie. It don't pay! I always said of Will he could bleed a sour pickle. Where is he?
She beamed at Milt, who was lacing a rawhide patch on a tire, before she remembered that they were not on speaking terms. They both looked extremely sheepish and young. It was Pinky Parrott who was the social lubricant. Pinky was always on speaking terms with everybody. "Ah, here she is! The little lady of the mutinous eyes! Our colonel of the flivver hussars!" But he got no credit.
Pulcifer's motto had always been: "Let the other feller do the worryin'." And, generally speaking, in a deal with Raish that, sooner or later, was what the other fellow did. The fog and dusk thickened, Mr. Pulcifer sang, and the flivver wheezed and rattled and splashed onward.
"I'll lay you five thousand that you make a flivver of anything you try." "I've quit gambling, too." As they shook hands Cady grunted: "My invitation to globe-trot is withdrawn. Fine company you'd be!" As Bob walked up the Avenue he pondered deeply, wondering if he really were so lacking in ability as his friends believed.
But I gave you my word. ... Only, mind this: if the rules prescribe a perpetual course of Sunday dinners, en famille, it's going to break down and turn out a natural-born flivver. There are limits to human endurance, and I'm human, whatever else I am not...." Summer slumbered to its close, a drowsy autumn settled upon our valley, in which its traditional peace seemed but the more profound.
In our navy there are plenty of young officers who will tell you that they never built destroyers which keep the sea better than that same little flivver class. Young Captain Chisholm of the 323 was one. One morning, having convoyed a fleet of merchant ships safely up the channel, the 323 was one of a group of destroyers making the best of their way to their base port.
"I'm positive," said Jane, "but I have a trick of blaming mine on Judy. Wonder will she sleep all day because I, the faithful alarm clock, did not go off at her ear. There's the bell! I'm not very hungry. As an appetiser I think a night such as the last rather a flivver." "Isn't it? I have that widely advertised gone feeling myself. Here's a chance to duck in without being noticed."
He has aspirations far beyond driving some other man's car, and if he keeps on he'll have a little flivver of his own before he knows it when the war ends, and he can strike out, with his energy at the boiling point. "There are a lot of men who have belonged not to the idle rich, but to the idle poor, and the discipline of this life is just the thing for them as it is for me.
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