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"So then you didn't cut your throat in the Hollow Oak, after all?" said I. "Nor likely to either, master," he answered, shaking his head. "Lord love your eyes and limbs, no!" "But," said I, "some day or so ago I met a man " "Ah!" nodded the Tinker, "to be sure you did." "A pedler of brooms, and ribands " "'Gabbing' Dick!" nodded the Tinker. "Who told me very seriously "
"He beat Gabbing Dick, anyway," said Diana suddenly, whereat I lifted drooping head and looked towards her gratefully, only to see her vanishing into the dingy little tent again. "Well, but " said the Tinker as she reappeared, "Gabbing Dick ain't a fighter like Jem Belcher or Gentleman Jack Barty or Jessamy Todd. Dick's a poorish creetur' "
Everything that could be removed had been taken out of the ship. "Is this legal?" asked Roger incredulously. "I'm afraid it is, Roger," said Tom. "But we're going to make sure that everything that's supposed to be in a spaceship is in this one." "When I blast off, I don't intend carrying any passengers," growled Miles behind them. "If you're going to inspect, then inspect and stop gabbing."
Bangs walked across, eyed the dead Hun a moment, and came back, saying: "Will your plane carry us but pshaw! You're out of gasoline, man!" "No we're not. Got a tank half full!" "Too thin, old man! Why, then did you stop here? You didn't know I was going to drop down, and you knew Stanley ought to be in the hospital instead of lying here listening to you and me gabbing this way."
"We will be stiff, I am sure," added Bess, "although our muscles ought to be in good form." "When you have finished," Freda whispered to Belle, "we want to give Denny something." "Of course," Belle replied. "How selfish we are, sitting here 'gabbing, and neither you nor your mother has had supper yet. I'll serve coffee at once." "Don't hurry," Freda said. "We have time enough."
Don't stand there gabbing," yelled Hartley, as he took Albert in his arms and, together with the doctor, lifted him out of the sleigh. "Goodness sakes alive! Ain't it terrible! How is he?" asked an old lady, peering at him as he passed. On the porch stood Mrs. Welsh, supported by Ed Brann. "She's all right, I tell you. He ain't hurt much, either; just stunned a little, that's all."
"Do you know what you are gabbing about?" queried Jack. "I guess I do." "And I guess you don't. Supposing you hold your horses a minute?" "It is a mean thing, any how, to meddle with another fellow's trap." "It is your trap, is it?" "Yes, it is." "Well, who's a meddling?" "You." "I ain't." "You are." "I say I ain't; and who knows best, I should like to know?"
"Oh, I know," she explained while Judith pondered. "Miss Gifford is keeping them home to prevent them gabbing. That's darling of her. She wants to give me the newly discovered spook sleuth a decent chance. Are you coming over with me tonight, Judy?" "Cables couldn't hold me back. Dinksy, you bribed me into staying home last night but I'll never again 'list' to your blarney.
"If I hear yo' gabbing I'll flax the hide o' yo', sure as I keep store." A month, then two, passed in the desolate cabin in the Hollow. Winter clutched and held Pine Cone Settlement in a deadly grip. Old people died and little children were born.
He began to associate at once with students and tipplers, and dissipated less by drinking than by talking. I have a theory that more men are lost to themselves and the age by a love of "gabbing" than by drinking. It is not hard to eschew cognac and claret, but there is no cure for "buzzing."
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