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"Batting average about thirteen hundred, I should figger." "Life-size he-man! Where do you suppose " "Saw a lad make just such another break once in Van Zandt County " "Say! Who're you crowdin'?" "Hi, fellers! Bill's giving some more history of the state of Van Zandt!" "Applegate's pretty bad hurt." " in a gopher hole and near broke my fool neck." "Where'd this old geezer come from, anyway?
"Brace up, get steady, you damned old geezer! Is there any body in the house? Do you hear? Is there anybody in the house?" he roared. Madame Thibadeau, who had dragged herself from her bed, was now at the window of the house opposite. Seeing Fleda Druse passing beneath, she called to her. "Ma'mselle, Felix Marchand is in Gautry's house drunk!" she cried.
There was a current superstition about the place to the effect that the bathroom and the water supply might on occasion be heated with a device known in the vernacular as a geezer. The geezer was a sheet-iron contraption in the shape of a pocket inkstand, and it stood on a perch in the corner, like a Russian icon, with a small blue flame flickering beneath it.
I s'pose I will write you on the boat, if they will tie it up somewhere so it will stand level. Your dear boy. Hennery. The Bad Boy Writes the Old Groceryman About Ocean Voyages His Dad Has an Argument Over a Steamer Chair. On Board the Lucinia, Mid-ocean. Dear Old Geezer.
"How did you get the job," Saxon asked, as they cast about, determining their camp-site. "Wait till we get fixed an' I'll tell you all about it. It was a dream, a cinch." Not until the bed was spread, the fire built, and a pot of beans boiling did Billy throw down the last armful of wood and begin. "In the first place, Benson's no old-fashioned geezer.
"That's evidence enough, 'Brick," commented the scout, staring about warily, "that thar wus no permanent camp over thar," waving his hand toward the crest of the ridge. "Them redskins was on the march, an' that geezer had ter follow 'em, er else starve ter death. He 'd a bin back afore this, an' on yer trail with a bunch o' young bucks."
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