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"This here croquet is a new style of shootin', and with two dollars on the game I ain't goin' to be hurried none." "It ain't a half-decent outfit, either," complained Doc Tomlinson. "Hay wire ain't any good for croquet arches; and as for these here balls and mallets you bought sight-unseen by mail, they're a disgrace to civilization." "Pronto! Pronto!
They are even talking of letting their contract lapse at the end of this term." Tiger Martin jumped to his feet. "Doctor Tanner, even Four-star Surgeons lose patients sometimes. These people should be glad that the doctor they call has sense enough to call for help if he needs it." "But no help was needed," the Black Doctor said angrily. "Any half-decent surgeon would have handled the case.
She's never been half-decent to me; cut dances with me all last winter; kept me hanging round the outskirts of every crowd she was in; stuck me with Laura and her mother every time she had a chance; then has the nerve to try to use me, so's she can make a bigger hit with a new man! You can bet your head I'm through! She'll get paid though! Oh, she'll get paid for it!" "How?" laughed Ray.
Gibney was interrupted by Captain Scraggs pulling at his sleeve. "You was a gunner once, wasn't you, Gib?" said Captain Scraggs in a trembling voice. "You bet I was," replied Mr. Gibney. "My shootin' won the trophy three times in succession when I was on the old Kearsarge. If I had one good gun and a half-decent crew, I'd knock that gunboat silly before she knew what had hit her."
Everybody in the Archipelago had heard of Laughing Anne. She had really a pleasant silvery laugh always at her disposal, so to speak, but it wasn't enough apparently to make her fortune. The poor creature was ready to stick to any half-decent man if he would only let her, but she always got dropped, as it might have been expected.
I've got to get a grip on myself." "You bet you have," said Penny, hauling his fists from his trousers as if with an effort. Then he grinned. "Betty said you would." George's eyes darkened. "And I'll tell you now," Penny went on, "since you've turned out at least half-decent, Betty'll let you off that apology thing. She wasn't the one who was exacting it not she.
"Why, my dear fellow, we're glad to get hold of any kind of half-decent chap that is willing to help in any way. We use him as usher, manager, choir-master, sexton. In short, we put him any place where he will stick." Shock drew a long breath. The situation was becoming complicated to him. "About Loon Lake," continued McIntyre, "I can't tell you much.
'Isn't your name Charley? and again I answered, yes; I could have resorted to concealment, but I would not lie for a piece of bread, and yet for mother's sake I sorely needed the place. "What did Mr. Hazleton say?" "Nothing, only I thought he looked at me a little embarrassed, just as any half-decent man might when he was about to do a mean and cruel thing. But that afternoon I lost my place. Mr.
That was easily accomplished, for the foreign colony in Mojada numbered scarce a dozen; and they gathered daily at a half-decent hotel kept by a Turk, where they managed to patch together the fluttering rags of country and civilization that were left them.
"Just as soon as I really get settled down into a half-decent lodging, something happens." Mr. Peebles had been a fixture at Mother Atterson's for nearly ten years. Only Old Lem Camp had been longer at the place. The latter was the only boarder who had no adverse criticism for the mistress's new move. Indeed this evening Mr.
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