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"That's right, Tom, excepting that this is strictly true, while the half-dime novels used to be as far from the truth as a howling dog is from the moon. But seriously, I don't like this," went on the elder Rover earnestly. "Neither do I like it." "Baxter at liberty may mean trouble for father and for us." "I begin to see now what Dan Baxter meant," ejaculated Tom suddenly.
'Here you are! he cried. 'Extray! Steamer just in! Latest news from Europe! All 'bout the new alliance! Consols firm, cotton riz! Extray, Sir? "I bought one, and the boy ran off as I paid him and snatched the paper from his hand. "'You gave that rascal a gold dollar for a half-dime, said my friend. "'Did I? "A gold dollar!
"But as for men, if there are any in these woods, which I very much doubt, what reason would they have for harming Frank?" "It might be in connection with that mysterious secret he seems bothered about." "Oh, you're worse than a half-dime novel," cried Ned with a laugh. "Come on, and stop that dismal croaking." Still following the telephone line, the boys went on.
He chose Coney Island deliberately, because of all the places under the sun, Coney Island is pre-eminently the home and haunt of the North American dime. At Coney, a dime will buy almost anything except what a half-dime will buy. On Surf Avenue, then, which is Coney's Greatest Common Divisor, he strolled back and forth, looking for one of an aspect suitable for this experiment.
I am obliged to keep the purse in my hand all the time, there being such frequent use for it. Kate says, "Give the man a half-dime, Charlie, if you can find one. A three-cent piece looks mean, you know; and a fip mounts up so, it is rather extravagant. That is the twelfth fip that man has had this week, and for only holding up a bucket a half-minute at a time; for Soldier only takes one swallow."
From the back of his head descended a line of glittering brass plates, tapering from the size of a doubloon to that of a half-dime, a cumbrous ornament, in high vogue among the Dakotas, and for which they pay the traders a most extravagant price; his chest and arms were naked, the buffalo robe, worn over them when at rest, had fallen about his waist, and was confined there by a belt.
He looked at the little heaps on the table. He believed he could make Foxy take that for his whole debt, though he was sure he owed him more. Perhaps he had better make certain. He transferred two more dimes and a half-dime from the drawer to the table. It was an insignificant little heap. That would certainly clear off his whole indebtedness and make him a free man.
Bronson is the most intelligent detective I've seen yet," said Sam, after the man had departed. "He handles the case as if it was a strict business proposition." "That's what I like to see," declared Tom. "The other kind of detective is good enough for a dime or a half-dime story book, but he never makes any success of it in real life."
"Well, your honor, next day I spent another penny out of my half-dime and looked in vain for work all day and slept at night in a broken-down omnibus that had happened to be left on the stand. And so, not to tire your patience, a whole week passed away.
I lived on my half-dime, spending a penny a day for a muffin, until the last penny was gone, and sleeping at night wherever I could sometimes under the front stoop of a house, sometimes in an old broken carriage and sometimes behind a pile of boxes on the sidewalk." "That was a dreadful exposure for a young girl," said the Recorder.
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