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I surely ought to know the name of the man that probably saved my life." "My name is Welborn, Sam Welborn. I live quite a distance back in the hills." "And my name is David Lannarck, and I've got a score of other names besides, to include Shorty, Prince, Runt, Half-Pint, and others. I'm with the Kid Show.
The other testimony submitted to the inquest jury brought out various facts of a substantive character, but calculated rather to complicate than to unravel the mystery. The butler swore that on the very day of the murder he had served his master a half-pint of arsenic at lunch. But he claimed that this was quite a usual happening with his master.
He wore about a half-pint of dirty whiskers, and in his make-up he reminded me of a scare-crow that brother and I once made to put out on the farm in Wisconsin. I have seen a number of Kittymunkses, but he was the worst. I said, 'Say, why don't you wash yourself? and the horrible suggestion made him shudder. 'Is this the man? the sheriff asked.
Pour over a half pint of tomato sauce, and send to the table. Drain, wash, and drain again twenty-five oysters. Throw them into a hot saucepan and shake until the gills curl. Rub together two level tablespoonfuls of flour and two of butter. Drain the oysters, put the liquor into a half-pint cup, add sufficient milk to fill the cup. Add this to the butter and flour.
Other people regarded the affair as a joke, and he sat gazing round-eyed one evening at the Two Schooners at the insensible figures of three men who had each had a modest half-pint at his expense. It was a pretty conceit and well played, but the steward, owing to the frenzied efforts of one of the sleeper whom he had awakened with a quart pot, did not stay to admire it.
She didn't think of getting large cans till Michael in the process of opening the half-pint tins made the belated suggestion, which she greeted with some hauteur. "I'm not the person to mind a little extra work, Michael, when I am sure of my results. Precision that's the secret of the difference between American and French cooking."
"Jealousy; that's wot it is," said the night-watchman, trying to sneer "pure jealousy." He had left his broom for a hurried half-pint at the "Bull's Head" left it leaning in a negligent attitude against the warehouse-wall; now, lashed to the top of the crane at the jetty end, it pointed its soiled bristles towards the evening sky and defied capture.
But they 'appened, Mister 'appened as surely as I am sitting here with an empty pot in front o' me. An' an' " McNab stammered in his excitement "if any bloke says they didn't, be jabers, I'll I'll drink his beer!" But neither the old gentleman nor any member of the company wished to disagree with him, and he rose up from the chair with a mug to order his final half-pint.
His glance was so fierce that Mr. Stokes almost quailed. "I won't tell tales out of school," he said, nodding. "Not if I ask you to?" said Mrs. Henshaw, with a winning smile. "Ask 'im," said Mr. Stokes. "Last night," said the whisperer, hastily, "I went for a quiet walk round Victoria Park all by myself. Then I met Mr. Stokes, and we had one half-pint together at a public-house. That's all." Mrs.
As he was at Norwich, the distance was a hundred and twelve miles, and as he was poor he walked. He spent fivepence-halfpenny on a pint of ale, half-pint of milk, a roll of bread and two apples during the journey, which took him twenty-seven hours. He reached the Society's office early in the morning and waited for the secretary.
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