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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Carriage for you, miss," says I, grabbin' the rain tent and hoistin' it. "Right this way, miss." Say, she's a dead game sport, Mildred is. Never stopped to ask any fool questions; but prances right out to the car, just as though she'd expected it to be there. "Take the lady home, and be back after Mr. Robert in half an hour, Louie," says I, jerkin' open the door and handin' her in.
The easiest thing in the world is handin' out dollars on a right enterprise. I don't know nothin' better except it is takin' 'em in on the same sort o' play." Jeffrey Masters smiled more broadly into his friend's good-humored face. "Five years back, handing out twenty thousand dollars would have given us a nightmare, even on a right proposition," he said. "It isn't that way now.
"De way I looks at it, dey ain't no use handin' out sense to a nigger ef he ain't got no place to put it. 'Sides, dese things offen-times turns out fur de best; orphants leaves de fewest mourners. Good-by, Red Hoss, an' kindly give my reguards to any frien's of mine dat you meets up wid on 'yother side of Jordan."
Jim, and their recent pride in his triumph over Peter Cheever was turned to ashes. He had married into the movies! They supposed that he must have been drinkin' very 'ard. Jim's valet said: "This is as good as handin' me my notice." But, then, Dallam was a ratty soul and was for deserting a sinking ship. Wotton and the others felt that their loyalty was only now to be put to the test.
As a rule this swift release don't mean much to the Harolds and Perceys except a welcome vacation while the old man pries open another side entrance in the house of Opportunity, Ltd., which fact Piddie is wise to. But in this ease it's a different proposition. "Did you mean it, Tyler, handin' yourself the fresh air that way!" I asks him.
'That wad's got a hunderd an' twenty-five into it, an' if you'd sooner have your hoss an' halter than the wad, I says, 'why, I'll bid ye good-day. "'You're offerin' one-twenty-five fer the hoss an' halter? he says. "'That's what I'm doin', I says. "'You've made a trade, he says, puttin' out his hand fer the money an' handin' the halter over to me."
My old mother used to read outa the Bible that the earth was the Lord's and the fullness thereof; and I ain't never heard of him handin' over two-thirds of it to any king uh Spain.
Josiah seemed to enjoy hisen the best that ever wuz, and to my horrow he took both on 'ern in his right hand and begun to play Yankee Doodle on 'em. I stepped on his foot hard under the table, and he broke off with a low groan, but I spoze they would lay it to a foreigner's strange ways. After the sweetmeats wuz partook of we had dried melon seeds, the host handin' 'em round by the handful.
"We have been in the habit of accepting his judgment in such matters," says Mr. Robert. "Maybe," says I; "but here's once when he's handin' you a stall. And you're missin' out on something good too." Mr. Robert smiles skeptical. "Really?" says he. "Perhaps you would like to present a minority report?" "Nothin' less," says I. "Oh, it may listen like a joke, but that's just what I got in mind."
She got huffy and went off and married the waiter. "We can't rise all at once from our station in life, can we? Like as not, when we get into our new house and put on style ourselves with our drags and our dogs, I'll be sortin' out letters in my dreams and handin' them through a dream window to the people. This girl is a born dish-washer. She clung to her station.
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