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But Royce, though his lips twitched, was firm. "I don't know the men any too well either," he said. "They're all your grandfather's hirin'. But they're all live an' they all know the game. I won't swear as to how far you can trust any one of 'em; but you'll have to find that out for yourself as we go on." "Name one of them for me," was Packard's quiet way of accepting his old foreman's ultimatum.
The wipin'-out process consists of raisin' the price from 10 cents to 25 cents, and hirin' a blonde named Maudie to sell tickets instead of Micky, the Bowery Bite. That's what they say I don't know. "But to Coney I goes a-Tuesday. I gets off the 'L' and starts for the glitterin' show. 'Twas a fine sight.
But I have never dast, not in his most placid and serene moments I have never dast, to say the word "Mermaid' to him. Truly there is something that the boldest female pardner dassent do. Mermaids is one of the things I don' dast to bring up. No! no, fur be it from me to say "Mermaid" to Josiah Allen. Josiah and me took a short drive this afternoon, he hirin' a buggy for the occasion.
paw," observed this strange creature, "So many of them be's doin' that now." "Oh!" gasped the girl. "So that's why your paw did the hirin' through Murphy's Agency! Well, I like to work where there's no lady boss," said Delia. "You and me is goin' to get on fine." Janice wondered if that were so.
But I don't care twopence what they say, for I've seen him, and believe him to be a first-rate feller. Anyhow, he's a rich one, and has bin hirin' a few men to help him to work his silver-mine, and as I know somethin' about mining, he has engaged me to superintend the underground work.
"I wonder what the boys of the Lazy J would think if they knowed that a guy was tryin' to make a gunfighter out of their old straw boss. I reckon they'd think that guy was loco or a heap mistaken in his man. But I'm seein' this thing through. I ain't ridin' a hundred miles just to take a look at the man who's hirin' me. It'll be a change. An' when I go back to the Lazy J "
"You're goin' away!" he exclaimed. "You're goin' away! Where?" "I don't know. Back home, I s'pose. Though what I'll do when I get there I don't know. I've sold the house, so I don't exactly know where I'll put up. But I guess I'll find a place." "You've sold your house? The house we used to live in?" "Yes. The man that's been hirin' it has bought it. I'm glad, for I need the money.
She was waiting, to the very last minute, for her "Uncle Cyrus." "Hello, shipmate," he hailed. "Not headed for school yet? Good! I cal'late you needn't go this afternoon. I'm thinkin' of hirin' a team and drivin' to Ostable, and I didn't know but you'd like to go with me. Think you could, without that teacher woman havin' you brought up aft for mutiny?" Bos'n thought it over.
So you'd better wait and make your statement in your own behalf to me whilst I'm settin' on the bench. I'll see that you git an opportunity to do so and I'll listen to it; and I'll give it all the consideration it's deservin' of. "And, on second thought, p'raps it would only be a waste of time and money fur you to go hirin' a lawyer specially to represent you.
Besides, father had begun takin' mud baths and experimentin' with climates. So for eight or ten years she went driftin' around here and there, battlin' with room clerks and head waiters, hirin' and firin' nurses, packin' trunks every month or so, and generally enjoyin' the life of a health hunter, with her punctured romance trailin' further and further behind her.
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