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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Aw g'wan! Don't be a quitter." "Who's a quitter?" "Youse a quitter. Get on top de roof. He can't hoit youse." "De guy's gotten a big stick." John nodded appreciatively. "I and Theodore," he murmured. A somewhat baffled silence on the part of the attacking force was followed by further conversation. "Gee! Some guy's got to go up." Murmur of assent from the audience.
"Do you want to complain, woman?" asked the magistrate. "Complain, why yer honor, dis cop is lyin' like a house afire. Dis is me gent' friend, an' I got me face hoit by dis cop hittin' me when he butted into our conversation. Dis cop assaulted us both, yer honor." "That'll do. Shut up. You know what this is, don't you, Burke? The same old story.
He says he's goin' to remember th' place and come back when he's old. A charmin' retreat fer supernumerary superannuates, he calls it. Them's his woids. I'm gittin' sort o' nervous havin' 'im round. Zimmerman he's the clothes-presser tried to talk Goiman to 'im this mornin' an' th' guy pretended like his feelin's wuz hoit, an' he never knowed th' Hun's language, he says.
In the room below there were whisperings and mutterings, growing gradually louder till something resembling coherent conversation came to Psmith's ears, as he knelt by the trap making meditative billiard-shots with the stick at a small pebble. "Aw g'wan! Don't be a quitter!" "Who's a quitter?" "Youse is a quitter. Get on top de roof. He can't hoit youse." "De guy's gotten a big stick."
"'Well, says Buck sort o' sheepy, 'I was some woiked up meself, an' time he come along I give him the spook's tackle without thinkin'; I was too skeered ter think. Hush, Ranch. Hush, old boy. It's jus' me'n Bill. Nobody shan't hoit yer.
The first speaker, unnecessarily, perhaps for the motion had been carried almost unanimously but possibly with the idea of convincing the one member of the party in whose bosom doubts might conceivably be harboured, went on to adduce reasons. "Sam bein' a coon," he argued, "ain't goin' to git hoit by no stick. Youse can't hoit a coon by soakin' him on de coco, can you, Sam?"
"Sam bein' a coon," he argued, "ain't goin' to git hoit by no stick. Youse can't hoit a coon by soakin' him on de coco, can you, Sam?" John waited with some interest for the reply, but it did not come. Possibly Sam did not wish to generalize on insufficient experience. "We can but try," said John softly, turning the stick round in his fingers. A report like a cannon sounded in the passage below.
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