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Florence cried incredulously. "Yes, I really do, Florence. I think Herbert Atwater and Henry Rooter have got the nicest eyes of any boy in town." "Well, I never heard anything like this before!" Florence declared. "But don't you think they've got the nicest eyes of any boy in town?" Patty insisted, appealingly. "I think," said Florence, "their eyes are just horrable!" "What?"
Extry!" screamed the newsboys, zig-zagging among the crowds like bats in the dusk. "Extry! All about the horrable acciDENT! Extry!" It struck Sheridan that the papers sent out too many "Extras"; they printed "Extras" for all sorts of petty crimes and casualties. It was a mistake, he decided, critically. Crying "Wolf!" too often wouldn't sell the goods; it was bad business.
Big Waller, in the excitement of his narrative, was about to give a vocal illustration, when Bounce suddenly extinguished him by clapping his hand on his mouth. "Hist! you wild buffalo," he said, "you'll frighten off all the bars within ten miles of us, if you raise your horrable trumpet!" "I do believe, I forgot," said the Yankee with a low chuckle, when his mouth was released.
I mean he always acts horrable about anything pleasant. Of course I know he's a good man, and everything; I just mean the way he behaves is perfeckly disgusting. So what's the use your not givin' me this dog? You won't have him yourself as soon as grandpa comes home to lunch in an hour or so." "Oh, yes, I will!" "Grandpa hasn't already seen him, has he?" "No." "Then what makes you say "
Did she know of the Theif, or was she merely refering to the car, which she might have guest from grease on my clothes, which would get there in spite of being carful, especialy when changing a tire? Well, I have now come to the horrable events of that night, at writing which my pen almost refuses.
Schofield began, "you don't want your papa and me to keep on worrying about " "I don't care whether you worry or not," the heartless boy interrupted. "I don't want to take any horrable ole medicine. What's that grass and weeds in the bottle for?" Mrs. Schofield looked grieved. "There isn't any grass and there aren't any weeds; those are healthful herbs." "I bet they'll make me sick." She sighed.
A newsboy had thrust himself almost between them, yelling, "Extry! Secon' Extry. Extry, all about the horrable acciDENT. Extry!" "Get out!" laughed Sheridan. "Who wants to read about accidents? Get out!" The boy moved away philosophically. "Extry! Extry!" he shrilled. "Three men killed! Extry! Millionaire killed! Two other men killed! Extry! Extry!" "Don't forget, Mr.
Herbert thinks he hass to act perfectly horrable all the time, now his voice is changing!" said Florence, her emotion not abated. "Tried to steal this whole ice-cream freezer off the back porch and sneak it over the fence and eat it! I stuck a pretty long pin in Herbert and two more of 'em, every bit as far as it would go." And in the extremity of her indignation, she added: "The dirty robbers!"
Sam was looking at the bottle with great interest. "What's all that stuff in there, Penrod?" he asked. "What's all that stuff in there looks like grass?" "It IS grass," said Penrod. "How'd it get there?" "I stuck it in there," the candid boy replied. "First they had some horrable ole stuff in there like to killed me.
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