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I know, because I've looked at pictures like them in my geography," replied Larry. "They have the paddle wheels on the end because the water is so shallow in places." It was Just after noon that the two chums and Hans were vouchsafed a glimpse of real "dyed-in-the-wool" cowboys. The train had stopped at a crossing, as stations are known in Oklahoma, because of a hot-box on one of the wheels.
John's father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest; Mrs. Unger was known "from hot-box to hot-bed," as the local phrase went, for her political addresses; and young John T. Unger, who had just turned sixteen, had danced all the latest dances from New York before he put on long trousers. And now, for a certain time, he was to be away from home.
It's all right for college presidents to draw up their five-foot shelves of great literature, and for the publishers to advertise sets of their Linoleum Classics, but what the people need is the good, homely, honest stuff something that'll stick to their ribs make them laugh and tremble and feel sick to think of the littleness of this popcorn ball spinning in space without ever even getting a hot-box!
"There's a hot-box, or some such thing, and they say it'll be an hour more before we get away. It might seem good to stretch our legs on the prairie yonder?" Elsie Marley didn't care at all to go.
That ain't paint, that's " A burning pain shot through .007's right rear driver a crippling, stinging pain. "This," said .007, as he flew, "is a hot-box. Now I know what it means. I shall go to pieces, I guess. My first road-run, too!" "Het a bit, ain't she?" the fireman ventured to suggest to the engineer. "She'll hold for all we want of her. We're 'most there.
Made it out a hotbox, did he? Time before that he said he was ditched! Looked me square in the headlight and told me that as cool as as a water-tank in a cold wave. Hot-box! You ask 127 about Comanche's hot-box. Hot-box! Hot fraud! that's what Comanche is." Then.007 put both drivers and his pilot into it, as the saying is, for he asked what sort of thing a hot-box might be?
I'd rather walk behind and pack his suitcase like a porter than ride with the president of the road!" "Is that so?" Sprudell murmured, temporarily abashed. "Great cats!" ejaculated Uncle Bill, with bulging eyes. "My head would git a hot-box if I knowed jest half of that."
"No that is well, only in a way." "Let go of my hands, please." "No." "Very well. What was she like, this other Evelyn?" "Like like you, dearest." "Oh, really!" "Listen, Eve; do you remember once five years ago when a train stopped at the top of the Saddle Pass out in Colorado? There was a hot-box. It was twilight in the valleys, but up there it was still half daylight and half starlight.
'That's the first time you've ever treated me like an ekal, Zeke; and I can tell you I don't like to be pitied no more'n any other man. God knows there wouldn't 'a' been a perter monkey in the bunch, if so it hadn't come I was scart, or thinkin' of somethin' else, when a hot-box arrived.
No sacrifice seemed too great to enable him to get beyond that magic gate. He even bought a catalogue, and, prompted by a natural curiosity for anything that interested him, learned the names of the artists he liked best, and the bits of biography attached to each. He would recite these to the yellow kitten when he got back to his little hot-box of a room.
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