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Babbitt said he must "stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision." As they passed down the hall Gunch demanded amiably, "George, old scout, you were soreheaded about something, here a while back. I don't know why, and it's none of my business. But you seem to be feeling all hunky-dory again, and why don't you come join us in the Good Citizens' League, old man?
My word for it, he'll empty the bottle to-night on his bruises." "Bully! bully! and again bully! I would have rushed to assist you only you made me promise to keep my hands off; and you're my superior officer, you see. Besides, I reckoned that with such a hunky-dory bat you'd be able to give just pie, which you did, Paul." "But the half hasn't been told yet," went on the narrator.
From time to time he felt of their pulses, and nodded his head as if satisfied. "Is the beef tea ready?" asked the old man, after a half hour had passed. "It am, Perfessor." "Then turn down the flame a bit so it will keep the stuff warm, and come back into the work shop with me. I want to get that last bolt in the engine." "Are dem young gen'men all hunky-dory?"
"Heaven aint sittin' in on this hand, 'bo," grinned the C.L.S. detective cheerfully. "It's devils I'm trailin'. Hell's broke loose an' spilled 'em all over the map." "What do you mean? What's happened? Is my aunt ?" "Oh, y'needn't worry' bout y'r auntie none. She's all hunky-dory. It's those booze birds we're goin' after, you'n'me, see. Chief's orders, kid.
I slobbered right over, only you didn't see me, because I got behind. I'm right glad we did it; and wasn't that a hunky-dory find, though? Every time I set eyes on that hole I'll just have to think of the great luck we had." The old life was taken up again. Borne along on the rapid current of the powerful river, they made mile after mile as the day wore on.
The Ranchero did not know one letter from another, and he was obliged to rely entirely upon Frank, who read: "We're all hunky-dory thus far. Pierre don't seem to be so bad a fellow, after all; in fact, he's a brick. He treats us like gentlemen; but, of course, we'd rather be at home, so please send on the money for Archie and me, and see that Mr. Harris and Mr.
"He sutny some warm," said Shanghai critically. "He steamin' like a kettle!" "Whut if he is?" asked Mose. "We kin fix that all hunky-dory, an' Johnson, he won't neveh know." "How can we fix it?" "Got to let that sweat dry first," warned Shanghai. "And then wipe it off," said Mose. "It comes off easy when it's dry," supplemented Shanghai as he started down the road with the other horse.
Yas, SUH! Ev'thing all hunky-dory jes' soon as Marse Kenneth done had his breakfuss. YAS, suh! Yas, SUH!" They ate breakfast by candle-light, Striker and Eliza and Kenneth. There was no sign of the beautiful and exasperating girl. Phineas was strangely glum and preoccupied, his wife too busy with her flap-jacks to take even the slightest interest in the desultory conversation.
"That's what I call a hunky-dory lot of wood," he finally declared, when Thad had announced the they must surely have enough to see them through the night, "but better bring in a little more, boys, because you don't know how fast the fire eats it up." As for himself, Giraffe was now ready to get his cheery blaze started.
"I got a cache of gasoline here ten gallons," he explained, "and it's just as well to know it's here for the back trip." Without leaving the boat, fishing arm-deep into the brush, he announced, "All hunky-dory." He proceeded to oil the engine. "Huh!" he soliloquized for their benefit. "I was just readin' a magazine yarn last night. 'Whose Business Is to Die, was its title.
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