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Todd's countenance rearranged itself at once. "She's a jim-dandy," said Todd. With this verdict rendered, he seated himself on a chair which had a nail-keg for legs and gave his attention to the principal speaker as he resumed his account of a roping-match. The story was rather long, showing how it was that the best man did n't win. In the ensuing silence Todd found his opportunity to speak.
"Say, this is a pearl, all right, and a jim-dandy one, too," declared Steve, after he had had his turn at handling the discovery, "I ought to know, because my mother's got a string of the same left to her by an old aunt over in England." "Owen, what d'ye suppose it's worth!" demanded Max, turning on his cousin. "Well, now, you've got me there, fellows," declared the bookworm.
What a pity he has that crooked streak in his make-up. Only for that Nick would be a jim-dandy hand at any old athletic sport. I wonder if it will last, or is he due to break loose, to-night perhaps, just because he's held himself in so long." These and many similar remarks passed between the astonished boys of Scranton High, but they did not seem able to understand it at all.
"Do you know, when we talked together in the woods soon after you ran the Rapids you remember the day if you had said that to me then, I'd have cocked my head and thought I was a jim-dandy, as they say. A Master Man was what I wanted to be.
"You must think I've got a girl or important business in the States. No, I'll tell you. The only stamp I've got is in a glass frame, hung up on the wall picture of George Washington, you know. Haven't you never seen it? W'y, it's right there in the parler jest above the pianney and a jim-dandy piece of steel engraving she is, too."
It's bound to be a jim-dandy idea!" declared a loud voice that seemed to spring from the ceiling; but no one was deceived, for they knew only too well how Bobolink could throw his voice pretty much where he pleased. "Silence!"
The youth turned, with sudden, livid rage, toward the battlefield. He shook his fist. He seemed about to deliver a philippic. "Hell " The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer. The tattered man stood musing. "Well, he was a reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he," said he finally in a little awestruck voice. "A reg'lar jim-dandy." He thoughtfully poked one of the docile hands with his foot.
Say, goin' into that bar is like goin' into church and havin' a jim-dandy time when you get there which is something the churches haven't got round to offerin' yet to my way of thinkin'. Now.
He never blinked he's a jim-dandy at keeping cool; and when a hundred mounted heathens made a rush down on him the other day, spears sticking out like quills on a porcupine 2.5 on the shell-road the chargers were going did he stir? Say, he watched 'em as if they were playing for his benefit. And sure enough, he was right.
"Now it was only Wednesday that a duck in this town knocked me out at the primaries played the identical West Side car-barn game on me! Yes, sir, fetched over 500 street-sweepers to my primaries machine candidate and all that oh! he's a jim-dandy!" "I'm sorry for you, Corkey," the wretched husband says, and thus escapes for a moment from his own terror. "Yes, it was bad medicine.
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