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Updated: May 29, 2025
"A joke's a joke, but when you ask a man to explain his presence on his own boat, you're coming it just a little thick, eh? To tell you the truth, I had some sort of an idea of asking you the same question." "What do you mean your own boat?" Draconmeyer demanded. He was, perhaps, the first to realise the situation. Richard thrust his hands into his pockets and sat upon the edge of the table.
"A joke's a joke, but when you said you would come I naturally expected you would keep your word." "Keep my word?" repeated the sergeant-major, almost choking with wrath. "I stayed there in that lonely cottage from twelve to three, as per agreement, waiting for you," said Mr. Farrer. "You were not there," shouted the sergeant-major. "How do you know?" inquired the other.
They come fight you. I hear, I come to find out what's fighting about." Luck gazed at him stupidly for a moment until the full meaning of the statement seeped through the ache into his brain. He heaved a great sigh of relief, looked at the Native Son and laughed. "The joke's on us, I guess," he said. "Go, back and tell that to the boys. I'll be along in a minute."
And then Jimmy Gaynes rose up from behind that rock and laughed at me. "'The joke's on me! said I, and reached down for my gun. "'Better leave that! said Jimmy pretty sharp. I know that tone of voice, so I straightened up again. "'Well, Jimmy, said I, 'she lays if you say so. But where'd you come from: and what for do you turn road agent and hold up your old friends?
"That's what they did," spoke up Nelson, as well as his cramped tongue would permit, being now freed of the gag. "They gagged us first, so's we couldn't sing out; then they filled up the stove an' beat it." What had promised to be a tragedy had proved a fiasco, and Wade smiled a little foolishly. "The joke's on us, I guess, boys," he admitted. "But we've got the ranch back, at any rate.
She walked straight up into the little circle and stood close to French's side, regardless of the levelled guns. "Look here, Long Jim, or whatever your name is," she protested, "you just call your crowd off and stop this. Undo those two deputies. A joke's a joke, but this has gone far enough. If you don't untie them, I will. Take your choice and get a move on."
And say! de joke's on dat croaker, ain't it? I looked t'rough the window and see him playin' tag on dat Dago kid's solar plexus." "You son of a tinker," growled the cattleman, "whyn't you talk up and say the doctor never examined you?" "Ah g'wan!" said McGuire, with a flash of his old asperity, "nobody can't bluff me. You never ast me.
"A joke's a joke," he said to the boys, "but this is going too far." "What's the matter, professor?" asked Dick. "Yes, what's happened?" asked Tom, who saw that the man of science was really angry, and for some reason blamed them for whatever had irritated him. "As if you didn't know," declared the professor.
'Ain't we hit the right spot? Well, that's what you hev hit. You're all right, and the spot is hunky-dory, and it's the durned old boat hez made the mistake, begosh! A cloud busted in this country, and she tore out fer the coast, and the joke's on her! You'd ought to hev heerd her cable snap! Whoosh, if that wire didn't screech!
And say! de joke's on dat croaker, ain't it? I looked t'rough the window and see him playin' tag on dat Dago kid's solar plexus." "You son of a tinker," growled the cattleman, "whyn't you talk up and say the doctor never examined you?" "Ah g'wan!" said McGuire, with a flash of his old asperity, "nobody can't bluff me. You never ast me.
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