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Why, Daniel's piazza on his new house cost him $175, and his wife's last hospital bill was $250, and just one dentist alone gaffed him sixty-five dollars for straightening his oldest girl's teeth!" "Not sixty-five?" gasped the Young Electrician in acute dismay. "Why, two of my kids have got to have it done! Oh, come now you're joshing!" "I'm not either joshing," cried the Traveling Salesman.
We used to be pretty good friends " He stopped short, his face contrite. Val was looking away, and she was winking very fast. Also, her lips were quivering unmistakably, though she was biting them to keep them steady. Kent stared at her helplessly. "Say! I never thought you'd mind a little joshing," he said gently, when the silence was growing awkward. "I ought to be killed!
"Oh, my hair, eh?" smiled Dick. "Why, you can have as fine a lot of hair if you want to take the trouble." "Don't I want it, though?" retorted Darrin. "What kind of tonic do you use?" "Grease," smiled Prescott. "Nothing but grease?" "Nothing much." "What kind of grease?" "Elbow!" "Now, stop your joshing," ordered Dave promptly.
I was only joshing you, boy! Say, what I wanted ter see you about is this: there's some dispute between the what-d'-you-call-uns? -executors? -of your dad's will and Old Man Perkins, who owns the farm next ter yours, about the boundary lines. Old Man Perkins, he claims " "He has no claim whatever!" interrupted Ralph, vehemently. "That old dispute was almost settled before my father's death.
Slim rising first from dinner on the next day but one opened the door of the mess-house, and stood there idly picking his teeth before he went about his work. After a minute of listening to the boys "joshing" old Patsy about some gooseberry pies he had baked without sugar, he turned his face outward, threw up his head like a startled bull, and began to sniff.
"I've sure put the fear of the Lord into you, haven't I, Buck?" Ward observed maliciously, wiping a blob of hairy lather upon a page torn from an old Sears-Roebuck catalogue. "I was kinda hoping you had more nerve. I wanted to get a whack at you, just to prove I'm not joshing." Buck swallowed again, but he made no reply.
Andy ventured to say, and he was thrilled when his companion, turning toward him just at that moment, went on to say: "Perhaps in less time than that, Andy; with the glasses you might glimpse it even now!" "Are you joshing me, Frank?" demanded the other Bird boy, as he swung eagerly around, so as to fix his glasses upon the far off horizon ahead of them.
The Harvard boys had to stand for an awful joshing on the way they had been outwitted by 'Lo! the poor Indian with untutored mind. "But brain work and quick thinking aren't confined to the redskins. I recall a game played between the Army and Navy. You know there's always a fierce rivalry between those branches of Uncle Sam's service, and this game was being played for all it was worth.
When the committee came down I sent out and they brought me back the bills I was the treasurer as well one man carried the funds, and they brought back $4.90 worth of food down, including two frying pans, and when I was about cooking, a freight train from Everett pulled in and a little boy, who was maybe about ten years old, he says, 'Dad, are you an I. W. W.? I says, 'I am, son. 'Well, he says, 'there are a whole bunch of deputies coming out after you. I laughed at the boy, I thought he was joshing me.
"I believe," said Alfie emphatically, "that you're joshing me, Manning." "Now, whatever gave you that idea?" asked Roger in a hurt tone. "This is a serious situation, isn't it?" asked Alfie, looking at Astro. "It sure is, Alfie," said Astro soberly, "and I'm the first one to say I'm a little scared!" Alfie smiled.
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