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Updated: May 24, 2025
You kidded them at first: "Well, believe me, Chuck, if you shoot the way you play ball, you're a gone goose already." "All you got to do, Scotty, is to stick that face of yours up over the top of the trench and the Germans'll die of fright an' save you wastin' bullets." There was a great knitting of socks and sweaters and caps.
It was sheer folly and I told them so, and why, but failed to convince them. They raced. They kidded me for being slow, dared me to race them, and gibingly assured me that they would wait for me on top and command the sun not to rise until I got there. They would have their little joke. They waited for me at Keyhole and we moved slowly along the shelf trail beyond.
Shaughnessy gave a whoop of joyous amazement and the other boys shouted, and kidded "Barrel" and "Rock-crusher," the latter of whom won his nickname from the gentle way he had of hitting his antagonists with his hard knees as he ran into them, and bowling them over ... he was a recruit from the hurdles, who ran "high." Shaughnessy came over to me.
"You have to help me," I said, "because you're a regular scout, I can see that, and you bet I'd like to be just like you if I only could I would you can bet that fellow had lots of adventures and he called me 'Skeezeks' and kind of laughed at me and kidded me along but, anyway, maybe he's all right, hey? I guess it's his money, but anyway, you've got to help me you have.
Rick marveled at how little they really knew about their friend. He certainly excelled at keeping his mouth shut. Probably he was a reserve officer. "I think you look handsome in it," Barby said dreamily. The boys had kidded her before about getting all misty-eyed when Steve showed up. Actually, Steve was a very handsome young man, so Barby's mild crush was understandable.
But finally they make the break and come up and pick out a ring without saying a word and hand over ten cents. "There was one girl no more than sixteen just this morning. She come here all full of pep and kidded about things and said wasn't them platinum wedding rings just too grand for words, and so on.
Having been called a pin-head by a bond room cub he's in no mood to be kidded. So I follows in for a few words with Hartley. You see, I could appreciate the situation even better than Piddie, for I knew more of the facts in the case than he did.
T'ree o' thim, sir, the naygur and two Greeks. I kidded thim into thinkin' I was Misther McKaye; 'tis all over now, an' ye can find out what two Greeks it was by those knives I took for evidence.
The high crown was literally shot to pieces. "I guess I am some wise guy. You fellas kidded me about sportin' an extra high lid. Come on, Chico, they're laughin' at us!" "If they'd 'a' shot the crown off clean down to your ears, you'd never noticed it," grumbled Billy Dime. "Mebby I am a flat-headed chicken, Billy, but I got both wings yet," retorted Long.
"Empty, huh? Then they kidded us on the boat. From what they said it's fair crawlin' with snakes and jaggers and lizards and bloody vampires and spiders as big as yer fist. And the water is full o' man-eatin' fish and the bush full o' man-eatin' Injuns. If that's what ye call empty, Cap, don't take me no place where it's crowded." A slight smile twitched the set lips of the tall "cap."
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