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Updated: May 11, 2025
He couldn't afford it. Tried to show me how to play poker last night. I've his check for two thousand. He insisted upon teaching me the fine points of the game." "Crickey! when you've travelled with T. Blake!" cackled Griffith. "Hey, Tommy? Any one who's watched you play even once ought to be able to clean out a dub like Lallapaloozer Laf.
"What gets me, though, is the way this young Ashton, this lily-white lallapaloozer of a kid-glove C. E., came slipping in with his plans less than a month after the contest. I looked up the records." "What were you doing, digging into that proposition?" demanded Blake. "What d' you suppose? Ashton was slick enough to get an ironclad contract as Resident Engineer.
"He's a lot fitter than all these lallapaloozer papa's boys and some of their fathers, all those empty-headed swells that are called eligibles," rejoined Griffith. "It's not a question of polish or culture, believe me. She is far too clever to doubt that he would acquire that quickly enough. My reference was to this one flaw, which may yet shatter him.
"He must, in the language of the poets, be a lallapaloozer." "He's worth getting hold of," said Dick Blatchford. Therefore, when, a little later, Keith appeared, he was hailed jovially, and invited to drink. Everybody was very cordial. Within five minutes he was hail fellow with them all, joking with the most august of them on terms of equality.
He was to furnish us riding animals at ten dollars each per day; and agreed to transport our baggage at six dollars a hundredweight. The padrone stood aside, smiling cheerfully. "I ver' good fren'? Eh?" he demanded. "My son," said Talbot with feeling, "you're a gentleman and a scholar; indeed, I would go farther and designate you as a genuine lallapaloozer!"
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