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Updated: May 19, 2025
One old leather-face, 'specially they told me after he was a General was as nice as pie, an' had me in an' fed me a fresh meat and canned asparagus lunch and near chuckled himself into a choking fit when I told him about dad, an' my being booked up as a Benevolent Neutral. He was so mighty pleasant that I told him I'd like to have my dad make him a present of as dandy an auto as rolls in France.
"'Deed, THAT ain't the ticket, Miss Mary Jane," I says, "by no manner of means; go BEFORE breakfast." "Why?" "What did you reckon I wanted you to go at all for, Miss Mary?" "Well, I never thought and come to think, I don't know. What was it?" "Why, it's because you ain't one of these leather-face people. I don't want no better book than what your face is.
The archer turned his bronzed face, stared for an instant with wild eyes, and then, dropping his two ladies, who were instantly carried off by his comrades, he rushed to seize the hand which his young master held down to him. "Now, by my hilt, Squire Nigel, this is the fairest sight of my lifetime!" he cried. "And you, old leather-face!
"'Deed, THAT ain't the ticket, Miss Mary Jane," I says, "by no manner of means; go BEFORE breakfast." "Why?" "What did you reckon I wanted you to go at all for, Miss Mary?" "Well, I never thought and come to think, I don't know. What was it?" "Why, it's because you ain't one of these leather-face people. I don't want no better book than what your face is.
Old leather-face, sugar-eye, plar-bag marmy, I call it you." "Plar-bag marmy" meant "Mother Flour-bag", and ration sugar was decidedly muddy in appearance. She came round the waterhole with a clothes prop, and made good time, too; but we got across and away with our clothes. That little incident might have changed the whole course of my existence.
"Didn't I tell you, Cap, that I'd have old Dupont eating out of your hand in less than a week?" he challenged. "Old leather-face has an ear to the ground. He's heard the rumble of my thunder and he wants to get to cover." His face lighted with enthusiasm as he went on: "Just wait until the lightning begins to play around some of these birds. Then you'll see them scamper.
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