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I was pretty leery about feeding the animals horseradish, and would have preferred to have some one else do it, who did not care to live any longer, but I said: "Yes, sir," just like that, and touched my hat to pa, and he said to the boss canvasman: "There's a boy you can swear by."
That'll stop him from doin' any more dirty work for the railroad. He was one of their top gun-fighters always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm." "Where does he live?" Saxon inquired. "Up on Adeline, near Tenth fine neighborhood an' fine two-storied house. He must pay thirty dollars a month rent.
There was a coating of cinders on the top of his derby hat; there were drifts of cinders in the curl of the brim; there were streaks of cinders along the lines where his coat wrinkled; and there was one cinder in his left eye which gave him so leery and bibulous an aspect that an old lady who narrowly escaped colliding with him turned and looked after him in indignation, being half minded to go back and plead with him to lead a better life.
The two that are next 'im are Irish also, Jack O'Donnell and Bill Ryan. When you get a good Irishman you can't better 'em, but they're dreadful 'asty. That little cove with the leery face is Caleb Baldwin the Coster, 'im that they call the Pride of Westminster. 'E's but five foot seven, and nine stone five, but 'e's got the 'eart of a giant.
The fact that it had a funny side struck him, and he laughed, half forlornly, and half in thorough enjoyment. He suddenly sobered down. "She's worth it, anyway," said he. "She's the best there is, and I ought to feel kind of leery of the outcome Well Now, I guess I won't say anything till there's a downright good chance. I see I didn't savvy this kind of business like I thought I did.
"Now, it is possible for a man to mark his samples in characters and to do a one-price business, but you can bet your life that the stranger will be leery of you if your goods are marked in characters.
Maybe he'll just come a-yawnin' tu th' dhure, wid th' dhrawlin' English spache av um, sayin' 'Well, bhoys, an' fwhat's doin'? An' yet again may be he's all nerves afther th' bad break he made in front av us this mornin' expectin' us eyah! waithin', watchin' belike, wid his gun in his fisht. Luk at th' way he acted afther his gun play leery as hell. . . ."
"Why, you whiskery old skunk, you ain't got the grit to shoot sour apples," was Billy's answer. "I know your kind brave as lions when it comes to pullin' miserable, broken-spirited bindle stiffs, but as leery as a yellow dog when you face a man. Pull that trigger! Why, you pusillanimous piece of dirt, you'd run with your tail between your legs if I said boo!"
The old lady and Jerome. Remember?" "And the bell?" I looked about the room. "Exactly. Phenomena! Watson was right. I just wonder but the bell? Remember the doctor? 'The greatest day since Columbus. No, don't cross the room, Harry, I'm a bit leery: A great discovery! I should say it was. How do you account for it?" "Supernatural." Fenton shook his head. "By no means!
Ten minutes afterwards I changed my mind, but then it was too late; the Crocodile was out of signalling distance. This was subsequent to a conversation with Hans. "Baas," said that worthy, in his leery fashion, "I think you have made a mistake.
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