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'Why doan't he larn a trade? demanded Louie. 'Theer's Harry Wigson, he's gone to Manchester to be prenticed. He doan't goo loafin round aw day. Her sharp wits disconcerted Reuben. He looked anxiously at David. The boy coloured furiously, and cast an angry glance at his sister. 'Theer's money wanted for prenticin, he said shortly. Reuben felt a stab.
"I've made it my business lately to keep one eye on Joe. He spends half his time loafin' at Andy Gilmore's rooms, and the other half gettin' pickled." "What do you wish me to do?" asked the judge, addressing himself to Mrs. Montgomery. "I wish, Judge, that you'd send word to him that you want to see him!" "And toss a good healthy scare into him!" added Mr. Shrimplin aggressively.
Wingate, having a few final calls to make, left the station soon afterwards and did not return until evening. And that evening he heard news which surprised him. As he and Captain Sol were exchanging a last handshake on the platform, Barzilla said: "Well, Sol, I've enjoyed loafin' around here and yarnin' with you, same as I always do. I'll be over again in a month or so and we'll have some more."
Git right out, you loafin' bum, an' fetch 'em in, an' then get the muck off'n your face, an' clean this doggone shack up. I'd sure say you was a travelin' hospital o' disease by the look of you. I'm payin' you a wage and a heap good one, so git out an' I'll see to that darn milk." Argument was out of the question, so Sunny adopted the easier course of obedience to his employer's orders.
I don't see that he's doin' the child a particle of harm, and I don't believe you see it either. To be sure you don't think much of football, but it's a long ways better than loafin' round with nothin' to do, and this boy scout business that Archibald talks so much about sounds all right to me. Now, he never would have thought a thing about that except for Mr. O'Hara." "Yes, that's all right.
He was surprised, therefore, when Simon Squabbles handed him out only eight dollars and fifty cents. "There is some mistake here," Jasper remarked as he counted over the money. "I want fifty cents more." "That's all you're goin' to get," Simon replied. "I saw ye loafin' this afternoon when ye should have been workin', an' 'no work, no pay' is my motto." "Loafing, do you say?"
They used to smell something frightful; but they only exploded about half the time. No matter what they did do, he always claimed that it was just exactly what he intended; but his hands was colored up constant like a fried egg, an' I never took much joy in loafin' about the woodshed. That night as soon as I had my dishes washed an' the kitchen red up, we caught the goat an' took him to the barn.
His voice was low and cautious. "Mr. Trask." "Oh." "Can't sleep," said Trask. "What's going on?" "Storm wake ye up?" "Not exactly. I've been wakeful since I went to my room." "Guess we woke ye up." "Well, I've heard considerable movement, and it made me curious." "How long ye been out?" "I was out when it first rained." "Oh, then it was you!" "I? I don't understand." "Loafin' along the rail."
"I don't stand fer questions from no remittance guy. Gee! things is gittin' pretty low-down when it comes to that." "Maybe a remittance man ain't a first-class callin'," said Toby, his grin replaced by a hot flush. "But if it comes to that I'd say a lazy loafin' bum ain't a heap o' credit noways neither. Howsum, them things don't alter matters any.
An' Sam was off gallivantin' 'round at dances, an' worse things, an' not trainin' none whatever. An' Gallager says t' himself, 'Here's where I cure that Injun of th' twig habit. You see, Sam was that soft from loafin', he couldn't have beat a mud turtle up a hill, so Gallager figgers Sam'll likely lose th' race, anyway, an' it'll be worth it t' get clear o' that infernal twig.
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