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Updated: June 24, 2025
In two days he was the mascot of the Big Medicine outfit, and all of us had a sneaking hope that his owners wouldn't turn up. When the red wagon was doing business he was in it, and passed up the bottles to Mr. Peters as proud and satisfied as a prince that's abjured a two-hundred-dollar crown for a million-dollar parvenuess. Once John Tom asked him something about his papa.
The Knitting Swede had crimped them all out of a Norwegian bark, plied them with drink, and put them on board the Golden Bough after he had promised to find them a high-waged coasting ship. Young Nils was a sort of mascot in this crowd. He was making his first deep-water voyage under their protection and guidance. Most of them were his townsmen; they had known him from babyhood.
My dear, but it's going to be Heaven." She was in his arms and her eyes were shining like stars. "There's only one rule. All through the whole day no one, not even Binks is allowed to think about the day after." Vane regarded her with mock gravity. "Not even if we're arrested for joy riding?" he demanded. "But the mascot will prevent that, silly boy," she cried.
The belt, drawn absurdly tight around the thin little waist, was a quite sufficient mark of identification. It was Skinny McCord, the latest find, and official mascot of the Bridgeboro troop, one of the crack troop of the camp. Alfred was his Christian name.
What ailded him I don't know, and I ain't calling the turn, but nobody could get nothing out of him, I know that. I talk and talk. I slap him on the shoulder, and pull his leg and sing to him " "S-s-say it over," suggests the mascot. The widow cannot understand. "Why, don't you know, I was expecting him to fix me?" "Is it politics?" "That's what it is.
Jake's often said she was the Cove Street mascot." And with these words sounding in her ears, Lizzie crept softly from the room. Just over the threshold, in the shadow of the broken bits of furniture that had been saved from the fire, she started to see Matty and Josie still waiting for her. "What!" she cried, "have you been here all the time have you seen have you heard "
Next morning some of us were sent down to unload the transport and the rest were put to work setting things to rights at the camp. I was with those that went down to the depot, and here the battalion suffered its first casualty the pet of the whole regiment was lying dead in the box-car and though to an outsider he was only a bulldog, to us he was our beloved "Sandy," the mascot of our battalion.
I told you I hadn't any pals in England. You seem to be the stuff they're made of. You'd be a 'mascot, I'm sure. But your people " "People? I haven't any. At least, a governess I once had said you couldn't call two, 'people. They must be spoken of as 'persons. I have only persons who belong to me just Father and a grown-up sister a half-sister.
He had a punch like a kick from a dray horse but when called upon to use his hands he preferred to rely upon his mascot to ensure success. Freddie's mascot was a few lengths of whalebone bound with twine and socketed into a pear-shaped lump of lead. Scientifically wielded it would go through the helmet of a City policeman like a hot knife through butter.
Then we catch them wood-choppers, and they are no earthly good. But I'm mighty sorry for 'em. Then I reckon we take up Lockwin, and he ain't no congressman, neither. I'm the congressman. Don't you forget that. He die off the point in the boat. We see the point, and we sherry out of that yawl. Hey, there, you moke ain't that about so?" "Yessah!" stammers the mascot.
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