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"No," little Hannah said, wisely. "He likes cookies." Coaxingly: "Maxy dear, won't you tell?" "No, you bet I won't! you're nothing but girls." "Is it a surprise, Max?" Hannah suggested, anxiously. "Won't tell yer," contemplating his brass-tipped toes. "Maxy, I'll give you a big cookey if you'll tell." "You nasty thing, I don't want a cookey."
I don't recollec' whether he just had goat whiskers or chewed tobacco, but somebody who had been liquorin' up told him he looked like the Emperor Maximilian. And you know what happened to Maxy." "That's all right, neighbor.
It was just as he finished reading this extract that the shrill fluttering call of the maxy bird was heard from the bare branches of a poplar near the station, and in the next instant, in that intense quiet that succeeds sometimes a sudden unexpected and acute accent, the Morse register was audible above us, clicking with a continuity and evident intention that, weighted as we were with vague sensational hopes, drew the blood from our faces, and seemed almost like a voice from the red orb then glowing in the southeastern sky.
"Max, how you frightened me!" cried Hannah; then, "oh, Maxy, what's the matter?" Mitz was forgotten; he gave a leap, shawl and pillow-case, and before Hannah could prevent, had crept out of his bandages and was standing a free cat, with arched back and a defiant tail. By this time Mrs. Liseke had come out of the fire-place with her two youngest in her arms.
He jogged past Maxy Schaffer's Railroad Hotel at the corner of Front Street, which flung the wicked radiance of its bar-room windows along the shining railroad track where it crossed the creek on the new iron bridge; and keeping on down Water Street with its smoky tenements, entered an outlying district where the lamps were far apart and where red and blue and green switch lights blinked at him out of the storm.
He had only paused at Maxy Schaffer's Railroad Hotel to partake of what he called a Kentucky breakfast a drink of whisky and a chew of tobacco a simple dietary protection against the evils of an empty stomach, to which he particularly drew Custer's attention. His father's occupation was entirely satisfactory to Custer.
'Tis only an exile full of homesickness sitting on a lump of glass that's just cost him a thousand dollars. Now, what was it Johnny said to the widow first? I'd like to hear it again, Maxy honest. Don't mind what I said. "Maximilian Jones and I sat down and talked. He was about as sick of the country as I was, for the grafters were squeezing him for half the profits of his rosewood and rubber.
"Now, me and Jones thought that nice of the General to remember when the Fourth came. It made us feel good. He must have heard the news going round in Philadelphia about that disturbance we had with England. "'Yes, says me and Maxy together, 'we knew it. We were talking about it when you came in. And you can bet your bottom concession that there'll be fuss and feathers in the air to-morrow.
Sitting on ice, and calling his best friends pseudonyms. Hi! muchacho! Jones called my force of employees, who was sitting in the sun, playing with his toes, and told him to put on his trousers and run for the doctor. "'Come back, says I. 'Sit down, Maxy, and forget it. 'Tis not ice you see, nor a lunatic upon it.
She gives the impression of demanding the best one has rather an unusual characteristic in a girl of her age." "She does demand the best and gets it," answered Josephine warmly. Ten feet away Sally was speaking hurriedly: "The thing I wanted most to see you for, Maxy, was to make sure you weren't really angry with me for taking my own way about this." Her hand pressed his arm.
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