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"Now, for instance, the water in his shower- bath is tepid." There was an instant's silence before Stover inquired, with ominous restraint: "Who's been monkeying with it?" "It's warm!" "Oh!" It was a sigh of relief. "A man can't get in shape taking warm shower-baths. Warm water weakens a person." "Mebbe you-all will listen to me next time!" again cried Willie, triumphantly.
"See here," said Yankee, facing Kenny squarely, "you're a purty level-headed man, and you're up in this business. Do you think with them? No monkeying. Straight talk now." Yankee was in no mood to be trifled with. He was in such deadly earnest that he had forgotten all about Ranald, who was now standing behind him, waiting, with white face and parted lips, for Kenny's answer.
"Aw, you never give me no show!" Sidney protested. "You keep me monkeying around while other young fellers is out on the road. Look at Mortie Savin and all them boys." "Sure, I know," Max rejoined. "They got heads on 'em. You couldn't add up eight figures together, and at your age for a feller to write a hand like that, Sidney " "What are you kicking about?" Sidney exclaimed.
"But what's the use of having the poor beggar make the effort when you know he can't put it over? Why not get down to cases and cure him, instead of monkeying?" "Down to cases! Cure him!" Monsieur sputtered. "How great a surgeon are you to direct me in this impertinent manner?" Really, he was quite a great deal put out. "You fellows cut it," I interposed.
"I believe I've hit the trouble," stated John, with his brown face a shade paler. "You know we saw those fellows monkeying around our wings. It would be an easy matter to trip one or more of those valves and let some of the helium out! That would make us heavier, and if more gas were let out from one wing than from the other, we would be out of balance in the bargain."
"Three service stripes and one wound stripe," he murmured. "And you're not crippled, boy dear?" "Do I fight like one? Hector, man, those punches of yours would have destroyed a battalion of cripples. Oh, you old false-alarm! Honestly, Dad, you're the most awful dub imaginable. And trying to bribe me into permitting you to escape what the deuce have you been monkeying with?
"Let's try it again." The boys bent to their work, but they had lost their vim, and they did not strike their pace again. "I don't understand about Monkey," began Jack, as they drew into the landing. "There is something back of all this, and I mean to find out what it is." "What have you been doing," cried Pepper, who was waiting for them on the landing, "fishing?" "No; monkeying," answered Rand.
For all his life of idleness, which was, as it were, accidental, Peter was essentially a man of action; and life's sedentary movements irked him sorely. "Who is the individual monkeying around at the bow?" he asked presently. "It is Mr. Bissett, the ship's engineer, who is putting a coat of white lead over the yacht's name." "Aha! Aren't we old-sleuthy, though!
"What the deuce ?" said the doctor impatiently. "Oh, yes all right! Only look lively." "Keep her a-viewin' the scenery, Doc, a bit," continued Billy under his breath. "Oh, get a move on, Billy! What are you monkeying about?" said the doctor quite crossly. He was anxious to escape from a position that had become intolerable to him.
'The Katy wasn't bothering you, and there's a law against monkeying with express packages. "And he sits on H. Ogden's stomach and goes through his pockets symptomatically and careful. "'I'll make you perspire for this, says Ogden, perspiring some himself. 'I can prove who I am.
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