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"Well, there's oodles o' blueberries," said the Boy, his inky-looking mouth bearing witness to veracity; "and there are black and red currants in the snow, and rose-apples " "Oh, yes," returned the other, "it's a sort of garden of Eden!"
When the checks are made up, his shows the loss and he has to make it up. Not much fun for him. Perhaps he has a family and he can't afford it. I never used to bother either, but once I was taking dinner in New York with a friend of mother's who has oodles of money, and when he came to pay the check he looked every item over and counted the change and it was thirty cents overcharged.
Where do you think you are raiding the Spanish Main? There's every chance of our coming out top hole, as those lime-juicers say, with oodles of dough and a whole skin." "Say, don't I know this Sulu game? I tell you, if he does find his atoll there won't be any shell. Not a chance in a hundred! Somebody's been giving him a song and dance.
"Oodles and oodles of it, gold and gold and better than gold, in cask and chest, in cask and chest, a fathom under the sand," the Ancient Mariner assured him in beneficent cackles. "Kings, principalities and powers! all of us, the least of us. And plenty more, my gentlemen, plenty more.
"I'll be right behind you in everything, and so will Jimmie," Barney continued in his exciting manner "but you'll be the party out in front who really puts the proposition over. And we'll keep to things where the police can't touch us. Get a man with coin and position tangled up right in a deal with a woman, and he'll never let out a peep and he'll come across with oodles of money.
Their creditors do not have even the mournful satisfaction of contemplating the hole the amateur editor invariably pulls it in after him. But until his first notes fall due he is an iridescent glory. He adores himself with a long-tailed hand-me-down Albert Edward and carries the universe in his arms. He pokes his meddlesome proboscis into everything and gives oodles of advice, unasked.
I plan to pile off at Sespe, away up the line, and take a short cut via a cattle-trail over the hills. I'll hike it." She hesitated slightly. Then: "I'm sure father would be very happy to give you a lift out from El Toro, Sergeant. We shall have oodles of room." "Thank you. You are very kind.
"I don't care," the latter repeated, the last thing before they climbed into their respective berths, "it must be oodles of fun to work for the movies." While the chums slept there were great doings outside the snow-bound train.
We've oodles of things to wrap for the 'Mystery Auction, and Hippy you must be auctioneer. You can do it to perfection." "Tell us all about this affair. I received rather indefinite accounts of it in the exceedingly brief letters that I have been favored with of late," said Tom Gray, fixing a reproachful eye upon Grace.
I shall not forget that little performance in a hurry." "They certainly put one over on us with that miserable old beauty contest, too." Natalie's voice quivered with bitterness. "Leila Harper was to blame for that, Nat. She is the cleverest girl at Hamilton. We made a serious mistake in the beginning about her. They say her father has oodles of money."
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