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"Why, I am describing a woman who is my ideal of beauty " But she had already gone to the next question: "Teeth?" "P-p-perfect p-p-pearls!" he stammered. The laughing red mouth closed like a flower at dusk, veiling the sparkle of her teeth. Was he trying to be impertinent? Was he deliberately describing her?
Right in the start we found all those b-b-bully p-p-pearls in those mussels we g-g-gathered in the Big Sunflower River, and laid away a n-n-nice n-n-nest-egg in bank for the crowd. Sure we'll f-f-find Roland Chase; we've just g-g-got to, that's all." "All I want to say about it, boys," observed Max, "is that I admire the grit of the boy.
Finally, as the sun was sinking low, Jim was allowed to depart, fairly laden with the various good things which the campers insisted on sending to the unfortunate tramp printer. "We can spare them easy enough," Max had remarked. "Sure we can, and more, too," echoed Owen. "B-b-besides, we've b-b-been so lucky, you k-k-know, in our hunt for p-p-pearls, we ought to be g-g-g-g "
Say, perhaps I'm a walking jewelry shop right now, fellers. Mebbe I'm carrying around a whole pearl outfit. Wow! it makes me feel uneasy-like." "D-d-don't you worry any, my b-b-boy," broke in Toby; "no danger of anybody t-t-trying to k-k-kidnap you, even if your pouch was lined with p-p-pearls." "That's wise of you to say such kind things, Toby!
Toby and Bandy-legs had managed to recover from their keen disappointment over the poor result of their afternoon's work. "Reckon we must have struck a bad place," the latter remarked, as they all lounged around the cheery fire after supper had been finished. "That's a f-f-fact," commented Toby, nodding his head in a wise fashion; "I've read that these p-p-pearls happen in a q-q-queer way.
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