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"Miss Julia, she done send some message 'bout this 'ere cake, Miss P'tricia; but, law o' mercy, I'se clean forgot the most 'portant word. Hit were something 'bout you-uns having had a fat-fat-" "Fatiguing day?" Patricia suggested, taking little anticipatory pickings at the corners of the shortcake. Sarah nodded her turbaned head.
He pronounced the last word with a settled conviction, and drove another long, straight drive. Pickings, thrilled at the possibility of another miracle, sliced badly. "This is one of the most truly delightful holes of a picturesque course," said Booverman, taking out an approaching cleek for his second shot.
Some days after his attempt at the doctor's, as he was grubbing in a newly-deposited ash-heap, with the bitter feeling very bad, and the trouble very heavy, he found a dirty old pocket-book, and put it in his bosom without stopping to examine it; for many boys and girls were scratching, like a brood of chickens, all round him, and the pickings were unusually good, so no time must be lost.
The man drew closer to the detective; the latter was fully on his guard, and had the stranger attempted any funny business just at that moment he would have been downed so quick he never would have known what struck him. "You can make some big pickings if you want to, my friend." "I can?" "Yes." "How?" "Do you want to make a few dollars?" "Well, I don't mind if I do, honestly."
They saw a figure coming nearer and nearer and wildly passing by. Just then Agellius was diverted from his painful meditations by hearing one of these fellows say to another, as he roused from a sort of doze, “That’s one of them. We know them all, but very poor pickings can be got out of them; but he has more than most.
"Housekeeper, were you?" said Solomon, with interest. "That must have been a good place, with deuced good pickings, eh?" "Solomon, Solomon," remonstrated his wife, in a low voice, "Mrs. Basil is quite a lady. Don't you see that you offend her?" It is more than probable that, under ordinary circumstances, Mr.
"I'm sorry," said Pickings, feeling his fingers grow cold and clammy on the grip. The eighth hole has many easy opportunities. It is five hundred and twenty yards long, and things may happen at every stroke. You may begin in front of the tee by burying your ball in the waving grass, which is always permitted a sort of poetical license.
The annual pickings of Gaubertin and Mademoiselle Cochet, their wages and perquisites, became so large that the most affectionate relative could not possibly have been more devoted than they to their kindly mistress. There is really no describing how a swindler cossets his dupe. A mother is not so tender nor so solicitous for a beloved daughter as the practitioner of tartuferie for his milch cow.
Casimir observed the consequent embrace through his eyeglass; then he turned to Jean-Marie. 'You hear? he said. 'They are ruined; no more pickings, no more house, no more fat cutlets. It strikes me, my friend, that you had best be packing; the present speculation is about worked out. And he nodded to him meaningly. 'Never! cried Desprez, springing up.
Perhaps the mail would not have been tampered with had not Ben Moody, the lieutenant, possessed certain wisdom that seemed to promise more spoils. "Say, Cap," he said, addressing Hondo Bill, "there's likely to be good pickings in these mail sacks. I've done some hoss tradin' with these Dutchmen around Fredericksburg, and I know the style of the varmints.
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