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Updated: June 23, 2025
We ran across three of the boys piking at a monte game, who came with us reluctantly; then, guided by Lovell, we started for the Long Branch, where we felt certain we would find Forrest and Roundtree, if they had any money left. Forrest was broke, which made him ready to come, and Roundtree, though quite a winner, out of deference to our employer's wishes, cashed in and joined us.
Of course, he no longer cherished any hope of finding Florette Leteur; Archer's chiding words still lingered in his mind, and, moreover, without the glass he could do nothing for he certainly would never have thought of entering Norne without first "piking" it from a safe vantage point.
It's been done, though, by little, pettifogging shysters, by piking real-estate crooks thousands of parcels of property scattered all over the United States have been filched in that manner. But a hundred-thousand acres! It's the biggest steal that ever has been attempted, to my knowledge, short of a Government grab, and your imagination does you credit. It's easy to see what's been done.
If, by the way, the automobilists succeed in stopping this piking practice, we will print a nice little prayer for them and send it to Saint Peter, so that, though it won't help them in this world, that would be dangerous, it will by and by! In the woods the farmer allows the ferns to stand, for are they not one of the usual attributes of a picnic?
I was going to try to talk you into changing your mind, but just now, when I was piking around, and taking a squint at the work and at your face, I saw it wouldn't be any use. I guess people don't influence you much, hey?" "Roy Blakeley influenced me a lot." "Well then," said Barnard, "let's put the finishing touch on this job while both of us are here to do it. What do you say?
But of course our own well-known principles would make it impossible for us to be late," with a grin. "Yes, I know all about that sort of stuff," said Reddy. "See if for once you can live up to your own 'rep." "All you got to do is keep your eyes peeled, and you'll see us piking in here right on the dot," laughed Tom. "Come on, fellows. The sooner we get started the sooner we'll get back."
Mr Power sent a long laugh down his shaded nostrils. No, Mr Bloom said, the son himself... Martin Cunningham thwarted his speech rudely: Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey. For God's sake! Mr Dedalus exclaimed in fright. Is he dead? Dead!
"That's New York again," he said, with a boyish touch of apology. "It means on the tramp. Travelling along the turnpike. You don't look as if you had come to that though it's queer the sort of fellows you do meet piking sometimes. Theatrical companies that have gone to pieces on the road, you know. Perhaps " with a sudden thought, "you're an actor. Are you?"
"I had a hunch all along that you'd both come piking along sometime to-night or to-morrow, and after this, I refuse to worry in any degree about you. It serves you right, anyway, for going up without us." "Well, in the future, you can go up without me all you want to," laughed Frank. "How about it, Bart?" "You said it," acquiesced Bart heartily. "I'm off that parachute stuff for all time.
"But I'll never go piking off through the country alone so long as I know what I am doing. There's too much danger in it. When you get ready to go into the service, remember that our regiment is one of the very best, and that we are ready to welcome all volunteers with open arms."
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