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He took off his coat and vest, exposing a pair of purple cotton suspenders. "Throw those down somewhere, will you? Look out for the watch in the vest." "Don't be a fool, Durkin," begged Clint. "You can see it's a put-up job! Let me attend to it, won't you?" Penny shook his head. "No, I've got to do it," he answered. He turned to Dreer. "Will you promise to keep mum about this?" he asked.
It was consequently with very bad grace that Buck received an order to ride in to Paloma one morning for the long-delayed wagon-bolts and a few necessary supplies from the store. He felt at once that it was a put-up job to get him out of the way. Only yesterday Rick Bemis, able at length to ride that distance, had quit the ranch escorted by Slim McCabe.
"We'd best not be seen leavin t' house together, or our folk'll think it's a put-up job. Walk forrard a piece." Byner strolled along the road a little way, and leaned over a wall until Mr. Pickard, wearing his white billycock hat and accompanied by a fine fox-terrier, lounged up with his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat. Together they went a little further along.
"Young man," Tish said coldly, "if you know all this, why are you sitting here and not alarming the authorities?" "Pooh!" he said disagreeably. "It's a put-up scheme, to advertise the park. Yellowstone's got ahead of them this year, and has had its excitement, with all the papers ringing with it. That was a gag, too, probably." "Do you mean " "I mean considerable," he said.
The bill amounted to five sequins; four of which had been advanced in cash by the landlord to pay the driver who had brought them from Fusina. I saw that it was a put-up thing, yet I paid with pretty good grace, for I guessed that the scoundrel had left Venice without a penny.
It was a great thing to have a prophet for a brother and whether this was a put-up job between them, is to this day a mystery. But they were smart men. The Prophet enlarged his rant. To the whites he proclaimed that he, the Open Door, Tecumseh, the Shooting Star, and the other twin brother all had come at one birth.
"I don't know I sup ... sup-pose so." Bolliver's tongue grew heavy and tripped up his words. "And yet you've the cheek, you old rogue you, to insinuate that this was a put-up job?" "I ... I only say what I heard." "I don't care a button what you heard or didn't hear. What I ask, my pretty, is do you yourself say so?" "The ... the defendant recommended him."
We went all through the streets and houses and saw ballrooms that beat anything in San Francisco, and when we went into a building occupied by the officers in charge of the excavations, and dad saw a telephone and an electric light, he thought those things had been dug up, too, and he claimed that the men who were receiving millions of dollars in royalties on telephones and electric lights were frauds who were infringing on Pompeii patents 2,000 years old, and he wouldn't believe me when I told him that telephones and electric lights were not dug up; he said then he wouldn't believe anything was dug up, but that the whole thing was a put-up job to rob tourists.
"What a scoundrel the man is!" said the Professor pettishly; "he'd sell his father for what he could get." "It shows how much his word is to be depended upon. I expect this accusation of Random is a put-up job." "I hope so, for Random's sake," said Braddock, trotting briskly along.
Now there was one question that had to be examined into, and now another; there were periods of grace allowed, and summonses to be issued to the dead man to make his appearance within such and such a time, and what not besides! It was all a put-up job, so that the pettifoggers could make something out of it. He was thoroughly tired of Stone Farm.
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