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Mother Howard, still looking through uncolored glasses, took the letter and scanned it. "You two ain't quitters, are you?" "'Oo, us?" Harry bristled. "Yes, you. If you are, get yourselves a piece of paper and write to Denver and take the offer. If you ain't keep on fighting." "I believe you 're right, Mother Howard."
Her brown eyes twinkled a swift glance around the table. "If you think these boys are quitters, Luck Lindsay, you just ought to have been around when they were hanging on to their homesteads! I could tell you things " "You say buying a camera is just a starter. How much do you figure it would cost to make our Big Picture?
Both looked worried, the American feverishly so. He walked up and down the hearthrug, sucking an unlit black cigar. 'Say, Dick, he said, this is a bad business. It wasn't no fault of yours. You did fine. It was us me and Sir Walter and Mr Macgillivray that were the quitters. 'Any news? I asked. 'So far the cover's drawn blank, Sir Walter replied.
What are you doing? It's your own fault if you lose your job, Still!" Pen got up and turned Sara's pillow and shaded the light from his face, mechanically. "You are just like all the rest of what you call the Anglo-Americans. You go about feeling superior and abused and calling the immigrants hard names. You are just a lot of quitters. You have refused national service.
"What about Lucretia?" asked Danby, with the air of an established friendship which permitted the asking of such questions. "She's ready to the minute," replied Porter. "Can she get the five furlongs?" queried Danby. "She's by Assassin, and some of them were quitters." "She'll quit if she falls dead," replied the other man, quietly. "I've worked her good enough to win, and I'm backing her."
For it was Harry Fisher who had fallen and lay now on the wet bank with his arms flung wide and a red spot rimmed with purple in the center of his forehead; and Fisher was Ronicky Joe's partner. "You lay where you are," commanded the sheriff, and indeed there had been no rousing response to Ronicky Joe's appeal. "You yaller quitters," groaned Joe.
"We'll have no fighting here on this field." "He'll have to swallow his words, or I'll punch him for them!" "I'll play no further with that fellow umpiring!" declared Featherstone. "I am going to stop right here, and I think some of the rest feel the same. Come on, boys, let's quit." "The quitters will quit," came from Sparkfair; "but I don't believe there are many quitters here, Feather."
Still, he was of Scotch-Irish stock, and even the most ardent Nationalist would be slow to maintain that the men from beyond the Boyne are what is popularly and tersely described as "quitters." "I'd be better pleased if I had any sort of notion where that joker was heading for," he said, with a grim smile. "I didn't count on taking a joy-ride at this hour of the morning."
We suffered from the thought that the distortion, exaggeration and partisan outcry at home was making use of half-statements of returned comrades or half-statements from uncensored letters, in such a way as to make us appear cry-babies and quitters. But down in our hearts we were conscious that our record, our morale, our patriotism were sound.
And if any of you quitters and cowards have got anything to say why my sentence won't be carried out, now is the time to say it." He glowered into their faces, but no one said anything except Zeburee Nute, who quavered: "We allus knowed you was the smartest man that ever came to this town, and " "Close that mouth!" yelped Cap'n Sproul. "It's worse than an open hatch on a superphosphate schooner."
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