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She laid the hand face down again on the table, and slowly the lingering eyes withdrew from her, having learned nothing. MacDonald smiled benevolently. "I see you, Daylight, and I hump this time for two thousand. How's that hunch, Jack?" "Still a-crawling, Mac. You got me now, but that hunch is a rip-snorter persuadin' sort of a critter, and it's my plain duty to ride it.
"This quite overcomes me," said Professor Gray to Mr. Hooper. "I hurried back to invite some of my pupils to hear a message from Mr. Edison's laboratory; but trust Bill to do the thing in a monumental fashion!" "That there lad's a reg'lar rip-snorter, Perfesser. You can't beat him.
I don't go around with a chip on my shoulder. It's the quiet boys you want to look out for. Am I right?" Crawford gave a little snort of laughter and covered it hastily with a cough. "You know it," went on the quiet man who was a rip-snorter when he got going.
Have you ever had a real jag on you, not the big dinner, big bottle, big cigar sort of imitation, but the wild-eyed, imp-seeing, genuine rip-snorter?" "No. Neither have you." "I should have denied the charge before to-night. But I know now what it means. It is a brain-storm induced by rum.
"Say, does the water ever come up here?" "I don't think so. Even at the spring tides, it would probably not reach within two feet of this ledge. Only a rip-snorter of a tempest could endanger goods stored here, or even anybody who chose this cave to hide in." "Some hiding-place," admitted Roger. "So I've found it.
When a man has got the drop on me I don't aim to argue with him. Not none. Tim Harrigan had notions. Different here. I've done some rough-housin'. When a guy puts up his dukes I'm there. Onct down in Sonora I slammed a fellow so hard he woke up among strangers. Fact. I don't make claims, but up at Carbondale they say I'm some rip-snorter when I get goin' good. I'm quiet.
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