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He offers an education to the lucky lad. Two years of prep school, and four years of college." "He is a what you call it safety-first man, is he not?" laughed the Captain. "Is he pro-German? It looks it, setting such a task for children." He turned to the young lady. "Shall we mount? Here are the horses." After the Colonel had watched them canter away, he turned once more to speak to the boys.
'Why, now, paw says "You tell Maw Pettengill I might be willing to take 'em off her hands at fifty dollars a head," he says. 'I should think he might be, I says, 'but they ain't bothering my hands the least little mite. I like to have 'em on my hands at anything less than sixty a head, I says. 'Your pa, I went on, 'is the man that started this here safety-first cry.
I like your style and the way you look like a million dollars. When a fellow walks into a café with you he feels like he's wearing the Hope diamond. Maybe the society in this town has given me the cold shoulder, but I'd like to see any of the safety-first boys walk in with one that's got you beat. That's what I think of you, girl." "Aw, now, you're lighting up. Charley.
If I set eyes on one of them again there'll be murder; I won't be responsible for myself if that cur Werner's smirking physog gets in front of me; and I'll punch Morani on sight, just for safety-first." Conrad rose and went to the door, where he stood in silence a long time looking through the darkness to the camp lights. "I'm thinking of the work," he said gravely. "Oh!" snapped Torrance.
How is it that nearly all the good ones get, or seem to get, the worst of the deal; they certainly play for the most part in hard luck. But then they take risks that the "safety-first" soldier never takes. When I began to write this personal narrative I had two main thoughts in mind.
Helene's jeweled white hand protected the safety-first dozing of her companion, as, through the interstices of his fingers, he studied the inscrutable difference between the face of Warren and the other youths about them. "Let Pop dream of a new way to make a million!" laughed one young man. "His money grows while he sleeps." "Yes, let him dream on," laughed Helene, with a shrill giggle.
Across the windshield of the Napier he fastened an orange-coloured pennant bearing in bright green letters the legend: MY CITY SEQUOIA. As a safety-first precaution against man and beast en route, he buckled a gun-scabbard to the spare tires on the running-board and slipped a rifle into the scabbard within quick and easy reach of his hand; and arrayed thus, George descended upon Red Bluff at the helm of the king of automobiles.
When this proposition was translated to Silvia, she entirely approved, so, committing Diogenes to the Polydores' Providence, we left the hotel at half past eleven for a row on the lake by moonlight. When we descended the slope leading to the House of Mystery, I cautioned silence and a "safety-first" distance. "Ghosts are easily vanished," I informed them.
Silent and grim, he seated himself at the console, and for an hour he wove an intricate pattern of forces upon the inexhaustible supply of keys afforded by the ultra-projector before he once touched a plunger. "What are you doing? I followed you for a few hundred steps, but could go no farther." "Merely a little safety-first stuff.
"Yes, it would be, for you and I'm getting to be a regular Safety-First Simon myself, since they opened up on us. What about those instruments?"
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