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He reached under, and drew out a paper-covered volume by Clark Russell called "A Sailor's Sweetheart." He gave a great sigh of contentment. Presently, to his cell came the doorman and said: "Say, kid, that old gazabo that was pinched with you for scrapping seems to have been the goods after all.
We had to be very careful of the other dogs on account of his 'scrapping' propensities. He killed one poor beast I think we nicknamed him rather appropriately. He was affectionately dubbed 'Bully." As Robb pronounced the name he held out his hand again and flicked his fingers. The dog rose from his grovelling posture and came eagerly forward, wagging his lank tail.
John rose from his hearty supper and strolled along the line of his regiment, recruited again to its full strength of twelve hundred men. Two fellows who were messmates were scrapping about a question of gravy. One wanted lots of gravy and his meat done brown. The other insisted on having his meat decently cooked, but not swimming in grease.
"Anyway, there's no use of our scrapping about it 'cause I don't suppose we'll find her. As long as we're going south through the mountains we might as well see if we can pick out Norne with the glass. Maybe we could even see that feller Blondel's house.
When he got up to a limb he yelled to me to come on up, as he wanted to give me a few last instructions about settling his estate, but I told him I was going to play I was Daniel in the lion's den, so I studied the bears for a while and let dad yell for the police, and then I picked up an armful of tomato cans and made a rush for the bears, and yelled and threw cans at them, and pretty soon every bear went off into the woods, growling and scrapping with each other, and I told dad to come down and I would save him at the risk of my life.
"I guess I can do all right now working nights with Alex," Tim said uneasily. "All right," Don agreed. "Any time you want to come around, though " He waited, but Tim said nothing. Don went home feeling rather blue. "I suppose he'll start scrapping with everybody all over again," he muttered. But he was wrong. Tim went his way moody and silent, but with no chip on his shoulder.
I want to put you wise about this scrapping with your head-barber all the time. I've had a lot of experience with employees, and let me tell you it doesn't pay to antagonize " At the drab wooden house in which she lived he said good-night briefly and amiably, but as the taxicab drove off he was praying "Oh, my God!"
The load gradually fell from her heart, she was at ease again. And she went back to bed, thinking of Sasha who lay fast asleep in the next room and sometimes cried out in his sleep: "I'll give it to you! Get away! Quit your scrapping!" It was a dark autumn night.
"I'd like to congratulate you, old man," he said, wringing the Angel's hand, "but honestly I think you are up against it." To me at their first call he said: "What will you do with such a man you, who have gone scrapping through life, browbeating gentle souls like myself into giving you your own way on every point, and letting you ride rough-shod over us without a protest?
"Well, anyhow," he said, "you'll soon get it knocked out of you, that's one comfort. Look here, if you do get scrapping with anybody, don't forget all I've taught you. And I should go on boxing there if I were you, so as to go down to Aldershot some day. You ought to make a fairly decent featherweight if you practise." "All right."
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