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In th' first place, they've got four or five more ringers than we know about. I seen Courant talkin' mighty secret-like to two waiters in th' hall this evenin", an' th' driver o' that cab o' theirn was a baggage hustler at th' Bellyvoo as late as yesterday." "By thunder, I believe their game was to mix us up in a big free-for-all fight when they got us into that dance dive.
'I suppose, said Mr Toodle, relishing his meal infinitely, 'as our Biler is a doin' now about as well as a boy can do, eh, Polly? 'Oh! he's a doing beautiful! responded Polly. 'He ain't got to be at all secret-like has he, Polly? inquired Mr Toodle. 'No! said Mrs Toodle, plumply.
"Well, Sunday did come, an' I did have a beautiful tea ready; muffins and a bit o' cold ham not so salt as poor Sarah's and a pot o' blackberry-an'-apple jam. Brother John were the first to come. He fair give me a start, for I didn't expect en so early; he did put his head in at the door, an' beckon this way, so secret-like." "'Mary, he whispered, 'Mary, be she come? "'Not yet, John, says I.
'I'm glad he ain't got to be at all secret-like, Polly, observed Mr Toodle in his slow and measured way, and shovelling in his bread and butter with a clasp knife, as if he were stoking himself, 'because that don't look well; do it, Polly? 'Why, of course it don't, father. How can you ask!
Then one mornin' when Farmer Jocelyn was a-walkin' with the baby in the fields I said to 'im, secret-like 'That ain't your child! an' he sez 'Ow do you know it ain't? An' I sez Because I saw it come with a stranger' an' he laughed an' said 'It may be mine for all that! But I knew it worn't! A nice little girl she is too, Miss Innocent poor soul!
Git ketched an' they tell as how they's scouts, workin' secret-like. Scouts o' ourn if we ketch 'em; Yankees do the blue bellies take 'em. But they ain't nothin' but lowdown trash as nobody wants, for sure!" He dug his pole into the water as if he were impaling a guerrilla on it. "They's mean, plenty mean, suh. Don't go foolin' 'round them!" "Any special place they hang out?" Drew wanted to know.
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