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There are several kinds of Birds of Paradise, but the one in the cut is the most common, and is that of which these fables are told." The next bird Uncle Brown showed Charley, was a very curious looking one, named the Toco Toucan, a native of the American tropics. It has, as you see, a monstrous sized bill, though it is not nearly so heavy, as it looks, being mostly of a honey comb make.
The interior of the little building to which we now turn, was thus arranged: The ground floor was divided into a kitchen and three other apartments, viz: a middle sized room, by favor called the parlor, in which was generally the dwelling place of the family, and a small chamber on either side of the parlor.
And got away with it again confound his soul!" "What happened? Any more dirty work? Did anything get into the papers?" "No oh, no! You've got that sized up wrong, Larry. He's no yellow journalist or anything like that. He's only the slickest underground worker this town ever saw with his confounded apologetic, worried-looking mask of a face.
"Pooh!" said Ajax. "He's keen as mustard to collar this thief the keener, possibly, since he discovered that the fellow is a tenderfoot. I've sized him up about right. He wants to establish a record. It's like this teetotal business of his. The people here refuse to believe evil of a man who drinks water, goes to church, and catches horse- thieves. I'll add one word more.
"Well, I ain't wantin' ter be buttin' in none," said Sol, in a crestfallen way. "Yer ain't butted in none, Sol. I'm obliged ter yer fer givin' me ther tip erbout ther old sharp. When he fust braced me I sized him up fer a sharp, an' when he told me he was a hoss trader from Missouri I had a straight line on him."
He called her in, and one glance at her settled the matter. She was about eighteen, as slim and straight as a dart, and, by far and away, the prettiest woman I had seen in the group. She stood there mighty sullen as I sized her up, and admired her splendid black hair that was bound by a red ribbon at the nape of her neck, very coquettish and attractive.
"Newmark, you're as clever as the devil," said he. "But aren't you afraid to lay out your cards this way?" "Not with you," replied Newmark, boldly; "with anybody else on earth, yes. With you, no." Orde continued to laugh, still in the low undertone. "The worst of it is, I believe you're right," said he at last. "You have the thing sized up; and there isn't a flaw in your reasoning.
Radio the San Francisco fields that we will be coming in soon, and we need a large electro-magnet one designed to work on about 500 volts D.C., and some good sized storage cells; how many will have to be decided later, depending on the room we will have for them. I'll start decelerating now so we can make the turn and circle back.
I strained the truth enough to say you were a pretty good fellow and a long ways from that kind of a fool, according to my reckoning. 'Umph! says he. 'Is he rich? I told him I guessed you wan't so rich that you got round-shouldered lugging your money. 'Why? says I, getting curious. 'Have you met him, Mr. Colton? If you have you ought to have sized him up yourself.
Exit our Greek god at the end of June, to be replaced by a young American citizen about the first of July one small atom who thinks to make the same sized mark on the great plain of life that he made on the college campus. All the same, there were good clean ideals back of John Derby's blue eyes, and fresh, healthy young blood surged through his veins.
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