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Updated: June 21, 2025
"On your way, now, on your way!" says I; gazin' haughty over the brass gate. "No window cleanin' done here durin' office hours!" "But," says the specimen on the other side, "I I didn't come to clean the windows." "Eh?" says I, sizin' up the blue flannel shirt, the old leather belt, and other marks of them pail and sponge artists.
Also he reminds me that he is Crosby Rhodes and writes the name of the hotel where he's stopping on his card. It's almost like a reunion with an old college chum. "But how do you happen to be sizin' up a show window like this?" says I, indicatin' the Maison Noir's display of classy gowns. "Got somebody back home that you might take a few samples to?"
Funny thing that bunch of punchers what started me lookin' for that there hotel that time they come jinglin' up last week. Didn't know I was the boss till one of 'em grins after sizin' me up and says er well, two three words what kids hadn't ought to hear, and then, 'It's him, boys! Then I steps out and says, 'It is, gents. Come right in and have dinner and it won't cost you fellas a cent.
"An' I has observed him present yere the last two-three nights. But I ain't aimin' to ax no favors frum him." "You ain't needin' to," said Cump. "I'll 'tend to that myse'f. Besides, Purfessor, you is sizin' up Jeffy Poindexter wrong. He's went an' 'sperienced a change of heart in his feelin's tow'ds whut's goin' on yere.
''Tis not for me to argue, sez I, 'fwhatever ye are, Mister Dearsley, but, by my hand, I'll take away the temptation for you that lies in that sedan-chair. 'You will have to fight me for ut, sez he, 'for well I know you will never dare make report to any one. 'Fight I will, sez I, 'but not this day, for I'm rejuced for want av nourishment. 'Ye're an ould bould hand, sez he, sizin' me up an' down; 'an' a jool av a fight we will have.
Course, though, as for figurin' out why she ever noticed me at all, that's a myst'ry I had to pass up. Must have been soon after she went away that I begun sizin' up some critical the gen'ral style and get up of the party whose hair I was combin' and whose face I was washin' more or less reg'lar.
"That's the way he's sizin' of 'em up," said Samantha, leaning over Vilda's shoulder with a smile. "I'll bet they've sized him up enough sight better 'n he has them!" Jabe left the children outside, and came in with the basket. Putting his hat in the wood-box and hitching up his trousers impressively, he sat down on the settle.
But, you see, I couldn't ask him to marry me. Mussy on us, he was slow!" "Did you have to help him out, Ma?" "Help him? Did you ever know a gal who didn't help her 'beau' out? Boy, when a gal gets fixed on a man he's got a job if he's goin' to get clear. Unless he's like my Rube ter'ble slow." "That's how you're sizin' me now," said Seth, with a short laugh. Ma Sampson worked on assiduously.
I don't approve of makin' light of anybody's religious observances if they're ever so foolish," said Aunt Abby somewhat enigmatically. "Our minister keeps remindin' us that the Baptists and Methodists are our brethren, but I wish he'd be a little more anxious to have our S'ceity keep ahead of the others." "Jed's 'bout right in sizin' up the Widder Tillman," was Mr.
This organisin' for a baile ain't no bagatelle, an' two hours is the least wherein any se'f-respectin' buck who's out to make a centre shot on the admiration of the squaws an' wake the envy of rival bucks, can lay on the pigments, so he paints away at his face, careful an' acc'rate, sizin' up results meanwhile in a jimcrow lookin' glass.
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