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"But how would you go about it to rule them out?" The lawyer laughed. "My writs don't run this far. But I thought yours did. Why don't you fire 'em bodily; tell 'em their number is 23 skiddoo! Aren't you the Sublime Porte the court of last resort the big boss over here?" Ford pulled his horse down to a walk.
Would it be better that they should take to open mendicancy, or try to win the soft American heart with such acquired slang as "Skiddoo to twenty-three"? One who had no postal-cards had English enough to say he would go away for a penny; it was his price, and I did not see how he could take less; when he was reproached by a citizen of uncommon austerity for his shameless annoyance of strangers, I could not see that he looked abashed in fact, he went away singing.
I've got educated dandruff, I says, 'and it ain't never fooled me yet. In short, I says, 'I've been handed the office to skiddoo, and in such cases I believe in skiddooing. Let us create a vacancy in these parts sine quinine which, I says, 'is Latin, meaning it's a bitter dose but you gotta take it.
It wasn't till I give him away to de cop on de corner and gets me one dat's cross-eyed dat I lifts de skiddoo off of me." "And what happened to the cop?" inquired Psmith, interested. "Oh, he got in bad, sure enough," said Mr. Jarvis without emotion. "One of de boys what he'd pinched and had sent to de Island once lays for him and puts one over him wit a black-jack. Sure.
Seated in a dark, linoleumed, humid back room, his heart and mind still groped after the mysterious meaning of the springtime jubilee. "Say, Tim," he said to the waiter, "why do they have Easter?" "Skiddoo!" said Tim, closing a sophisticated eye. "Is that a new one? All right. Tony Pastor's for you last night, I guess. I give it up. What's the answer two apples or a yard and a half?"
You're a bonehead. A plug. That's why. Skiddoo for you. Skiddoo for all of us." At the table, while they ate, Tom talked of the joys of farm-life he had known as a boy and as a young man, and confided that it was his dream to go and take up government land somewhere as his people had done before him. Unfortunately, as he explained, Sarah was set, so that the dream must remain a dream.
Billy Roberts put it on inside a week. He got your number, Charley Long, and at the same time he got me." "Skiddoo for you," Long retorted. "Twenty-three's your number." "He's not like you," Saxon went on. "He's a man, every bit of him, a fine, clean man." Long laughed hoarsely. "He's got your goat all right." "And yours," she flashed back. "I could tell you things about him.
I rubbed the skin off both me hands washin' jumpers and overalls to make that dollar. Do you think it come out of them suds to buy the kind you put into you? Skiddoo! Get your mind off of money." Evidently the poses of Talleyrand were not worth one hundred cents on that dollar. But diplomacy is dexterous. The artistic temperament of Mr.
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