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Updated: May 28, 2025
We'll never get to Rockford to-night. What shall I do?" "We take 'em back if oo dive us some tandy!" mocked Will, who, with his chums, had been an interested observer of the little scene. "Smarty!" exclaimed his sister. "But I'll take you at your word just the same.
Then without waiting for a reply to this innuendo he turned his attention to Hardy. "He hain't shot up any camps," he repeated, "ner packed a gun for three days, hey? Now here's where I prove you a liar, Mr. Smarty. I seen him with my own eyes take six shots at one of my herders this very mornin' and you was there!"
"All right!" Then aside to Kent, "I'll wait till he calls me twice more, Kent. Keep them coming." "Lydia!" "Yes, Dad. Not so hard, Kent. Don't throw curves, just because I can't." "Lydia! I shan't call again." "Coming, Dad! Good night, Kent. Face tag!" "Face tag yourself, smarty. Maybe I'll be over, to-morrow, if I ain't got anything better to do." Lydia sauntered slowly up to the kitchen steps.
"Deadwood Gamely's father is a lawyer," Pepsy said, "and I hate Deadwood Gamely and I wouldn't go to his house to ask his father. He's a smarty and I hit him with a tomato. Have I got a right to do that if he's a smarty?" Here was another legal technicality, but Pee-wee was equal to the occasion. "A a scout has to be a he has to have a good aim," he said.
Smarty, I'm going home, and you're going to find the watch." "Say, you might help a fellow and be decent about it," pleaded Ted. "I didn't lose the watch, and I won't help you look for it," snapped back Hi Martin, as he strode away. "But if you aren't at my home with that gold watch before dark to-night, then you may look for things to happen to you!
"Wal, now, sonny, you ain’t really wantin’ this here book back? Never knowed any li’l boy what warn’t glad to see th’ last o’ a book. Better git away from a real man ’fore you gits yore backside warmed. That’s what th’ teacher does to smarty kids, ain’t it?" "You’d better watch out, Sam." Again the tall man cut in.
He took away his property, but Job didn't sin; and when God met the devil, he said: "Well, what did I tell you, smarty?" "Ah," he said, "that is all very well, but you touch his flesh and he will curse you; and he did, but Job didn't curse him. And then what did God do to help him! He gave him some other children better looking than the first ones.
"Why yes," added Mark, "Landy is doing all right, even if he does wheeze more'n is good for him. Apparently, Landy took this as a great compliment, for his perspiring face was set in a grin of triumph as he thrust out his tongue at Lil Artha, as much as to say: "See, Mister Smarty, others appreciate my good qualities if you don't.
'Now most everybody goes by railroad, and the rest don't drink. In the old times the barkeeper owned the bar himself, 'and was gay and smarty and talky and all jeweled up, and was the toniest aristocrat on the boat; used to make $2,000 on a trip. A father who left his son a steamboat bar, left him a fortune. Now he leaves him board and lodging; yes, and washing, if a shirt a trip will do.
"Did you get the chicken, Granny?" he asked weakly. No one answered. "I say, did you get the chicken, Granny?" Reddy's voice sounded a little sharp and cross as he asked this time. Still there was no reply, and Reddy began to be a little bit suspicious. He turned over and raised his head to look. Instead of old Granny Fox, there was Unc' Billy Possum grinning at him. "Smarty, Smarty is a thief!
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