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Updated: May 11, 2025
It's the way as lads have; and there's no holding 'em when they're fellows as nobody knows neither where they come fro', nor what they've been doing a' their lives, till they come athwart some poor wench like Nancy Hartley. She were but a softy after all: for she left off doing her work in a proper manner.
Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good- humoredly. "What's she know about such things, anyway? I tell you it is good, and healthy, too," this last as an afterthought. "Look at me. I tell you I have to live clean to be in condition like this.
Nor was he entirely free from the mistaken notions about manliness to which his teacher had referred. He had more than once been sneered at, by some of the boys at Mr. Garrison's, for refusing to do what seemed to him wrong. They had called him "Softy," and hinted at his being tied to his mother's apron-strings.
"They called them 'Tods' and 'Toddies, but they had all sorts of names besides, to distinguish one from the other. There was, 'Whity, and 'Browny, and 'Softy, and 'Snuggy, and 'Stripy, and many others. They knew almost every hair of each of them, and I believe could have told which was which, in the dark, merely by their feel.
"I have my doubts." "Why, I think so, Mr. Ricks. I might be a little cautious at first " "Well, I don't think you could," Cappy interrupted. "Well, I do," old Gurney declared with some warmth. "I've been out with Joey on his yacht and I know what the boy can do." "Bah! You're a doddering old softy, Joe. Yachting is one thing and sailoring is another.
They won't be all dead an' gone till a hundred years 'as rolled away, an' even then I shouldn't wonder if one or two was still left on the tramp a-pipin' his little 'arf-a-league onard tale o' woe to the first softy as forgits the date o' the battle." Here he gave an inquisitive side-glance at his companion. "But you aint quite o' the Balaclava make an' colour.
"No, it wasn't; only you looked so worried that I thought I " Her voice broke, and she began again freshly. "What I wanted to tell you was that we're planning a trip across the bay to Oakland, next Saturday, for a tramp in the hills." "Who 's going?" "Myrtle Hayes " "What! That little softy?" he interrupted. "I don't think she is a softy," Bessie answered with spirit.
"She's a softy!" declared Dolly, scornfully. "I'll bet Bessie and I could have spent the night there and been all right, too, after it was all over." "You and Bessie are both unusually strong and healthy, Dolly. It may not be her fault that she's a softy, as you call her. The Camp Fire pays a whole lot of attention to health. That's why Health is one of the words that we use to make up Wo-he-lo.
I've got a joke to tell you, something about the master and his girl. You ain't to let on to him you know, though. I found it out last night when he was off to the shore. That old key of Uncle Jim's was just the thing. He's a softy, and no mistake." Upstairs in his little room, the schoolmaster was writing his letter.
If it'd help such a poor ninny as Mrs. Langbein any to beat her, I'd say, 'Go ahead! Never mind us! But you couldn't pound sense inter a softy like her, no matter what you done. In the first place, she lets that fella get away from her evenin's when, if she'd an ounce o' sense, she could keep him stickin' so close at home, a capcine plaster wouldn't be in it.
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