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Updated: May 11, 2025
Now a lunatic or a Softy, protected by that functionary, is literally a lamb protected by a wolf, and that wolf ex officio the cruellest, cunningest old mangler and fleecer of innocents in Christendom.
Been bullying all that softy crowd cheeked the old man we had to go fooling all over a half-drowned ship to save him. Dam' nigh a mutiny all for him and now the mate abused me like a pickpocket for forgetting to dab a lump of grease on them planks. So I did, but you ought to have known better, too, than to leave a nail sticking up hey, Chips?"
Jacob's comb had two massive and bejewelled rivals in the "softy hair." The front of the dress, where aching or despondent heads were wont to rest, glittered with campaign buttons of American celebrities, beginning with James G. Blaine and extending into modern history as far as Patrick Divver, Admiral Dewey, and Captain Dreyfus.
"Over yonder," said the first man surlily. "Ay, over yonder," said the other. "What for?" "Fads." "What?" "Fads. Young missus wants some o' they softy stones cut to build up in the yard, round a bit o' drain pipe, to make a puddle to keep fishes in." "Oh!" said the lad, cooling down. "Go and do it then; I'll wait till the afternoon."
"Except for a pain in my ankle, I am getting along very well, thank you," was the reply. "Say, he's all wool and a yard wide, even if he does look like a softy," declared Pete, to himself. Threading their way through the wood, the fugitives emerged, after some hard riding, upon the bare hillside.
This, he thought, was soft and he didn't want anybody to regard him as a softy. "Aw!" he said, "what's the use? We've lost the points, haven't we?" "Is that your idea of being a scout?" Don asked. Tim flushed again. For a few minutes he lounged around; then, looking ill at ease, he slouched out. "I didn't think he'd do that," Andy said thoughtfully. Don's lips had gone a little white.
When he met or passed people, it seemed to him that perhaps they were able to recognize upon him somewhere the marks of his low quality. "Softy! Ole sloppy fool!" he muttered, addressing himself. "Slushy ole mush!... Spooner!" And he added, "Yours forever, kiddo!" Convulsions seemed about to seize him. Turning a corner with his head down, he almost charged into Dora Yocum.
"I was only thinkin' what a skeer them innocent greenhorn passengers will get just ez they're snoozing off for the night, ten miles from here," responded his friend, with a chuckle. "Wonder ef anybody's goin' up from here besides that patent medicine softy." Ezekiel stopped as if petrified. "Ef the fools keep quiet they won't be hurt, for our men will be ready to chip in the moment of the attack.
That's what they are for. Well, you are a softy, Pratt Sanderson." "I guess I am," admitted the young bank clerk. "I wasn't made for such work as this." He turned away to catch his pony and did not even look at Frances. If he had, he would have seen her eyes illuminated with a radiant admiration that would almost have stunned him.
Run the pathetic stunt. Say if he keeps silent that you will be arrested, your home broken up, your family driven into the workhouse, and you yourself probably shot. Pitch it strong and rich. He is a bit of a softy from the look of him. That tender-hearted lot are always the most obstinate when asked to give away their pals."
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