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Updated: July 16, 2025
As Senator Sporty Jones stood on the Sawyerville platform and watched No. 14 vanishing round a curve, his rage against the Superintendent cooled somewhat and hardened into a determination to make somebody pay. The more he thought of it the clearer it grew that the "somebody" should be a bigger man than McDowell, though Sporty meant to get even with him, too, some day.
She had chosen dark blue for the one and hunter's green for the other. "Won't you girls ever take an interest in your clothes?" she asked, wonderingly. She couldn't believe they were quite as indifferent to the charming pictures they made in the very becoming hats and sporty topcoats as they pretended. "Poor, darling mother, we are interested," Lois protested, "but we're " "Fussed."
Laramie in the meantime had joined a group of men at the upper end of the bar in the billiard hall McAlpin, Joe Kitchen's barn boss; Henry Sawdy, the big sporty stock buyer of the town, and the profane but always dependable druggist and railroad surgeon, Doctor Carpy. With one of these, Sawdy, Harry Tenison from behind the bar was talking.
It's only you 'ain't got the stuff in you to stand up under a five-hundred-dollar windfall and a and a sporty girl. If if two glasses of beer make you as silly as they do, Jimmie, why, five hundred dollars would land you under the table for life." "Aw-there you go again!" "I can't help it, Jimmie. It's because I never knew a fellow had what's he's cut out for written all over him so.
And so it was that when messages came pouring in upon him from bosses and chairmen and advisers urging immediate interference in the M. & T. fight, when the sheriff of Malden County sent in an hysterical report, all instigated by the pungent advices from mad and muddy Senator Sporty Jones the Governor inclined his ear.
"How gamey those fish are!" observed Mr. Fernald reminiscently. "And bass are sporty, too." "I'd rather fish for bass than anything else!" asserted Ted. "Ever tried landlocked salmon?" "N o. We didn't get those." "That's what you get in Maine and New Brunswick," explained Mr. Fernald. "I don't know, though, that they are any more fun to land than a good, spirited bass.
Course I wa'n't sure she knew me at that distance, or had heard what I said; but trust her for doin' the right thing at the right time! "There's Mother!" I hears my sporty friend roar out. "I say! Mother! It's Billy, you know." No doubt about Mother's catchin' on. Maybe she'd suspicioned, anyway; but the last I saw of her she was slumpin' into the arms of a white-haired old gent behind her.
The wash was that of a man, rather sporty striped shirts and socks of many colors. "Mighty late to be having the wash still hanging out," said Josie to herself. "Having trouble with servants, I wager. Hope so, anyhow." As she started to cross the alley the honk of a horn warned her of the approach of an automobile. She stepped back and a big touring car turned into the alley. Josie looked up.
"But, Gee whiz!" exclaimed M'Ginnis, tightening his grasp, "you sure are some class, Kid, in that stiff collar an' sporty tie. How's the stock market? Are ye a bull or a bear?" "Ah, cut it out, Bud!" cried the lad, writhing. "Right-o, Kid, right-o!" said M'Ginnis, loosing his hold. "You're comin' over t' O'Rourke's t'night, of course?" "Why, no, Bud I can't."
And then there rose before him the leering face of a keeper of a second-hand book store in Cleveland who some weeks before had pushed across the counter to him a paper-covered copy of "Nana's Brother," saying with a smirk, "That's some sporty stuff." And he wondered what he should have thought had he bought the book to feed the imagination the bookseller's comment was intended to arouse.
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