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Updated: June 23, 2025
"If he told you to do something this Jake Houck you wouldn't think it was so free," the girl retorted without any life in her voice. He jumped up, laughing. "Well, I don't expect he's liable to tell me to do anything. He ain't ever met up with me. I gotta go peel the spuds for supper. Don't you worry, June. He's bluffin'." "I reckon," she said, and nodded a careless good-bye.
I'll be quite happy to split a dish of spuds with you if so be your garden offers them up; but I'm not going to have you casualtied rescuing your perishing radishes under fire.
I hope that we are going soon, Monsieur de Caulaincourt, for our men will all settle down as gardeners if this continues. They are learning more about watering-pots and spuds than about horses and sabres. 'The army, I hear, is to embark to-morrow. 'Yes, yes, but you know very well that they will disembark again upon the wrong side of the Channel.
"Here are your spuds," announced Corporal Sandercock, "with the Commandin' Officer's compliments." He paused, seemingly in wrestle with an inward reluctance. He plunged his right hand into his breeches pocket.
He thought of several of his college companions, sons of rich men, who knew not what it was to fight in order to win their way, and who were now occupying important positions in life. He knew what they would say about him now. "Poor Spuds," would be their laconic comment. "He was always an odd one, anyway." Yes, that was the way they would talk, and then dismiss him from their minds.
He never told his name. He was travelling impromptu, like kings, I guess. The first time at supper I says to him: 'Have some more of the spuds, Mr. Frelinghuysen. 'Oh, don't be so formal and offish, Eighteen, says he. 'Call me Hal that's short for halberdier. 'Oh, don't think I wanted to pry for names, says I. 'I know all about the dizzy fall from wealth and greatness.
She feared lest Jasper's name should be mentioned in connection with the affair, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it did not appear. The article merely said that a certain person was suspected and that the detectives were working on the case. "I'm afraid Spuds is in hot water," Dick remarked, as they all sat down to dinner. "What makes you think that?"
"Lor', it ain't much to holler about!" exclaimed the fastidious Larrikins, on Mick rubbing his hands at seeing those appetising viands; while `Ugly' cried out joyously, on noticing his mealy mass of potatoes, "Them's the raal jockeys fur I," thus paraphrasing the remark of a once celebrated millionaire possessed of much lucre but boasting of little conversational power, when at a state banquet, "Why, we only calls this aboard `two spuds and a Jonah!"
There were no altercations, only laughter and the crude repartee of such a gathering. The first speaker having returned to his seat and sanity, the second took his place. "Hullo, Tomatoes! What's the price of onions and spuds?" "Now begin and tell the ladies how intelligent they are, so you'll get their vote."
How I used to hate that camp band, when it played at reveille, I cursed it in full BLAST because it would wake me suddenly when I seemed to have only just lain down, and reviled it when it played softly because I would not hear it and some of the other boys would wake me only when they were fully dressed; and the last to fall in at roll-call were picked for cook's fatigue peeling spuds and cleaning dixies!
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