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Updated: June 8, 2025
"That's the way I had doped it out up there in the pen that I was goin' straight. That's all, isn't it? I told Slimmy I was through but Slimmy held something over me that was good for twenty years. What could I do? I said I'd come in on this, figurin' that I could queer the game by stallin'. I I tried it. If you were here, you saw me. I pretended that I couldn't open the safe, and "
I don't do any stallin' around, same as these low brow labor gangs. I pitches right in earnest and impetuous, makin' the dirt fly. Why, I had the busy little bee lookin' like he was loafin' on a government contract. I was just about gettin' my second wind and was puttin' in some heavy licks when I hears somebody tootin' a motor horn out in the road.
What's your excuse to-night?" "Excuse for what?" Jim crossed slowly to Barker. "The cook tent was started half an hour late, and the side show top ain't loaded yet." "Your wagons is on the bum, that's what! Number thirty-eight carries the cook tent and the blacksmith has been tinkering with it all day. Ask HIM what shape it's in." "You're always stallin'," was Barker's sullen complaint.
Dago Jim's voice roared out, hoarse, blasphemous, in drunken rage: "De Gray Seal see! Youse betcher life I knows! I been waitin' fer somet'ing like dis, damn youse! Youse been stallin' on me fer a year every time it came to a divvy. Youse've got a pocketful now youse snitched to-night dat youse are tryin' to do me out of. Well, keep 'em" he shoved his face forward. "I keeps dis see!
You may tell her that I will No, I'll 'phone her myself. Where is she?" And all the stallin' around I could do didn't jar him away from that idea. He seems to have forgotten all about this Mabel person who was going to sing. He wanted to call up Louise right away. And he did. So I don't have any chesty bulletin to hand Mr. Robert when I gets back. "Well?" says he.
Well, son, what have you to offer?" "Me?" says I, stallin' around a bit and lookin' surprised. "Oh, I didn't know I'd been assigned to the case of the mysterious golf ball." "You have," says Old Hickory. "You seem to be so clever in deducing things and the rest of us so stupid. Here take another look at the ball.
They were still talking, "stallin' along" as Porky said afterwards, when a group of people came out of the inner office. Colonel Bright led the way, his daughter on his arm. "Yes, indeed," he was saying to the doctor, "she will be all right now. It was a wonderfully narrow escape for both of them. Do all you can for Captain DuChassis. I'm sorry you won't let me take him home with me to-night.
Just keep stallin' around when you get in the stand, 'n' act like you don't know the war's over. "'Furget it, I says. 'I'll show those big stiffs where to head in. I'll hypnotize the old owls. I'll give 'em a song 'n' dance that's right! "As I goes up the steps I see the judges settin' in their chairs, 'n' I takes off my hat.
And then before he'd roll off the ash cans he'd lean his elbows on the safety bar and stare mournful up and down Broadway for a spell, just stallin' around. Course, I got to kiddin' him, askin' what he found so comic in the boiler-room and why he didn't let me in on the joke. "Huh!" he'd grunt. "If there's any joke down there, young feller, I'm it.
"'Cut out the stallin', he says. 'It don't go between friends. Would you like to git a-holt of a new roll? "'I don't mind tellin' you that sooner 'n have my clothes tore I lets somebody crowd a bundle of kale on to me, I says. "'That sounds better, he says. 'Come on we'll take a cab ride. "'Where we goin'? I asks him, as we gets into a cab. "'Goin' to look at a hoss, he says.
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