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He was at the taking of Quebec, and he learned the use of the sword from good masters. He's taught me all the tricks." "Maybe, then," said Sol laughing, "you'll have to fight Alvarez with one o' them stickers. Ef sech a combat is on it'll fall to you, Paul. The rest of us are handier with rifle an' knife." "It's never likely to happen," said Paul.
The first season they turned out a lot of stickers, and when they got short Max goes himself to old man Baum and gets him to lend them boys a thousand dollars. People don't forget such things in a hurry, Abe." "Don't they, Mawruss?" Abe rejoined.
Then I set my lips on his, and held them there a second, trying my level best to give him her very kiss, but of course I could only try. "Oh, Laddie," I cried. "Her eyes were like when stars shine down in our well! Her cheeks were like mother's damask roses! She smelled like flowers, and when her lips touched mine little stickers went all over me!"
They voted for you, and their votes were thrown out." "For me?" "Yes, Madame Beattie told them to. She'd planned it before she went away, but somehow it fell through. They were to put stickers on the ballot, but at the last the stickers scared them, and they just wrote in your name." "Lydia," said Jeff, "you're making this up." "Oh, no, I'm not," said Lydia. "Mr. Choate told me.
So, before you could fan yourself with a feather, the porcupine took out one of his stickers, and he stuck the wasp with it so hard that the bad wasp was glad enough to fly away, taking his stinger with him. "Now, it's your turn!" cried the porcupine to the fox, and with that he threw a whole lot of his sharp quills at the fox, and that bad creature ran away howling.
Abe remained silent. "It'll look big, anyhow," Morris continued. "Look big!" Abe exclaimed. "It is big. It's three thousand dollars." "Well, you can't reckon stickers by what they cost," Morris explained. "It's what they'll sell for." "You're right, Mawruss," Abe commented bitterly. "And that house wouldn't sell for Confederate money. I'll see Louis Mintz to-night."
There are plants called cockle-burs whose seed-pods are provided with stickers in every direction, so that anything brushing against them is sure to pick them up. At the end of each sticker is a very tiny hook, and these hooks fasten themselves tightly into anything that brushes against it, animal wool, hair, or clothing, etc.
"For if you come out I'll eat you!" "Don't let him scare you," said the briar berry bush to Uncle Wiggily, "I'll fix him," so the berry bush reached out a long arm all covered with stickers, and she stickered and prickered the wushky-woshky on his three heads and two tails and one leg, so that the savage creature ran away howling, and Uncle Wiggily was safe, and not hurt a bit, I'm glad to say.
Said she always heard tell them cactus apples wuz good eatin'. I propped her mouth open with a glove so she couldn't bite none, and I picked cactus stickers till I wuz plumb weary." "Yeh, women is funny that way," philosophized the listener. "They do say Eve et an apple when she shouldn't ought to had."
Gregg ended the inning by striking out. "Get at the Rube!" boomed Ellis, the Bison captain. "We'll have him up in the air soon. Get in the game now, you stickers!" Before I knew what had happened, the Bisons had again tied the score. They were indomitable. They grew stronger all the time. A stroke of good luck now would clinch the game for them.
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