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But you will have to consider it er " "Strictly confidential," said Montague. So Mr. Streeter made out the papers, and Montague, looking them over, discovered that they called for one hundred thousand dollars. "That is a mistake," he said. "I have only sixty thousand." "Oh," said the other, "we shall certainly have to charge you a ten per cent, margin."
Dick's aching muscles and Johnny's clamorous stomach had long been pleading for a rest, and the boys landed on the mound for a picnic dinner. They opened a box which Mrs. Streeter had given them as they started from her home, and found a bountiful lunch of cold venison, baked sweet potatoes, boiled eggs, bread, butter, orange marmalade and two pineapples. "Gee!" said Dick.
No living, human being, in my judgment, will ever be able to properly paint the horrors of those infernal dens. I formed the acquaintance of several Ohio soldiers whilst in prison. Among these were O. D. Streeter, of Cleveland, who went to Andersonville about the same time that I did, and escaped, and was the only man that I ever knew that escaped and reached our lines.
In the present revision, a number of important corrections, most of them based upon the original MS., have been made by Dr. E.C. Streeter, Mr. L.L. Mackall and others.
THREE months had elapsed, from the time the fugitive commenced work for Mr. Streeter, when that gentleman returned from his Southern research, and informed Jerome that Parson Wilson had sold Clotelle, and that she had been sent to the New Orleans slave-market.
At the tenement end the feminine passer-by is apt to be shawled, swarthy, down-at-the-heel, and dragging a dark-eyed, fretting baby in her wake. At the hotel end you will find her blonde of hair, velvet of boot, plumed of head-gear, and prone to have at her heels a white, woolly, pink-eyed dog. The masculine Clark Streeter? I throw up my hands.
An' nary a cent can the Hollys git now an' maybe never. Anyhow, not 'fore it's too late for this job." "But won't he wait? that man they owe it to? I should think he'd have to, if they didn't have it to pay." "Not much he will, when it's old Streeter that's got the mortgage on a good fat farm like this!" David drew his brows together perplexedly. "What is a a mortgage?" he asked.
It will be seen that the vote for Streeter, the Democratic caucus nominee, was two less than that party's strength; thus showing that two Democrats must have also voted for Chandler. It will also be seen that if every vote that was not received by Lynch had been given to Chandler or to any other man, that man would have received the required number of votes and would have been elected.
"Presence of James L. Durkin, electrical expert, essential at office of Stephens & Streeter, patent solicitors, etc., Empire Building, New York City, before contracts can be culminated. Urgent."
People eat something and die, or fall out of their boats and drown, or go out in the woods and stay till the buzzards find them. Oh, but it's the peaceful, lovely Rodgers River!" "Why, where did you hear all that, Dick?" "From Mr. Streeter. He talked a lot and I didn't forget much that he said.
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