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Updated: June 21, 2025
"If it hadn't been for you!" "That's my aim in life," says I "to prove I'm needed in the fam'ly." I expect you'll admit that when Mr. Robert slides out at 11 A.M. and don't show up again until after three he's stretchin' the lunch hour a bit. But, whatever other failin's I may have, I believe in bein' easy with the boss.
"There does seem to be something of an elevation in the center. Let's run in as close as we can, Verona." By this time we were all grouped in the bow, stretchin' our necks and gazin' interested. "The mound!" suddenly sings out Rupert, pointin' excited. "The treasure mound! I told you I'd find it." "Huh!" says Old Hickory.
The water swept me off my feet, and when I thought it was all up with me, Pete seized me in his strong arms. A block of ice caught us and drove us to the shore, crushing Pete as it did so. Oh, it was fearful! We were face to face with death." "An' Bill went down?" "That was Pritchen, was it?" "Yes." "What were you doing to him?" "Stretchin' his neck." "I thought so. Did he confess?"
"Who was that tall chap I see'd 'ee in talk with, up by th' Peak?" asked Un' Benny Rowett later in the day. "A Cap'n Something-or-other," answered Seth; "I didn't catch his full name." "Walked over from Troy, I s'pose? Queer how these ship-cap'ns enjoy stretchin' their legs after a passage the furriners especially. But there! 'tis nat'ral." "He wasn' a ship-cap'n."
He'd been shown into the private office on a call for Mr. Robert; but as I was well heeled with work of my own I didn't even glance up from the desk until I hears this scrappy openin' of his. "Bob Ellins, you young scoundrel, what the blighted beatitudes does this mean!" he demands. Naturally that gets me stretchin' my neck, and I turns just in time to watch the gaspy expression on Mr.
We strings out for more'n a block. You'd think New Yorkers were so used to parades by this time that you couldn't get 'em stretchin' their necks for anything less'n a regiment of hand-picked heroes. They've seen the French Blue Devils at close range, gawped at the Belgians, and chummed with the Anzacs. But, say, this spool-pushin' stunt was a new one on 'em. Folks just lined the curb and stared.
"Kinder like old times, ain't it? Lord, Rosey," he continued, stopping and following up the reminiscence, with the end of the rope in his hand as if it were a clue, "don't ye mind that day we started outer Livermore Pass, and seed the hull o' the Californy coast stretchin' yonder eh? But don't ye be skeered, Rosey dear," he added quickly, as if in recognition of the alarm expressed in her face.
She thinks we don't count, us fellows on the works, and Lamb's no better, only he's more sneakin' he hasn't her gall." He searched the deputy's face for a moment then cried pitifully, "You don't believe me, Dan. You think I'm sore about something and stretchin' the truth. It's so, Dan I tell you they left me here the night I was brought in until the next forenoon without touchin' my arm.
"I never thought of the sealskin stretchin', but she sure would. You're fine at thinkin' things out, Andy!" said David admiringly. "The spruce roots won't stretch though. 'Tis a fine way to fix un now, and she'll work. There's no doubtin' she'll work." "'Twill take all day," Andy calculated, adding with pride, "but once we gets un on they'll hold. I'll get the roots now and put un to soak."
I bought her such a pretty red cloak, all lined wid white silk, an' wrapped her in it, an' took her on to de boat, an' left her thar, she thinkin' I was comin' back, an' the last I seen of her, as the boat moved off, she was jumpin' up an' down, an' stretchin' her arms to me, an' the Cunnel holdin' her tight, or I b'lieve she'd sprung overboard. He'd a good time gettin' her home, I reckon.
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