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Besides, I hadn't made up my mind just how I was goin' to turn down his proposition. I towed him in, though. He was glancin' around the room approvin', and makin' a few openin' remarks, when the folks come strollin' out from the dinin'-room. I glances up, and sees Mr. Ballard just as he's about to pass the door. So does Dorsett.
Just a-strollin'," Saltman answered, "just a-strollin'. Weather's fine, ain't it?" "Huh!" Shorty jeered. "If you call that strollin', what might you walk real fast at?" When Shorty fed the dogs that evening, he was keenly conscious that from the encircling darkness a dozen pairs of eyes were boring in upon him.
He's in such a hurry to get away that he bumps into Mr. Robert, who's just strollin' toward the private office, and the famous bindings, art masterpieces, contents pages and so on are scattered all over the floor. "Who was our young friend with all the literature?" asks Mr. Robert. "That's Mr. Schott," says I, "your wizard of the dotted line, who was due to break in on Mr.
"Well, s'posin' when you'd walked four miles to set up with her, and thought you had her all to yourself, s'pose this Snyder County teacher with red whiskers, and little twinklin' eyes, and new clothes, come strollin' in, and stretched out in a chair like he owned her, and begin tellin' about all the countries he'd seen about England and Rome, Injy and Africa and she leaned for'a'd and looked up into his eyes and just listened to him talk, drank it all in like s'pose all that, and then s'pose "
"The Dook" was the sobriquet of the person he had come to see; and it was by this name that Nick inquired for him, gravely, of the landlord. The man addressed chuckled. "I guess he's gone over to Meek's to try and borrow some cash off his dear country-man. I seen him strollin' down that way. Hope Meek'll fork out. The Dook owes me two weeks' board, and I've give him notice to pay up or quit.
I'd loaded him into an elevator and was strollin' through the waitin'-room, when Old Hickory comes paddin' out as slinky as a man of his weight can. "Young man," says he, "where is that Captain person?" "About the tenth floor by now, sir," says I. "Bring him back," says Mr. Ellins, sharp and snappy. "Through the private entrance. Understand?"
For a considerable of a spell, he was a strollin' preacher, but it didn't pay in the long run.
Niggers had good times in mos' ways in slav'ry time. July 4th, we would wash up an' have a good time. We hallowed dat day wid de white folks. Dere was a barbecue; big table set down in bottoms. Dere was niggers strollin' 'roun' like ants. We was havin' a time now. White folks too.
Annyways, me an' this gyurrl that I loved that I forget the name iv, was strollin' wan night be moonlight, d'ye see me, now? And we come to where there was a stump risin' maybe two fut clear iv th' ground ye'll wonder what th' stump had to do wid ut, but listen and I stopped and put me arrm around her waist or tried to; for a fine circumferenshus waist she had.
And take it from me, there ain't any game like it, pilin' out of your berth at a new pitch every mornin', breakfast in the mess car on the sidin', strollin' out to the grounds and watchin' the pegs sunk, drivin' around town to take a glance at the paper display, formin' on for the parade, sizin' up the sidewalk crowds, and a couple of hours later seein' 'em collectin' from all sides around the big top; then at night, when you've had two big houses, to check up the receipts and figure out how much you are to the good.
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