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Come out of that and hunt burglars like a good little cop." "But who am I," pleaded the little man, "to gaze unblinded upon the sun?" "That," said the lady, smothering a giggle, "will be about all from you. Get up or I'll call in a sure-enough cop to search your title to that uniform." Hastily P. Sybarite withdrew his head and rose.
A lone highwayman has held up and robbed a populous passenger train in Texas in West Texas, the rendezvous of the sure-enough bad man, who catches catamounts and clips their claws, who defies whole barrels o' Jersey lightning and uses the bucking-broncho for his laughter, yea, his sport!
Read them through, and perhaps some day, if fortune is kinder to you than ever it was to your father, with a background behind you and a vision before you, you may be inspired to sit down and write a dime novel of your own almost good enough to be worthy of mention in the same breath with the two greatest adventure stories dollar-sized dime novels is what they really are that ever were written; written, both of them, by sure-enough writing men, who, I'm sure, must have based their moods and their modes upon the memories of the dime novels which they, they in their turn, read when they were boys of your age.
"My house of cards has come tumbling down about my ears, until I think it must be a dreadful dream." "To be transported to a sure-enough throne is certainly dreamlike," I said, arranging the cushions in a chair. "But I hardly think you'll find anything dreadful about it." "You don't?" she asked pointedly. "No," I answered. "The dreadful part's for me."
If she get t'rough it she 's a sure-enough goner, I tell you dat. Her anchors vaire light, only good for mud. I tell ze boys get more heavy anchors, but dey laugh. Some day be sorry, for sure." One of the sloops to leeward raised a patch of sail and began the terrible struggle out of the jaws of destruction and death.
Instinctively she had counted on rousing Barney's jealousy in order to throw him off the track of her real thoughts. She succeeded. "I can tell you what you're going to do!" Barney flung at her with fierce mastery. "You're not going to put over a sure-enough marriage with any Dick Sherwood! When there's that kind of a marriage, I'm going to be the man!
More than one-quarter of the time Uncle Pete knew what he was talkin' about, too, and the rest of it he was too happy to care. Mehitabel was a sure-enough genius: she could make a domestic difficulty out of a shoestring, she could draw a fambly jar through a hole in a sock, and she could bring on civil war over the question of whether there was anything to quar'l about,
"Keep away from me, you common cow-hands," said Sponsilier, as a group of us waited for him at the foot of the court-house stairs. But Dave's gravity soon turned to a smile as he continued: "Did you fellows notice The Rebel and me sitting inside the rail among all the big augers? Paul, was it a dream, or did we sleep in a bed last night and have a sure-enough pillow under our heads?
All this time Joel was worried. It seemed a Sin and a Shame for an Old Man to go around spending his own Money. The Residenter had so much Fun during his Second Time on Earth that he decided to make it a sure-enough Renaissance, so he married a Type-Writer 19 years old, that he met in a Hotel Lobby, and then Joel did go up in the Air.
Bunner added reflectively, "but that doesn't mean genuine, sure-enough craziness; it just means some personal eccentricity in a man ... like hating cats ... or my own weakness of not being able to touch any kind of fish-food." "Well, what was Manderson's?" "He was full of them the old man.
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