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"This doll?" asked Fuzzy, touching Betsy with his forefinger to be sure that she was the one referred to. Why, this doll was presented to me by the Emperor of Beloochistan. I have seven hundred others in my country home in Newport. This doll " "Cheese the funny business," said Riley. "You swiped it or picked it up at de house on de hill where but never mind dat.
At a military church service during the South African War some recruits were listening to the chaplain in church saying, "Let them slay the Boers as Joshua smote the Egyptians," when a recruit whispered to a companion: "Say, Bill, the old bloke is a bit off; doesn't he know it was Kitchener who swiped the Egyptians?"
"And I'm going to tell him we know he never swiped those bonds, and you stuck up for him when old man Carmody told you he did." The last words of the boy's remarks were addressed to an empty chair, for the girl, white and trembling, had fled into the other room and banged the door after her. Mrs.
"I'm just as certain as I am that I'm lying here that the fellow we saw in the dining-hall was the fellow who swiped your suit-case!" "Oh, forget that," said Steve disgustedly. "Common-sense ought to tell you that a sneak thief you saw in New York wouldn't be having his supper here at Brimfield!" "He was, though," replied the other stubbornly. "Oh, run away!
Jack and his menagerie went on playing and dancing, but Jack could not get the third laugh out of the king's daughter, and the poor fellow saw his big head in danger of going on the spike. Then the brave Mouse came to Jack's help and wheeled round upon its heel, and at it did so its tail swiped into the Bum-clock's mouth, and the Bum-clock began to cough and cough and cough.
The last touch was supplied by Savoy in the shape of a monkey on a yellow stick, that was not in the official bill of lading. "I swiped it fer de Kid," he said briefly in explanation. When it was all done the boys turned in, but not to sleep. It was long past midnight before the deep and regular breathing from the beds proclaimed that the last had succumbed.
Each of them carried on his shoulder the hind-quarter of a cow that had been killed by a shell at a nearby farm, and the dripping blood from the beast had slopped all over their uniforms; under each arm was tucked a ham they had "swiped" from the farmhouse and each had a young suckling pig running ahead, squealing and grunting, tied by a string on the hind leg and held by the left hand, while in the right hand each man carried a sharply pointed stick to prod the pig when it veered from a straight line, which was about every other step or so.
I paid Roth for that gun I swiped " "You steal the gun?" "Well, it wa'n't jest stealin' it. Roth he never paid me no wages, so when I lit out I took her along and writ him it was for wages." "Then why did you pay him?" Pete frowned. "I dunno." Montoya nodded. He stooped and fumbled in a pack. Pete wondered what the old man was hunting for.
Tell me the whole thing, Tom." And so, sitting there with this shrewd man who had befriended him, Tom told the whole story as he could not have told it to anyone else. He went away back into the old Barrel Alley days, when he had "swiped" apples from Adolf Schmitt and his brother Bill had worked in Schmitt's grocery store.
"You are requested to keep your doors locked when you are out of your rooms," the announcement concluded. There was a buzz of excitement as the students filed out. "What does it mean?" "Who lost anything?" "I have," said one. "My new sapphire cuff buttons were swiped." "I lost a ring," added another.
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