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At last hoo said, 'Aw'll tell tho what, Robert; it's a quare-shaped 'un. It favvurs a yung mangle! Doesto think it'll be reet? 'Reet? said Robin, swipin' his ale off? 'oh, aye; it's reet enough. It's one of a new pattern, at's just com'd up. It's o' reet, Betty. Yo may see that bith hondle. 'Well, said Betty, 'if it's reet, it's reet.
"Nothing, don't I tell ye she's been swipin' a department store, and they got her dead to rights." "Who's been swipin'? What are ye talkin' about, Mike? Stop it now I've got a lot to do, and " "The woman ye put to bed that night. The one ye picked up near St. Barnabas, and brought in here and dried her off. She skipped in the mornin' without sayin' 'thank ye' why, ye must remember her! She was "
"'You act just suffocated with pleasure, says the chicken. But I don't pay no attention. "'You'll be lucky if you gets a job swipin' fur your eats when you hit New Awlins, I says to myself. 'Wouldn't you look immense with a doll on your staff? "'Now, listen, I says to her, 'how long is this here panic goin' to last? "'You can search me, she says.
It seemed to him that Jimmy missed the main point. "Didn't I tell you there was nothing doing when you wanted to take those things the other day?" Spike's face cleared. As he had suspected, Jimmy had missed the point. "Why, say, boss, yes. Sure! But dose was little, dinky t'ings. Of course, youse wouldn't stand fer swipin' chicken-feed like dem. But dese is different. Dese di'monds is boids.
"'Just like mother used to make, I says out loud, 'n' follows down a dark hall to the poolroom. "I watches the New Awlins entries chalked up 'n' I sees a hoss called Tea Kettle in the third race. Now this Tea Kettle ain't a bad pup. He's owned by a couple of wise Ikes who never let him win till the odds are right. Eddie Murphy has this hoss 'n' Duckfoot Johnson's swipin' him.
"Wait till I get the makin's 'n' I'll tell you," he said, as he got up and entered a stall. "One winter I'm swipin' fur Jameson," he began, when he returned with tobacco and papers. "We ships to New Awlins early that fall. We have twelve dogs half of 'em hop-heads 'n' the other half dinks. "In them days I ain't much bigger 'n a peanut, but I sure thinks I'm a clever guy.
Each was afraid of the other; but for the big, gloomy man before them they had vast respect. "What be ye goin' to steal, Lon? Tell us before we say we'll help." "Kids," muttered Lon moodily. "Live kids?" asked Eli, in great surprise. "Yep, live ones. What do I want with dead ones? Will ye help?" "Can't see no good a swipin' kids. What do ye want with 'em?"
Richard Croker 's in the ring, and the 'bookies' are swipin' it off the boards. Hurry and get in with your money while there 's a chance to get the odds;" and he started into the betting ring as though fully expecting I would follow. His manner was intensely earnest, and his hurried words and furtive looks were at once impressive and convincing.
Neither of us belongs to his detail. He don't know us from a side o' sole-leather. What's the matter with drivin' the wagon right up to camp, and swipin' the whole business, horses, wagon and all?" "I hain't been in the army as long as you have, Shorty," said Si doubtfully. "I've made some progress in petty larceny, as you know, but I ain't yit quite up to stealin' a span o' horses and a wagon.
When the youth in the checked cap gave him the come-back though it was clear enough. "Aw, shut up, you big stiff!" says he. "You're lucky to get cold chicken and bread and jam. Where do you think I'm goin' to get hot coffee for you, anyway? Ain't I runnin' a chance as it is, swipin' this out of the ice-box after the servants leave? It's more'n you deserve, you crook." More grumbles from inside.
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