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"Yes and I wish I did. Maybe I could help if I am only a boy." "Well, we'll have to go slowly, William; it won't do to intrude on a man's private affairs." "That's what Jimmy Duggan said when he laid out the burglar what was crackin' his safe in the coal yard office; only this is diff'rent; nobody ain't swipin' Tommy's money.
I might crib some more if I could. Every time I steals up to yer house, I thinks yer woman'll see me; and yer Pappy and Mammy comes home to-morry." Teola nodded. "If yer Pappy catched me swipin' milk, he'd knock the head offen me. I steals it just the same.... I air afraid of yer Pappy, though." "No wonder," replied Teola, and she lapsed into silence.
"As if a fella couldn't stop swipin' things if he wanted to!" he said to himself. As he went on he passed a fruit stand where a man was buying some bananas. In putting his change into his pocket he dropped a nickel, which rolled toward Tode who promptly set his foot on it, and then pretending to pull a rag off his torn trousers, he picked up the coin and went on chuckling over his "luck."
"Old Windbag there don't see any show for swipin' the collection, with Scotchie round," said Hi, with a following ripple of quiet laughter, for Williams' reputation was none too secure. Robbie was in a most uncomfortable state of mind. So unusually stirred was he that for the first time in his history he made a motion. "I move we adjourn, Mr.
Well, old Streeter said it had got ter come down. I reckon he suspected it of swipin' some of the sunshine, or maybe a little rain that belonged ter the tree t'other side of the road what did bear fruit an' was worth somethin'! Anyhow, he got his man an' his axe, an' was plum ready ter start in when he sees David an' David sees him. "'T was when the boy first come.
The boy glanced at her coolly. "What ye want ter hide for? Been swipin' somethin'?" he questioned, carelessly. The girl flashed at him an indignant glance, then cast a quick, frightened one behind her. "No, no!" she exclaimed, earnestly. "I'm no thief. I'm running away from old Mary Leary.
Then he added, "For God's sake, you little fool, he ain't been swipin' anything from you, has he?" Then the barber arose to the situation. He advanced, razor in hand. He strode up to the milkman and stood dramatically before him, arm raised and head thrown back.
"Oh, pshaw! major, pshaw!" said Captain Pharo, with deep returning gloom; "seven dollars a week ain't nothin' to the pleasure she'd take, arfter she'd once got spliced onto ye, in houndin' on ye, an' pesterin' ye, an' swipin' the 'arth with ye."
Billy and Saxon, their packs upon the backs, trudged along a hundred yards. He was the first to break silence. "An' I tell you another thing, Saxon. We'll never be goin' around smellin' out an' swipin' bits of soil an' carryin' it up a hill in a basket. The United States is big yet. I don't care what Benson or any of 'em says, the United States ain't played out.
The boy stood staring miserably at the wall with eyes in which fear and hurt pride struggled for mastery. "Yer Honor!" the policeman broke in. "It's three times lately I've found him sleepin' in doorways after midnight. Him and the gang is a bad lot, yer Honor, a scrappin' an' hoppin' freights an' swipin' junk, an' one thing an' another."
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