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It's always struck me as being queer, that, because, say, look at the slick way he rides and ropes! He's never picked that up in five years over on this Side and that's all he claims he's been in Canada." "Besides" chimed in Redmond, eagerly, "that yarn of his about that hobo swiping his dough, Sergeant! 'Frame-up, p'raps, . . . gave it to him and told him to beat it? . . ."
If they offered Tim a broiled foot or a stewed hand he'd go for his gun." Briefly Tucu spoke. The Mayorunas separated and went into the forest, seeking any sign of other enemies. "Queer that this chap should come here alone if he was alone," added Knowlton. "Suppose he's the fellow that's been swiping stray girls? Or a spy?" "Neither, I think, senhor.
He hired an automobile down at Windy Creek to bring them up to the house and the man was going to come back for them tomorrow morning. I didn't let on the ghost was a fake, because I thought he'd be so disappointed to have all his trouble for nothing, and he'd be mad at me for swiping his skull. I told him a paper lady was coming and then I went back to the woods.
It was beginning to look as if this might go on for ever, when Ellerby, who had been missing the stumps by fractions of an inch, for the last ten minutes, did what Burgess had failed to do. He bowled a straight, medium-paced yorker, and de Freece, swiping at it with a bright smile, found his leg-stump knocked back. He had made twenty-eight.
Oh, yes, I prayed all right, but I searched, too. And there it was. What I said to that woman I don't know even now. I flew out through the hall and down the steps and And there Kitty Wilson corralled me. "Say, where's that stick-pin?" she cried. "Here! here, you darling!" I said, pressing it into her hand. "And, Kitty, whenever you feel like swiping another purse just don't do it. It doesn't pay.
Heenan and Sayers was only a bloody fool to it. Handed him the father and mother of a beating. See the little kipper not up to his navel and the big fellow swiping. God, he gave him one last puck in the wind, Queensberry rules and all, made him puke what he never ate. It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
Before Neewa could give the nest a second tug they were piling out of it in a cloud and suddenly a wild yell of agony rose out of Miki. Ahmoo himself had landed on the end of the dog's nose. Neewa made no sound, but stood for a moment swiping at his face with both paws, while Miki, still yelling, ran the end of his crucified nose into the ground.
But the gambling business, says he, 'from the profitable side of the table is a good compromise between swiping silver spoons and selling penwipers at a Waldorf-Astoria charity bazar. "'Then, says I, 'Mr. Bassett, you don't care to talk over my little business proposition? "'Why, says he, 'do you know, you can't get a Pasteur institute to start up within fifty miles of where I live.
What he said was this: "They are swiping my dust!"
Well then, upon that day in Lombardy Alfred and Charlemagne and the Kaliph were met to take a trial of their blades. Alfred took a pig of lead which he had brought from the Mendip Hills, and swiping the air once or twice in the Western fashion, he cut through that lead and girded the edge of his sword upon the rock beneath, making a little dent.
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