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Can't suffer fools, no road." "Well, I don't want to be shovin' in my jor, but I'd take him to be more rogue than fool," suggested Bum. "Time he was thinkin' about repentin', anyhow," observed Dixon. "Now, really Thompson do you believe in these special malisons?" asked Willoughby, as Price rejoined the company. "Are you so superstitious? I should n't have thought it."
I've done my bit." The sergeant moved on without another word, and the other man likewise went his way, with just the merest suggestion of a limp. And simultaneously the great doors of the bank swung open. Thompson looked first after one man then after the other, and passed into the bank with a thoughtful look on his face. He finished his business there.
Why," continued he, "there is your best man, Thompson; I'd lay a demi-John of old Jamaica rum that he is a true-blooded Yankee, and if he was to speak his mind, would sooner fight under the stripes than the union." "Damn the dog that says yon of Jock Thompson," replied the Caledonian, who stood by. "I never deserted my colours yet, and I don't think I ever shall.
"I am very sorry that Thompson, my manager, is away to-day," Mr. Brook said as they alighted. "Had I known you were coming I would of course have had him in readiness to go round with you. Is Williams, the underground manager, in the pit?" he asked the bankman, whose duty it was to look after the ascending and descending cage. "No, sir; he came up about half an hour ago.
"Now, Childers," Thompson said, "don't you hit at a ball. You're safe to be bowled or caught if you do. Just lift your bat, and block them each time. Now, Frank, it's your turn to score. Put them on as fast as you can. It's no use playing carefully any longer." Frank set to to hit in earnest.
The crop of the year before, though half the apples were stung, had brought nearly $300. This precaution, especially in the case of dead limbs, is important, for most dead wood in young trees is due to disease, often infectious, and should be burned at once. This was done by Johnson and Anderson late in the month. Thompson had gone for the cows.
"I am a teetotaller," said second officer Thompson when he had made a brief report to the captain of the Castle, "but if anyone will stand me a whiskey and soda I shall be obliged to him."
There was no school, for it was Saturday, and staying in the house was no great fun. Janet wanted her brother to stay and play with her and she knew she must do something to make him. For a while he had been content to play that he was Dr. Thompson, come to give medicine to Jan's sick doll.
"Ready, then! Shake hands!" "I won't," replied Dick, sturdily, ere Fred could speak. The latter, though he, too, would have refused, went white with rage. "Take your places, then," directed Thompson, briskly. "Ready! Time!" Fred Ripley put up a really splendid guard as he advanced warily upon the freshman. Dick's guard, at the outset, was not as good.
The Chair will appoint as committee to get a move on, Mr. Stephen Thompson of Montana; the earnest Shakespearian student, Mr. Thompson-Stephen; Mr. Wildcat Thompson of New Mexico; and myself. Having no further use for a sucker or a quitter, the other two gentlemen may go to the devil, and I hereby stand adjourned." So saying, he gathered up his resources and departed.
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