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"You said that tip-top," said Dab, the moment they were on the sidewalk; "but I can't guess what she means. Ham Morris made all the bargain for you when he settled for me. S'pose it's all right, though." "Course it is. I's got to work out half my board a-doin' chores. Jes' wot I's been used to all my life."
One winter's day in San Francisco my friend Halley, an enthusiastic shot who had killed bears in India, came to me and said, "Let's go south. I'm tired of towns. Let's go south and have some real tip-top shooting." In the matter of sport, California in those days thirty years ago differed widely from the California of to-day.
Perhaps he fancied that the wide-swaying stem to which he clung was the mast of a ship; that the tossing forest behind him was the heaving waves of the sea; and that the wind which moaned over the woods and murmured in the leaves, and now and then sent him a wide circuit in the air, as if he had been a blackbird on the tip-top of a spruce, was an ocean gale.
He was surprised to hear of Frank's intended removal from the lodging-house. "I say, Frank," he said, "you're gettin' on fast. Here you are, goin' to live in a tip-top house up-town. You'll be a reg'lar swell." "I hope not, Dick. I don't like swells very much." "You won't notice your old friends bimeby." "That shows you don't know me, Dick. I shall be glad to notice you whenever we meet."
You can tie up here too," entering the tent, "if you want to." Frank gladly accepted the proposition. "How odd it must seem," he said, "to live and sleep under canvas!" "You'll like it tip-top, when you get used to it," remarked Jack, with an air of old experience. Frank made haste to take off his civil suit and put on his soldier clothes.
What race movement in the first place sent these races perching their wonderful tier-on-tier houses literally on the tip-top of the world?
"How do you like baching it?" "Oh, don't mention it!" entreated Rob, mauling the dough again. "Come in an' sit down. Why in thunder y' standin' out there for?" "Oh, I'd rather be where I can see the prairie. Great weather!" "Im-mense!" "How goes breaking?" "Tip-top! A leette dry now; but the bulls pull the plow through two acres a day. How's things in Boomtown?" "Oh, same old grind."
Clair is smart, isn't she?" "She thinks she is," answered another speaker; "she believes she's at the tip-top of creation; but she never had such a pretty dress on as that in her days; and she knows it and she don't like it. It's real fun to see St. Clair beat; she thinks she is so much better than other girls, and she has such a way of twisting that upper lip of hers. Do you know how St.
"Tip-top," said Dick. "Who did you see?" "Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell, and two children, Johnny, the one I fished out of the water, and his sister, Grace. Johnny's a jolly little chap, and his sister is a nice girl." "Halloa, what's that?" asked Fosdick, suddenly espying the watch-chain. "What do you think of my new watch?" asked Dick, drawing it out. "Do you mean to say it is yours?" "Yes. Mrs.
He saw him in his mind's eye, a collegian, a Parliament man, a Baronet, perhaps. The old man thought he would die contented if he could see his grandson in a fair way to such honours. He would have none but a tip-top college man to educate him none of your quacks and pretenders no, no.
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