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Quit yer kiddin'. Me name is Lippe and mebbe I shoot it off a bit too frequent now and then, but you don't need to be afeered o' me peachin' to de udder'Bos." "I'm not afraid of that," continued Ned. "We don't care what you tell all the tramps this side of Kansas City. But we don't want you to print anything more about us in the Comet." Hardly a flush came on the tramp's face.
Whack! clatter! plug! Four high school boys, all of them baseball players and proud of their straight throwing, sent a small shower of rocks whizzing through the air. These struck the bridge planks well ahead of the horse. "Stop -or the next ones will hit you!" shouted young Prescott. Just by way of suggestion he threw one stone that flew by within a foot of the nearer tramp's head.
While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp's eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one corner screwed in a queer lift: he winked slowly. 'Odd! ain't it? he said. Saddlebank shouldered round on us, and cried, 'Confound you fellows! here's a beastly place you've pitched upon. His face was the colour of scarlet in patches.
He sniffed the sweet, rich odour of it, and scratched his head in the same spot as before just beneath the peak of his speckled cap. His nose wrinkled up. Then he looked again into the faces, turning his single eye slowly upon each in turn. The Tramp's remark had reached his cautious brain.
At the sight of Rod, who was of course a perfect stranger to them, sitting on the floor, hatless, covered with dust, his clothing bearing many signs of the recent fray, and ruefully feeling of a lump on his forehead that was rapidly increasing in size, and of Smiler whose head was bloody, and who was still worrying the last fragment of clothing that the tramp's rags had yielded him, they stood for a moment in silent bewilderment.
I ain't any more afraid of French than a tramp's afraid of pie; I can rattle off my little J'AI, TU AS, IL A, and the rest of it, just as easy as a-b-c. I get along pretty well in Paris, or anywhere where they speak French. What hotel are you stopping at?" "The Schweitzerhof." "No! is that so? I never see you in the big reception-room.
He did not see the tramp and a sharp, "Hey, there, kid," made him halt, startled, gripping the treasured boat against his breast. Then he made out the man, and stood staring, poised to run. "Is there any way of getting across this infernal place?" The tramp's hand swept the prospect. Bashfulness held Tito speechless, and he stood rubbing one foot across the other.
This latter looked big enough to serve a whole family of six; but then a tramp's appetite is patterned very much on the order of a growing boy's, and knows no limit. Having spread his intended food around him as he squatted there, the hobo gave the boys a queer look. "You'll excuse me if I don't ask you to join me, youngsters," he went on to say.
He gave me a Southern smile and shrug of comprehension, as one acquainted with affairs of the heart, which was a relief after the cockney tramp's impudent expression of, no doubt, a precisely similar sentiment. "Now for this horrid puncture!" were the first words I was to hear fall from her lips. She sought for the wound in the india-rubber with growing bewilderment.
His character was weaker perhaps than Charles's, but the geniality of his writings bears testimony to his remarkable ability. He was only rescued from a condition little better than a tramp's by a kind friend. Charles's life was perhaps shortened by hypnotism. One of Kingsley's neighbours at Eversley was the late Sir W. Cope.
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