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Updated: June 19, 2025
Two figures were advancing towards them a short, round, tubby man of fifty-five, red-faced, bald, with bright grey eyes, which seemed to be continually dancing away from meeting the eyes of any other human being. Behind him came a slim young man, dark and grave. For all the difference in their colouring, it was clear that they were father and son: their eyes were set so close together.
At Hull, prepared by wireless, doctors and nurses were waiting for Olive when the vessel reached port late at night. As Matheson hurried with the ambulance along the quayside, a tubby little figure of a man came up to him. "You remember me Martin?" he asked. "I'm covering this story for the Daily Truth." "Come with me," answered Matheson. "I'll give you the information you want presently."
I think that fat old mare understood me. She was as tubby and prosaic and middle-aged as I but she loved the Professor. Suddenly Andrew's words echoed again in my mind. I had barely heeded them before, in the great joy of my relief, but now their significance came to me. "In jail." The Professor in jail! That was the meaning of his strange disappearance at Woodbridge.
"Hurrah, Tubby has gone into the frog-raising business," shouted Tom, merrily. "I shan't put nuthin' on here," went on Peleg Snuggers, and watching his chance, he ran off at top speed, with his shoes in one hand and his socks in the other. "Now, Songbird, give us one of your best poetical effusions," came from Dick Rover, after the excitement had died down a little.
"Get up and make a speech!" shouted some one. The boys felt inclined to run for it. "Go ahead! Make some sort of a talk," urged Rob, helping Tubby on to the platform from which the prizes had been handed out. "Ladies and gentlemen," puffed the stout youth, "we want to thank you for your congratulations and thank the club for the fine cup. Er er er we thank you."
When the moment arrived to serve the roast goose, there was a pause, and Tubby took the opportunity to lay down his knife and fork for a little. But as the goose gave no sign of appearing, he sent his head carver to find out what was the matter in the kitchen. Now this was what had happened.
Providence, I says, 'has an eye on every sparrow that falls, but nothing is said about the jays, I says, 'and we'll see if a few of them wont fall for our little cute tricks. "Tubby sure, I'm speaking figurative. I aint really aiming for the deep woods proper. Only I've been in Noo Yawk long enough to git the Noo Yawk habit of thinking everybody beyond Rahway, New Jersey, is the Far West.
And now the club house loomed near once more. "Go on, Plying Fish, go on!" "You've got a time allowance on her!" "Push along, Rob!" "Kr-ee-ee-ee-ee!" A tumult of other shouts roared in Rob's ears as they tore past the crowded porch. "Kr-ee-ee-ee-ee!" screamed back Merritt and Tubby, with waves of the hand to the brown uniformed figures they could see perched on every point of vantage.
"Come in and shut the door," ordered the Scotchman. "I sent for you to congratulate you, Wally. You did fine work outside. You told me, didn't you, that it was all settled at last that our claims are clear-listed for patent?" The tubby little man felt the edge of irony in the quiet voice. "Sure. That's what Winton told me," he assented nervously.
"I was afraid for a minute they were I hardly know what. We'll have to fix that store tent more snugly in future." "And I'll have ter take a double reef in my pig Pen," chuckled the captain. Even the epicurean Tubby Hopkins voted dinner that day a great success, and Hiram, with becoming modesty, took his congratulations blushingly.
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