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On the way back, his trail crossed that of a breed wolfer on his way into the Bad Lands. Billy immediately asked for tobacco, and the breed somewhat reluctantly opened his pack and exchanged two small sacks for a two-bit piece. Billy, rolling a cigarette with eager fingers, felt for the moment a deep satisfaction with life.
I telephoned to the police and told 'em all about it. And I telephoned for a motor car for me and got into some clothes. Good and scared yes! I caught sight of my face in the looking-glass, and, my! but it was pasty it looked like one of these cheap apple pies you see in the window of a two-bit lunch place! And while I'm waiting for this motor car, what should come but a telegram from Mr.
It's a little two-bit town up the river a ways. I'm goin' to pack out some grub." Stevens's tone was inviting. Evidently he would welcome Duane's companionship, but he did not openly say so. Duane kept silence, however, and then Stevens went on. "Stranger, in this here country two's a crowd. It's safer. I never was much on this lone-wolf dodgin', though I've done it of necessity.
"The Montgomerys were one of the very best families here; and he's the last of them. Old lady Montgomery died the year we went away to school, and he had heaps of money but he lost it." My sole performance in this line had been the dropping of a two-bit piece down a crack in the board walk, and before I had time to ask how Johnny Montgomery had managed to lose sight of "heaps," Mr.
But it's on with the dance! They keeps whoopin' an' shoutin' an' ridin' the cirkle an' grabbin' at the gander, each in his cheerful turn, ontil some strong or lucky party sweeps away the prize, assoomes title to the two-bit pieces, goes struttin' to the licker room an' buys nosepaint for the pop'lace tharwith.
"Oh, that biscuit-shooter on the Santa Fé, Hot coffee, ham-and-eggs, huckleberry pies, Got every lonely puncher that went down that way With her yella-bird hair and them big blue eyes . . . "For a two-bit feed and a two-bit smile . . ." The song was interrupted by the appearance of Corliss, who swung to the seat and took the reins. "I'll jog 'em for a while," he said as Shoop climbed beside him.
Thorn was simply in the fix of the fellow between the bull and the bulldog he had a choice, but it was only whether he would rather be gored or bitten, so he took the ten thousand, and that night Jim faded away on a west-bound Pullman, smoking two-bit cigars and keeping the porter busy standing by with a cork-screw.
Some of the effects are well known, but others aren't. The 3rd Weather Group at Air Defense Command Headquarters in Colorado Springs has done a lot of work on the effects of weather on radar, and they have developed mathematical formulas for telling how favorable weather conditions are for "anomalous propagation," the two-bit words for false radar targets caused by weather.
If it'd rid, instead of me drawin' down after the third pass, I'd 'a' won over thirty thousan' on the original two-bit piece." "Just the same, Shorty, this is a real system." "Huh! You got to show me." "I did show you. Come on with me now, and I'll show you again."
"Money!" exclaimed Luke, blankly. "Say, I haven't owned a two-bit piece since wal, fer some time." "I'll furnish money for grub," returned Duane. "And for whisky, too, providing you hurry back here without making trouble." "Shore you're a downright good pard," declared Stevens, in admiration, as he took the money. "I give my word, Buck, an' I'm here to say I never broke it yet.
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