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Updated: May 7, 2025
Just as I was getting better, I heard Melchard, and I thought the best place for my aristocratic nose was on my daddy's shoulder. Dick!" she cried, looking up at his solemn face, "I really couldn't help feeling bad." "Most girls 'd've fainted. You're clever as paint," he said, "you turn your two-spots into aces, and leave him in baulk every time. Poor, shaking kid!
O'Mally's face wore several new wrinkles; and both he and Smith were looking at the green mold on the flag-stones as interestedly as if China was but on the other side. Kitty saw nothing, not even the hills she was staring at. "Since you have made up your mind, Jack," said Merrihew doggedly, "why, there's nothing for me to do but fall in. But it's kings against two-spots."
Surely, doggedly, the home boys forced the ball down the gridiron. At last Gridley was forced to make a safety, thus scoring two points for their opponents. "Don't let that happen again, fellows," urged Wadleigh anxiously. "Fight for time, but don't throw any two-spots away." "Rally, men! Brace! Crush 'em!" ordered Captain Grant. "Seven minutes left! We've got to score."
'We get the heelers out with the crackly two-spots, and coal-tickets, and orders for groceries, and have a couple of picnics out under the banyan-trees, and dances in the Firemen's Hall and the usual things. But first of all, Sully, I'm going to have the biggest clam-bake down on the beach that was ever seen south of the tropic of Capricorn. I figured that out from the start.
"Yes, my friend," I thought, "you and I are a couple of two-spots here, swallowed up in the scenery." I thought of what Joe had said that day: "When you see the crowd, in a strike like this, loosen up and show all it could be if it had the chance that sight is so big it blots you out you sink you melt into the crowd." Something like that happened to me.
Those fellows are probably a thousand miles from here by this time." "What makes you think so?" asked Carter. "They may be right here in Nevada City. Some of those fellows can throw a perfect bluff on a pair of two-spots." "Well, Carter, I thank you for your suggestion. After this, I'll be careful. That is, I'll appear to be careless.
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