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Milt didn't care much for that ride. Bill was somewhat too evidently not accustomed to limousines. He wiped his shoes, caked with red mud, upon the seat-cushions, and apologized perspiringly. He said, "Gee whillikens, that's a dandy idee, telephone to bawl the shuffer out with," and "Are them flowers real, the bokay in the vase?"
But whose could have been the broken ragged shoes?" he asked, suddenly taking up another train of thought. "Hank Handcrafts, the beach-comber's," suggested Tubby. "Gee Whillikens! I'll bet a cracker that's the solution," cried Andy, "and now I come to think of it I heard, before we left, that Jack and his gang had gone camping." "Where?" "Up around the Upper Inlet somewhere.
From a remote hall I borrowed a Crusader's helmet and spent the balance of the afternoon in my room practicing with a sheet across my shoulders, shroud-fashion. We dined grandly at eight, the old man and I. He drank thirstily and chatted about the ghost, as you might discuss the chances in a coming athletic event. After what seemed an age he looked at his watch and cried: "Whillikens!
Old Squash! Whillikens!" At five o'clock Wasserman Avenue emerged in dainty dimity and silk sewing-bags. Rocking-chairs, tiptilted against veranda railings, were swung round front-face. Greetings, light as rubber balls, bounded from porch to porch.
Jimmy caught sight of Archie Fox -another of the out-boarding squad of Brighton boys, and a special friend of Jimmy's -hurrying to the Academy. "Great news for you, Arch!" shouted Jimmy as he joined his chum. "Shoot!" directed Archie. And Jimmy told the great news to the astonished and delighted boy. "Gosh whillikens!" yelled Archie. "A real live hangar in staid old Brighton! Can you beat it?
They were too dry to whistle. Then he suddenly heard the drug clerk exclaim: "Gee whillikens! This is the identical half-dollar you found this afternoon! I can tell it by the black mark on it." "Yes, it is," Jerry admitted in a forlorn tone. "So you told about finding it " "No, I didn't," interrupted Jerry, "but Kathleen was all out of cough medicine and Mother 'Larkey didn't have no money."
What you sitting there for, ma, like your luck had turned on you?" "Ask ask your sister, Izzy; she can tell you." "'Smater, sis?" "N-nothing only only old old Hochenheimer's coming to to supper to-night, Izzy; and " "Old Squash! Oh, Whillikens!" "Take me out, Izzy! Take me out anywhere to a show or supper, or or anywhere; but take me out, Izzy. Take me out before he comes." "Sure I will!
"'The only way is for money. "'How much are you going to charge? "'Well, I'll teach you the river for $500. "'Gee whillikens! he! he! I ain't got $500, but I've got five lots in Keokuk, Iowa, and 2000 acres of land in Tennessee that is worth two bits an acre any time. You can have that if you want it. He was with me for a long time, but sometimes took occasional trips with other pilots."
Whillikens! but I would be in hot water now! Everybody would have said, 'Only a chip off the old block. Just what might have been expected with such a father." "But, Alec, you wouldn't have gone after he had told you what his business was!" Philippa exclaimed, in a horrified tone. "You know that you wouldn't."
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