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"Yeppie," he returned. "But y' see, sonny, it's this-away: if you got jes' one eye, w'y, they make y' pay twicet!" Another gasp. It was so grossly unfair! However it had all proved to him beyond a doubt that here was a man of unlimited wealth. On several occasions Uncle Albert's millionaire had treated Johnnie to candy and apples. But now the riches of that person seemed pitifully trivial.
The latter had no trouble at all in seeing Johnnie's attitude. "Was a boy myself oncet," he declared. "Used t' git the end of a rope ev'ry little while yeppie, the knot-end, and that's how " But here Johnnie interrupted the story which seemed to be under way in order to urge some plan of action.
Finally, to change the subject, the cowboy broke into that sad song about his mother, which stopped any further attempt to thank him. "I'll tell y' what," he declared when Johnnie's mind was at last completely diverted from his polite intention; "they's jes' one thing shy. Yeppie, one. What y' need now is a nice, fine, close hair cut." "At a at a barber's?"
Flossie and Freddie, though they knew how to telephone, would hardly have thought of calling up the police. But they were asked about it. "Nope, we didn't do it," Flossie said. "Though we likes p'licemans; don't we, Freddie?" "Yeppie," he answered sleepily. "When I grows up I'm goin' be a p'licemans or a firesmans I forget which." "He's sleepy," laughed the officer. "But what about this, Mr.
"Do?" this stranger seemed to have Grandpa's habit of repeating the last word. "Oh, I val-lay a hoss." Johnnie was no wiser than before, but he felt it good manners to appear enlightened. "You you do that back there?" he ventured next. "Yeppie. In the Garden." Now Johnnie was hopelessly lost.
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