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An' nex' 'e's a gentleman, and why you should want to mix 'im up with yer Shakespeares I can't think." It is doubtful if Mr. Mortimer heard the conclusion of her outburst. At the mention of Mr. Hucks he pressed a palm dramatically to his forehead; and now, withdrawing it, he handed her the two slips of paper with great politeness. "True, I had forgotten," he murmured.
Hucks, the business does not look promising." "All right, Glasson. You keep a child for two years on charity, and then get into a sweat on losing him. I trust your scent, and am not disheartened yet." "The boy has considerable natural refinement." "You didn't keep him for that?"
As it happens, the man in charge of the coal-boat was not, as I should judge, one of your regular employees certainly not an ordinary bargeman but a person whose speech betrayed him as comparatively well educated." "Eh?" Mr. Hucks sat upright and stared. "I am not suggesting " "No, damme you 'd better not!" breathed Mr. Hucks. "Very possibly he had bribed your man with the price of a pot of beer.
The Major resigned with a sigh of relief. Uncle John promptly sent the real estate agent a draft for five hundred dollars, with instructions to get the farm in shape for occupancy at the earliest possible day. "If Old Hucks is a farm hand and a bachelor," he wrote, "let him stay till I come and look him over. If he's a married man and has a family, chuck him out at once.
Ol' Hucks planted the berry patch an' looked arter the orchard an' the stock; but Cap'n Wegg on'y smoked an' sulked. People at Millville was glad to leave him alone, an' the on'y friend he ever had were crazy Will Thompson." "Crazy?" "As a loon." The agent hitched uneasily on the lawn bench, where he was seated, and then continued, hastily: "But thet ain't neither here ner there.
Uncle John was seated upon an overturned pail watching Old Hucks oil Joe's harness. The agent approached him with a deferential bow. "Sir," said he, "you'll 'scuse my comin' agin so soon to be a-botherin'; but I hev here three copies of Radford's famis wucks on the Lives o' the Saints, in a edishun dee looks " "A what?" "A edishun dee looks, which means extry fine.
Todd's chubby hand and told Thomas to drive on. "I dunno," remarked old Hucks, when they were out of earshot, "whether that feller's jest a common tramp or a workman goin' over to the paper mill at Royal. Jedgin' from the fact as he had money I guess he's a workman." "Wrong, Thomas, quite wrong," said Beth, seated just behind him. "Did you notice his hands?" "No, Miss Beth."
Hucks intended to be the first Englishman to fly upside down in England, but he was forestalled by one of our youngest airmen, Mr. George Lee Temple. On account of his youth Mr. Temple was only twenty-one at the time when he first flew upside-down he was known as the "baby airman", but there was probably no more plucky airman in the world. There were special difficulties which Mr.
And perhaps you oughtn't to to go to Thompson's," stammered Hucks, glancing up at them with his bright, elusive smile. "Well, we're going, anyhow," growled Mr. Merrick. "Then turn left at the main road an' keep straight ahead to Thompson's. Ye can't miss it, sir. Brick schoolhouse on the other corner." "Thank you, Thomas. Drive on, Louise."
This mornin' he sent half a dozen men, and they took the show to pieces and carried it off to Hucks's yard, where I hear he means to sell it by public auction." "Who's Mr. Hucks?" "He's the man that farms the Plain here farms it out, I mean," Mrs. Damper explained. "He leases the ground from the Corporation and lets it out for what he can make, and that's a pretty penny.
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