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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Hanging a Chinaman?" said Laurier. "Sure. Der sleuths got him rubberin' der rail-road sheds!" "Oh!" "Dose guys done wase cartridges. Deyse hung him and dey pulled his legs. Deyse doin' all der Chinks dey can fine dat weh! Dey ain't takin' no risks. All der Chinks dey can fine."
"Look!" says I, pointin' to the wireless gridiron over our heads. "Where do you guess he is now?" Vee shakes her head. "Gettin' in his fine work with Meyers," says I. "He's been at it ever since breakfast." "Think of that!" says Vee. "And you believe he means to " "S-s-s-sh!" says I. "Someone might be rubberin'." Does it work?
"Say, young lady," he demanded, in a truculent manner, "what do you mean by gettin' into these grounds and rubberin' at us over our wall? Don't you know you can be run in for passin' those signs? Didn't you see that gate?" "Oh, yes," faltered Katrina; "yes I saw the gate." "Well, how'd you get past that gate and them signs," Mr. Connor wanted to know. "I I climbed the gate," hesitated Katrina.
The silence continued. 'Ogden Ford is not here, I said. Our visitor had not that simple faith which is so much better than Norman blood. He did not believe me. Without moving his head he gave a long whistle. Steps sounded outside. Another, short, sturdy form, entered the room. 'He ain't in de odder room, observed the newcomer. 'I been rubberin'! This was friend Buck beyond question.
By leanin' out and rubberin' I could look down into the room. And, say, the shock almost tumbled me out. For there's the Doc sittin' in his shirtsleeves with four other gents around a green topped table decorated with stacks of chips.
"We was both rubberin' astern an' to starboard an' port, but not a sign o' the girl do we see. I got out my glasses an' searched around for full half an hour, an' by that time we was five miles out to sea, and it wasn't no use lookin' any more, an' besides I had work to attend to. "We sailed along all the afternoon, over a sea as smooth as a dance-hall floor.
Dere was a bunch of dem talkin' togedder, and I hears dem say you was in here. One of dem seen you come in, an dere ain't no ways out but de front, so dey ain't hurryin'! Dey just reckon to pike along upstairs, lookin' into each room till dey finds you. An dere's a bunch of dem goin' to wait on de Street in case youse beat it past down de stairs while de udder guys is rubberin' for youse.
'Quit yer kiddin'! What was youse rubberin' around de house for last night if you wasn't trailin' de kid? 'Was it you who ran into me last night? I asked. 'Gee! I fought it was a tree. I came near takin' de count. 'I did take it. You seemed in a great hurry. 'Hell! said the man simply, and expectorated.
With that hideous strip of dingy white linen on his face, he was a walking nightmare. Mr Abney's eyebrows had risen and his jaw had fallen to their uttermost limits. His hair, disturbed by contact with the pillow, gave the impression of standing on end. His eyes seemed to bulge like a snail's. He stared at Buck, fascinated. 'Say, you, quit rubberin'. Youse ain't in a dime museum.
"Ye can apollygise to riff-raff of the streets for settin' yer unhandy feet on the tails of their frocks, but ye'd walk on the neck of yer wife the length of a clothes-line without so much as a 'Kiss me fut, and I'm sure it's that long from rubberin' out the windy for ye and the victuals cold such as there's money to buy after drinkin' up yer wages at Gallegher's every Saturday evenin', and the gas man here twice to-day for his."
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