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Well, dearie, how does the effect get you?" and she wheeled around for her sister's inspection. "If you take my advice, you'll be careful not to be caught out in the rain." "What's chewin' you now?" demanded Lise.
"What you two chewin' the rag about?" demanded one, passing his hands rapidly up and down and around the rear clothing of Quincy, while the other as quickly "frisked" Benson. "Got a gun, I see! Got a license?" "Here's another gun man," said the second policeman, his hand on Benson's collar. "Got a license?" "Yes, where's yer license?" repeated the first officer, reaching for Quincy's collar.
He rode along in silence until they reached the top of the hill, and the house on the mesa stood before them, dark and lonesome. Then he pulled out his gun and handed it across to the Duke. "Run your thumb over the hammer of that gun, Duke," he said. "Well! What in the world it feels like chewin' gum, Taterleg." "It is chewin' gum, Duke.
Ain't it strong enough?" "Strong enough! You're disposed to be sarcastic. It's stronger than I am. What do they flavor it with tar?" "Say, let's see that plug. THAT ain't smokin' tobacco." "What is it, then asphalt?" "Why, haw! haw! That's a piece of Ezry's chewin'. Some he left when he went away. It's 'Honest Friend. 'TIS flavored up consider'ble. And you tried to smoke it! Ho! ho!"
"Yes, I went and married a dirty little rat name's Gilfoyle he thinks my real name's Anita Adair. I got it out of a movie, first day I ran off from you folks. I had an awful time, momma like to starved would have, only for clerkin' in a candy-store. Then I got work posln' for commercial photographers. Did you see the Breathasweeta Chewin' Gum Girl? No? That was me.
Does it please your youthful fancy to picture me picketed out to grass, and chewin' my cud on a sunny slope? "'Ow! says he. 'Leggo m' hair! "'You are now in the hands of E. G. W. Scraggs, says I, 'an honor which I shall give you cause to appreciate if you don't lend me your ears to what I say. Do you think you can hear me now? "'Yes, sir. Oh, yessir, yessir, says he.
They finished off the men, and snaffled the sheep and as much grain as they could carry, and came back. No one fired a shot at 'em. There didn't seem to be anybody about, but the snow was falling pretty thick. "'That's good enough, said Stalky when we got dinner ready and he was chewin' mutton-kababs off a cleanin' rod. 'There's no sense riskin' men.
If I didn't, I'd be towin' a grouchy bunch of minority kickers in where the reorganization board was cookin' up a new stock-transfer game, or make some other fool break that would spill the beans all over the pantry floor. "Torchy," says Mr. Robert, chewin' his cigar nervous and pawin' through pigeonholes, "ask Mr. Piddie what was done with those Mesaba contracts."
You'll either step into that cab or into a patrol wagon." Their eyes met and fought. The shallow, protuberant ones wavered. "Oh, well, it ain't worth chewin' the rag over. I reckon I'll go with you." He stepped into the cab. At sight of Olson he showed both dismay and surprise. He had heard of the threats the Dry Valley man had been making.
"I sure do both smokin' an' chewin', an' I can spare more chewin'. A little goes a long ways with me." "Wal, gimme some of both, most chewin'," replied Blair, with evident satisfaction. "You acquainted with Belllounds?" asked Wade, as he handed over the tobacco. "Wal, yes, everybody knows Bill. You'd never find a whiter boss in these hills." "Has he any family?"
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