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Yes, I'm sure he don't room here. He just blew through the north exit. What's his line?" "Antiques, he says," says I. "Oh, sure!" says Squint. "Now I have him located. He's a free-lunch hitter; I remember one of the barkeeps grouching about him. But say, if you're after full details you ought to have a talk with Colonel Brassle. He knows him.
And Frank and Bart rejoiced beyond measure that they had been able to do their part in the closing. "Some fellows have all the luck," remarked Billy, when they had rejoined their regiment two days later, and were telling him all about it. "Now if that coin we flipped had only come down heads instead of tails " "Stop your grouching," laughed Frank.
"How refreshing!" cried Kate. "I love to hear you grouching! I hear nothing else from the women of the Bates family, but I didn't even know the men had a grouch. Are Peter, and John, and Hiram, and the other boys sore, too?" "I should say they are! But they are too diplomatic to say so. They are afraid to cheep.
I know what you're grouching about it's because I haven't been around much lately. But you ought to know well enough that I couldn't help it. Our game has been crimped lately at every turn by that she-devil, the White Moll, and that dude pal of hers." He laughed out again in savage menace now. "I've been busy. Understand, Bertha? It was either ourselves, or them.
Just listen to them grouching around. I'd hate to be a woman and married to one of them and have dinner late." Jerry had seated himself on the top of the reservoir, the cap between his legs. He caught hold of it with his two hands. "It's too blamed bad your dad couldn't hitch up with Uncle Sam!" he exclaimed. "Yes, and if you believe what the papers say, we're going to need it, too.
His attacks would often last for days, and the more attention you paid to him the worse he balked. She came to invoke my aid in trying to discover the size of Joe's head. I readily undertook the task, which loomed larger and larger as I came fully to realize that I was the sole member of the committee of ways and means. In my dire perplexity I saw Ed grouching along the hall.
Well, they would never succeed; they could go on forever with their grouching, but the mass of the workers in America had a normal attitude toward the big man, who could do things. They did not want to wreck his palace; they admired him for having it, and they followed his leadership gladly. It seemed as if Henderson, the lumber-jack, had read Peter's thought. "My God!" he said.
Doors were gone and windows had vanished. There was hardly a place where anything as large as a cat could be free from detection. "A mighty slim outlook," grumbled Tom, as they crouched close to a pile of masonry near the corner of a street. "Stop grouching," counseled Frank. "We may stumble across something at any minute." "Stumble is right," said Bart, as he rubbed a barked shin.
Tim Mahoney was there, grouching round about having to light up the hall next night for the B'nai B'rith; and I told him to take it for himself. He already had six drawnwork doilies and a vanity box with white and red powder in it.
"Oh, the girls are grouching a little because they helped earn all this, and are to be left out of it," explained Robert in a low voice. "Let's get each one of them a farm that will lay any of these completely in the shade," suggested John. "All right for you, if you can do it," said Robert, laughing, "but I've gone my limit for the present.
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