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"I'm going over there to discover it and then it's mine, the whole island's mine because findings is keepings, that's international law." No doubt he felt that the League of Nations would stand in back of him in the matter of this epoch-making discovery. There was no doubt at all of the reality of this extraordinary apparition. Pee-wee, who was always sure of everything, was doubly sure of this.
"I say, young fellow!" was the greeting I received from a smart looking youngster not much older than myself who welcomed me at the rail "is that your whale?" "If 'findings is keepings' it is surely mine," I said. "But I didn't kill it, and now I've got a leg over your rail I'll give you all my title and share in the beast."
"Did you see it in pieces?" asked Grace. "What a lot of money!" "How many pounds of chocolates would it buy?" asked Amy, with a laugh. "Don't you dare say chocolate to me!" commanded Grace. "It is real," went on Betty, who had not spoken since picking up the money. "There's no doubt of that." "If findings were keepings you'd be well off," said Mollie. "How lucky you are!" and sighed.
The snowshoes seemed to puzzle them considerably, however, and they were undecided whether to regard them as musical instruments or a novel form of headgear. "Hi! Just you put those clothes down at once!" shouted Dick. "How dare you interfere with our things!" "They're not yours," said one of the monkeys. "Findings keepings. We found them, and so they are ours." "Indeed they are not.
But Shif'less Sol firmly retained his precious package. "Takin's are keepings," he said. "These paints are mine, an' I 'low you to make use o' them on one condition only." "What is that?" "When I paint you, you paint me, an' then we'll go into this mighty Injun metropolis together. Mebbe you'll need me, Henry, an' I'm goin' with you anyway. You've got to agree to it."
Whether or not its keepings were destroyed by the fire, was known only to the younger Gordon, who, as the foreman of the Chiawassee night shift informed a Tribune reporter, had broken it open himself, deep in the small hours of the night following the fire, and behind the locked door of the furnace laboratory.
They did no harm, however, excepting to create a slight alarm, which some neighbouring villagers took advantage of to run of with two of my cows. To be returned to them, but called in vain, as the scoundrels said, "Findings are keepings, by the laws of our country; and as we found your cows, so we will keep them."
A bit conscience-stricken because, if he could, he was going to rob his guest on the basis that findings is keepings? Cutty wasn't ready to analyze the omission. Perhaps he wanted Hawksley himself to inquire about the stones; test him out. If he asked frankly that would signify that he had brought the stones in honestly, paid his obligations to the Customs.
"I don't rent that fence to the circus, or menagerie, or whatever it is." "Can I have it?" "Findings are keepings," said the agent, "especially when they ain't worth looking for; that's railroad rule, and I guess circus-companies haven't got a better one." The finder sat down on the platform, took a knife from his pocket, and carefully cut the monkey and the elephant's head from the paper.
And, after all, if larger liberties are attached to the acquisition of knowledge, and the child finds that it can no more go to the seaside without a knowledge of the multiplication and pence tables than it can be an astronomer without mathematics, it will learn the multiplication table, which is more than it always does at present, in spite of all the canings and keepings in.
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