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Some people have not yet learned that a fifty-dollar hat can never cover the deficiency of a two-cent head. Ofttimes money only makes a mean life more conspicuous. True, some of these people dress more becomingly than they suspect for their slim, pointed-toed English shoes admirably match their few ideas.
"If that was the case, wouldn't he be apt to hike out after him and try and get back his stuff? And wouldn't " "How much money did this friend uh yours have?" queried Jack Bates innocently. "Well, when I seen him in Benton, he had somewhere between six and seven hundred dollars. He got it all changed into fifty-dollar bills " "Oh, golly!" Jack Bates rolled over in disgust. "Andy's losing his grip.
He had taken his trunk with him, and hadn't left any address; but in my travelling-bag I found a fifty-dollar bill, with a slip of paper on which he had written, 'No use coming after me; I'm married. We'd been together less than four months, and I never saw him again. "At first I couldn't believe it. I stayed on, thinking it was a joke or that he'd feel sorry for me and come back.
Who wants Ugolino in the house, if it is ever so well painted? Supping on horrors indeed!" We rocked again, and Laura talked about plants and shirts and such healthy subjects. But, of course, my mind was in such a condition, nothing but fifty-dollar subjects would stay in it; and, most of all, I must not let Laura guess what I was thinking of.
He cost me the fifty-dollar prize, and, beside that, all the kids in the village now call me 'cheater, and hardly anybody will have anything to do with me." "Well, how do you propose to get even by going camping?" inquired Bill. "I plan to take that Digby kid with me," rejoined Jack calmly. "You're crazy!" exclaimed Bill. "Why, we'd have the whole country after us for kidnapping."
However, to all intents and purposes, they were married; and at the conclusion of the service, the bridegroom slipped a fifty-dollar note into the rector's hand, and then conducted his lovely bride to the carriage, in which they were soon driven to Mr. Hedge's residence in Hudson street. In explanation of the singular conduct of Dr.
"It appears that in this tin box there was a certain fifty-dollar bill, which had been torn into four parts, and mended by pasting two strips of paper upon it, one extending from right to left, and the other from top to bottom, on the back." "Eh?" interposed the wicked nabob. "Wait a minute." The captain opened an iron safe in the room, and from a drawer took out a handful of bank bills.
This little episode had just occurred, when the door of the inner room was thrown violently open and a man, his coat off, rushed up to the bar. "Here, Jerry, break this fifty for me," at the same time throwing down a fifty-dollar bill, crisp and fresh. "Your playin' in bad luck to-day, Cook?" "Yes, damn it," said Cook. "Give me a drink for good luck."
Nothing but a streak out of a fifty-dollar lecture. As when, at some unlooked-for moment, the mighty fountain-column springs into the air before the astonished passer-by, silver-footed, diamond-crowned, rainbow-scarfed, from the bosom of that fair sheet, sacred to the hymns of quiet batrachians at home, and the epigrams of a less amiable and less elevated order of reptilia in other latitudes.
"I don't," said Rob sadly, "but for what possible motive?" "I have it," suddenly exclaimed Tubby Hopkins, snapping his fingers, "you remember the day of the aeroplane model contest?" "Yes, but what " began Rob. "Has that to do with it," finished Tubby for him. "Everything. It was Joe who first told the committee that Jack's model was a bought one and so lost him the fifty-dollar prize."
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