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"No-o," she admitted, after a moment's reflection, "but she can't talk, you know, and so she has to hope twice as hard else I wouldn't know it. Good-by. Oh, I forgot; Captain Hedge liked his swordfish EVER so much. He said it was a a oh, yes, humdinger." She trotted off after her mother.
Why not just tell me?" "You explained why." "Overwhelming? Are you that terrific?" "I'm a humdinger, Bub. Think you can stand it now?" "I think the full blast would be better than any more of your 'gentle' hints." "That's what you think." Come now, the first shock had been fairly neatly delivered and fielded after all, the concept of difference proposed, established and accepted. "Well, here goes.
She's a humdinger at weaving." He was moving about as he spoke, showing me all his little belongings. He reminded me for all the world of a man in a Harlem flat, showing a visitor how convenient it all is. Somehow, too, the Cave-man had lost all appearance of size.
Then somewhere a querulous voice was saying: "I told you the picture would be overexposed when you were takin' it. You'll never listen to me." A deeper voice answered: "The light was stronger than I thought; but, anyway, it's a humdinger of a negative." Then, sharply, "Sh-ss-sh! What was that, Honey?" A silence fell instantly. "Honey!"
Not that I'm ag'in culture; it's a mighty fine thing to have hangin' around a man. But if a man ain't got it an' still measures up to man's size, he's goin' to be a humdinger when he gets all the culture that's comin' to him. Mebbe Calumet'll never get it. But he's losin' his grouch, an' if you " "When do you think you will finish repairing the corral?" interrupted Betty. Dade grinned.
"Nor you couldn't have got Helena aboard the boat if you had, now could you?" "No." "Let alone the old girl, her revered aunt!" He dug another thumb into his own pink striped waistcoat. "She loves you a lot, I am not of the impression!" "No, I think she rather favored you!" I replied gravely. "No chance! And I say, isn't Sally a humdinger? Just the sort for me something doing every minute.
The cowboy shifted his weight uneasily in the saddle, while he regarded the man on the ground curiously. "She was sure a humdinger of a celebration," he admitted, "but as for the show part I've seen things happen when nobody was thinking anything about it that would make those stunts at Prescott look funny. The horse racing was pretty good, though," he finished, with suggestive emphasis.
About the same hour J. Augustus Redell might have been seen at the press table on 'Change, unfolding a similar story to the market reporter of the Examiner, who thought it was a humdinger of a story, and so declared. "All right. Glad you think so," Mr. Redell replied, beaming upon him. "And just to show you I'm right, I'll not breathe a word of it to the Chronicle man."
"First thing we know they might be saying it to us with flowers." "Let 'em talk!" said the buoyant Wilbur. "Of course we'll get into trouble sooner or later." "Sure!" agreed Spike. "Way I look at it, I got about one good fight left in me. All I hope is, it'll be a humdinger." Later they wandered along River Street, surveying the little town with new eyes.
Alas, however, the times when she was so were yearly growing rarer. Kate went on tentatively: "I think I'll 'cut' for a hard winter. You know my motto, 'Better be sure than sorry." "I wouldn't be surprised if 'twan't a humdinger last winter was so open. I think we'd be safer if we ship everything that's fat enough."
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