Generous Jack

Generous Jack "You can be trained here, of course. There are plenty of singers who “I couldn’t help it—”,"I knows es you wor at that devilry," he said, nervously. "When you claps your eyes on me I gets afeard.","She's not the Minorca?" cried the Admiral.,The work on the dam had gone smoothly since Mr. Whitney had taken the job over. Except for minor accidents, nothing really bothersome had happened to delay the work in any way, yet Bob, who was now constantly with the Chief, realized that something was bothering the man he was so fond of. Gone was the half chummy, half paternal air of Mr. Whitney. He was irritable and not at all himself.,“Do you live here?” she questioned with an irrepressible shudder.，She sighs, then looks at the sky, and—sighs again.，"Doctors!" she cried scornfully. "Little enough they know the needs of a woman at such a time. A doctor may be all right in his place, but his place ain't here among us woods folk. I tell you now I know my duty an' I'll do it because they need me."，“Gee, how will the farmers ever pay that off? Didn’t you tell me that the money was only advanced by the Government and that the farmers would have to return it after the water is delivered to them?”"It is a fact," insisted Jen. "I have the evidence of Jaggard to prove that Dido was in the room on that night."

One hot noontide he and Eric lay on the wharf in the baking sunshine. It was not Pilot Taraldsen’s wharf near the house, but the old wharf beyond the woods.,"It will strengthen you," he says, persuasively.,"Dat so; but I not see dat debble-stick.","Very well, then; I shan't leave you; but you shall have that dress all the same," he says. "How shall we arrange about it?","Yep," he replied, "we saw that steer, too. We've been waitin' here, hopin' we'd hear your whistle. I wonder what time it's gettin' to be?","You are right," said the monster; "but, besides being ugly, I am also stupid; I know, well enough, that I am only a Beast.","I see," acknowledged Judith, sweeping the ringleaders with her sharp scrutiny. "They're all simply stunned, but they're mighty glad, too. They're going to give the Academy Howl. Oh, Patricia, I wish I could howl, too!","Nothin' else," retorted the tramp sullenly. "My father was black, an' my mother she was white; an' they weren't married. I was brought up in Battersea parish, so I took that name, I did, not havin' any right to another name.",When the young man got there, the badger was in his hole. But Scarface called to him, "Oh, cunning striped face! I wish to speak with you.",CHAPTER XI The Pet Horse,"An' phwat has he said? 'Some av ut,' said he, when first I broached the question. And the nixt time I axed him he said. 'Half av ut.' Nixt time—only yesterday ut was—he said, 'Harry, I'd be givin' two-thirds av ut to the finder.'",CHAPTER XXIV BILLY TO THE RESCUE.