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Excerpt: CHAPTER HI WHEN HU. SHOWED SOME PEP It was good domework of Mr. Robert's to tip me off about this Higgins party, or there's no knowin' how hard a time he might have had gettin' through the brass gate. As it is, the minute I spots the watch chain and the round cuffs and the neck freckles, I sizes him up as the expected delegate from the fresh mackerel and blueberry pie district. One of these long, lanky specimens, he is, with a little stoop to his shoulders, ginger-colored hair and mustache, and a pair of calm, sea-blue eyes that look deep and serious. I finds him pacin' deliberate up and down the waitin' room at eight-fifty-three A. m., which is two minutes ahead of my schedule for openin' the Corrugated for gen'ral business. His overcoat and a crumpled mornin' paper are on the bench; so I figures he's been there quite some time. Course, it might have been a stray Rube of most any name; but I thinks I'll take a chance. " Mornin', Ira," says I. " Howdy," says lie, as natural as if this was a reg'lar habit of ours. Which puts it up to me to find out if I'm right, after all. " Mr. Higgins, ain't it? " says I. He nods. " When did you get in? " says I. " About six," says he. " Come down by train or boat? " says I. " Train," says he. " You've had breakfast, I suppose? " I goes on.. Another nod. Oh, yes, for an economical con- verser, he was about the most consistent breath saver I ever tackled. You could easy go hoarse havin' a little ...
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Original publication date: 1914
Original Publisher: Edward J. Clode Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories
Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories Notes: ...