Word: rascality
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JUST OUT-Our Rascall the Rival-No more clothing stolen. It shows how easy they can enter your room with the door locked and how to prevent them. It exposes every rascally device and explains the safeguard for your protection. 500 illustrations showing vividly the ways and workings of the hydraheaded rascal. 27 years experience of Supt. B. P. Eldredge and Chief Inspector Wm. B. Watts. It is a standard authority on crime and its prevention that should have a place in every library. Address, X, Crimson office...
...scene of the third act is laid before Justice Wheezy's house. The pirates are brought in, loaded with chains, by the soldiers. Rooney, who is as much of a rascal as any of them, prefers the charge against the prisoners, and the justice orders them off to prison. The bridesmaids, however, beg for mercy on the ground of its being leap-year. The justice finally gives in, the pirates are brought back, Constance is given to Dawdle, while Cherry takes possession of Rattles, and the play ends in a passionate burst of music from the throats of everyone...
...said that the pearls he meant were the pearls of speech. The judge was pleased with the fellow's ingenuity, and, after urging the woman to submit to the will of her lord, dismissed the man with a present of money. In the eleventh the narrator sees the same rascal making a pious speech at a funeral, by which he manages to collect a considerable sum from the sorrowing relatives. In the last one of the series the fellow repents and becomes a noted saint, carrying with him into his new pursuit the same eloquence which had served...
...could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember the tall, spare old gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading the morning paper and glancing up over his spectacles every moment or so to see that young rascal was not pulling the fire out into the middle of the room. At home the old sofa stood beneath a window too, and I remember when quite a child kneeling upon it to look out and watch the birds that came for crumbs, and the snowberry bushes outside waving...
...That Rascal...