" "What a queer old codger Browse is!"

"Poor little codger!"

Lounging about the stalls until he found just the sort of old codger he wanted, he scraped up an acquaintance with him on the spot, and succeeded in making himself so agreeable that when the old fellow sauntered back to the stables to take a look at his horse, Sweetwater accompanied him.

"You mean he'll swim away with it," I said; "gee-williger, look how that little codger can dive.

Bert Winton (that was the new fellow) watched him, kind of laughing, and then he said, "Queer little codger, isn't he?" I said, "Yes, he's new and he came out of the slums.

" "Good idea," he said; "any news of the little codger?"

Skinny's one of those poor little codgers that's always unlucky.

Ain't he the humoursome codger?" "He shore couldn't 'a' dug up that hole already," declared Swing when Jack Harpe jumped to his feet after a sojourn on his knees of possibly thirty seconds' duration.

avarice, greed &c 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^, scrimp, lickpenny^, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.

See what a rough old codger your dad is; he doesn't trim his beard; yet, somehow, you manage to kiss him.

" "You are an honest codger, at any rate," said the pirate; "but, if you would live ten minutes longer, just tell me what you've got on board, and exactly where it lays.

You wouldn't be able to move that old codger away from the Senate chamber with a team of oxenonce he gets to his seat.

"Waste time driving out nowheres with an old codger like me?

"Yes""Old white-whiskered death's-head went over the river""Over here""A sassy old codger he was""He got his needings, too""Got his needings" They cast off the line and the oars began to dip.

You wouldn't want me to have as many wives as those old codgers down there below, would you?" "NoI'm sure you shouldn't have but one.

In her last letter to me she says, speaking of my daughter's marriage: I hope thirty years hence the twain will be as much in love with each other as two old codgers of my acquaintance, who go on talking heavenly nonsense to each other after the most approved fashion.

I imagine that you, gentlemen, are hoping to prove the old codgers insane.

That old tune may be all very well for old codgers tottering on the brink of the grave, but to young persons with youth and romance and good health surging through their veins, it is most boresome.

"I mean he was healthy and all that?" "Oh, healthy enoughbig, strong old codger.

His wife had died shortly after his retirement from business, and the old codger stamped in rage at the slovenliness and laziness displayed by his servants.

Of course I apologized; but he was a persistent old codger, and demanded an explanation of my epithet.

You annoyed her terribly with your codger-like ways, if I may be allowed that term.

And you can't blame us old codgers if we had a laugh at that, although it was such a powerful serious matter to the youngsters.

Old codgers like me can get along without such luxuries as sleep.

And in addition to that the old codger will give her six thousand thalers in cash!