Can you, John Merrick, sit there like a lump o' putty and do nothing, when your niece and my own darlin' Patsy is lostor strayed or stolen?

I obtained a few gallons of methylated spirit which I poured into the cavity, just covering the body, and then I put on the lid and luted it down air-tight with putty.

I was a little afraid to crack Jerry's house by myself, for he's a strong old fellow, so I got a man named Putty Henderson to go along with me.

Putty was a big fellow and very handy with a jimmy; but he was awful contrary-minded, and he wouldn't agree to clean out Jerry until I promised to go halves with him.

Don't we, pard?''That's so,' says Putty.

You're Tommy Randall, and you're Putty Henderson, so you might as well take off them masks.

I am glad to do,' says I, 'for I hate 'em,' and I put mine in my pocket, and Putty he took off his.

Putty and me agree to go halves with what we get out of you, and when I lay out a piece of business I don't make no changes.

Half of that money is for me, and half is for Putty.

''No, I won't,' says he, and he turns to Putty Henderson.

'Now, Putty,' says he, 'you've got a pile more sense that this pal of yourn, and I'm goin' to see if I can't do business with you.

So, Putty, what do you say to that?'

Now, Putty, he must have been a little sore with me on account of the arguments we'd had about dividin', and he was mighty glad besides to get the chance of makin' fifty dollars extry, and so he said it was all right, and he'd agree.

''No, you won't,' sings out Jerry, and with that he jumps out of bed right at me, and Putty Henderson he comes at me from the other side, and, between the two, they gave me the worst lickin' I ever got in my born days, and then they dragged me down stairs and kicked me out the front door, and I had hardly time to pick myself up before I saw a policeman about a block off, and if he hadn't been a fat one he'd had me sure.

" "He really looked very nice in his new Pushtoo suit, with putty on his legs and chaplains on his feet....

No, it was only old Jud Harding, the blacksmith, whose hand had lost its strength, but who still worked iron as others mold putty, simply because he had the genius for his craft.

I was a down pillow, a lump of putty.

One man called up to speak with his daughter (one of the better forms) remarked that he "saw her putty good, but not very."

Current's putty lively.

Putty short tacks, Capm.

They's a kind of pigs in these deestricks putty nigh's long 's this boat.

I seed day arter day Miss Anna war gettin' weaker and thinner, an' she looked so sweet and talked so putty, I thinks to myself, 'you ain't long for dis worl'.'

"She had putty hair, putty eyes, putty mouth.

"She had putty hair, putty eyes, putty mouth.

But ef you seed dem putty white han's ob hern you'd never tink she kept her own house, let 'lone anybody else's.