" "I ain't here to fix up no scoop for the Record", broke in Grady.

It's exactly what the Pinkertons would enjoya first-class Pinkerton scoop.

"That suicide story has broken big and we've got a scoop.

Dillon improvised a scoop out of a dirty envelope.

So old Pinkerton was making a journalistic scoop of it.

Deuce a one of them know a "corner" from a cockatrice's egg, and if you had mentioned a "scoop" to the most intelligent of them, he'd have sworn that you had been and gone and swallowed a Scandinavian dictionary.

A rival correspondent, when he glanced at the article immediately after it had appeared, decided that it was more suitable for mail matter than cable matter, put it in an envelope, and actually scored a scoop over all opponents.

They made some boxes, tops, and hoops, They fashioned bowls and chairs, They sold a thousand million scoops, And seven hundred stairs;

"But they'll get away," said Dab, as he snatched up the scoop.

I got out my knife, took a scoop out of the clay wall, and fishing out a candle-end from my pocket, stuck it in the niche, lit it and a cigarette.

" Katherine dropped the sugar scoop with which she had been shovelling out brown sugar, and, crossing over to where Miles was standing, gave him a hearty hug and a resounding kiss.

" She tossed her yellow head ever so slightly, and turned the scoop of her bonnet a little away from his pain-lighted face.