gadabout

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Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000.

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Evidently, getting into that creek was bound to be a problem in fractions; and Gadabout was not good at fractions and the day was waning and the tide was setting out.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

At last Gadabout was at the foot of the falls and rapids.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

We went as close to shore as we dared; and Gadabout crept cautiously up to one of the stakes, so as not to knock it over, and was tied to it.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

But the exploring spirit of the race is not what it used to be, and we simply ran Gadabout into a slip beside the disused canal and stopped.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.