Like sixty

But there's these poor, miserable trash have children like sixty; and there's folks living in splendid houses, dying for children, and can't have any.

In transcribing them, I have inserted one or two apostrophes, for the poet always complained that though he could spell like sixty, he never could mind his stops.

That Maine water was so cold that he came to like sixty sore as a pup and wanting to fight Joe.

I charged at those trees going like sixty — at least sixty, whatever it means — and was well in among them when a strange thing happened.

Some kids still can't read yet. But they are dumb, dumb-bells, dumb bunnies. Morag can read like sixty. Sometimes she doesn't let on in school, though.

Maybe the truth was that all of them — himself, the kids, Uncle Henry, Mrs. Biggs, even Argyle — were bailing like sixty, trying to stay afloat in their sorry little tubs.