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But I got to go where I can see some girls. I'm dead sick of men. Come on in. We don't need to stay but a little while." "That's too long for me," said Cass. "If you weren't such a bonehead for doing what you start out to do, we could do something interesting." One might have thought they were Siamese twins, from the way in which Cass ignored the possibility of each going his own way.
"I hope her Highness got an eyeful of me shooting the chutes," said he, "for that's my farewell trip positively my last appearance in any water act." "Mighty decent of you and the Kid to volunteer," Pierce told him. "It sure was," the other agreed. "Takes a coupla daredevils like him and me to pull that kind of a bonehead play." Mr.
"I got him spotted on the teleceiver. Go aft, about a thousand, maybe fifteen hundred yards. I'll direct you from there." "Right!" snapped Roger. "And listen, you Venusian bonehead! Make it good. I don't like being a clay pigeon for this crazy shooting gallery out here!" "Aw, damp your tubes and get to work," drawled Astro. "Honestly, Tom, did you ever hear him not complain?" Tom did not answer.
Ashe's brain was working rapidly as he made for the shoe cupboard, that little den of darkness and smells, where Billy, the knife-and-shoe boy, better known in the circle in which he moved as Young Bonehead, pursued his menial tasks. What exactly was at the back of the Efficient Baxter's mind prompting these maneuvers he did not know; but that there was something he was certain.
When I went to give the manager of the department the benefit of my advice and wide experience, instead of taking it and being thankful for it, he fired me fired me cold. The bonehead!" Virginia stared at him in dismay. "But what are we going to do now?" she cried. Fanny had collapsed on to a chair, the picture of utter discouragement.
I don't often act this way, but, oh, gee! hearing you all talking like that about going to America, just as if it was the easiest thing in the world, only you couldn't be bothered to do it, kind of got me going. And to think I could be there right now if I wasn't a bonehead!" "A bonehead?" "A simp. I'm all right as far up as the string of near-pearls, but above that I'm reinforced concrete."
"Damn his soul!" growled the other by way of a prefix to his story. "It ain't any of the three with me. This Bard maybe he tried his hand with you?" Whether it was rage or scorn that made her start and redden he could not tell. "Me?" she repeated. "A tenderfoot get fresh with me? Stranger, you ain't been long in Eldara or you wouldn't pull a bonehead like that." "'Scuse me.
We get it: A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, Excelsior! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior! The meteoric voice said "Excelsior!" It should have said "Bonehead!"
"I'll admit that 'Bull' Hendricks is a finished workman when it comes to the use of pet names, after he's been stirred up by some bonehead play. But, after all, he doesn't use the paddle." "Paddle!" came the exclamation in chorus. "That's what I said. Paddle. In my day it was used by almost all the coaches, as an aid to quick thinking. Some advocate it even yet.
Wells. "Ah, don't be an old bonehead!" comes back Mabel. "What's the idea, wishin' this Rube stuff on us? You can just count me out, Hacky, if that's the game. Do you get me?" Hacky does. "I'm very sorry, Gentlemen," says he, "to ask you to modify your generous terms; but I feel that my wife's wishes in the matter ought to be taken into account." "Why er to be sure," says J. Bayard.
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