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Poor Lizzie got all worked up; she took on and cried like a baby when we saw him go off chucklin' and you stayed out so long. She can't bear the thought o' touchin' 'em. And then when you come in and spoke about the selec'men, we guessed we was all wrong. Perhaps Lizzie feels bad about that now. I own I had hard feelin's toward you myself, John."
Pretty soon he rares up and walks over to the tree where ole Demijohn sets rockin' up and down and chucklin'. He takes a holt of Demijohn by the shoulder, and he says: 'You darned ole hocus, you, I lost my job, and I'm broke, lopin' around this country with you. "'Forget it! says ole Demijohn. 'Ain't I good comp'ny? "'Mebby you be for some folks, says young John. 'But not for me.
Just tell it right out, an' I'll lean up against this tree, so as not to hurt myself should I faint." "Well," sez he, chucklin' like a prairie-dog. "I propose we paint up the goat with phosphorus, put him in the barn, an' me an' you get up in the trees to watch." "What's the goat done?" sez I.
"It's a whim of Uncle's," says Alvin, chucklin'. "He's gone a little cracked over making and saving money. Poor old chap! Ego developed most abnormally. But the Judge he took me before was that kind too; so I am compelled to live with Dr. Slade. Jolly crowd up there, though. Come along, Scully; we mustn't be late for dinner."
It was after the second day of this watchful waitin', and we're sittin' down to a six-forty-five dinner, when a big racket breaks loose out front. The bell rings four times rapid, Lizzie the maid almost breaks her neck gettin' to the door, and in breezes the runaway pair with all their baggage, chucklin' and chatterin' like a couple of kids.
And say, in less than two shakes he's given the whole snap away, in spite of Old Hickory scowlin' and Auntie glarin' like she meant to murder him with her grapefruit spoon. But the news don't seem to impress Lieutenant Commander Faulhaber very serious. "Not really?" says he, chucklin'. "Oh? Then that's the reason for all this mystery? Treasure hunting! Well, well!"
"'Aye, aye, sir. "'Have ye et your full o' th' lotus? says Bull. "'Hard tack an' salt horse for King Gibney, I yells back. 'I ain't no vegetarian no more, Bull. Do you need a smart mate? "I could hear Bull McGinty chucklin' to himself. "'You young whelp, says Bull. 'I knew you'd outgrow it. They all do, when they're as young as you. I'll send the whaleboat ashore.
The oats was brought, and the Juke, boldly mountin the jibpoop, throwed them onto the towpath. The pirut rapidly approached, chucklin with fiendish delight at the idee of increasin his ill-gotten gains. But the leadin hoss of the pirut ship stopt suddent on comin to the oats, and commenst for to devour them.
Maybe he don't show up brilliant when he's talkin' to ladies; but I want to tell you he's about as good as they come." "Indeed!" says she, widenin' her eyes and chucklin' easy. "That is what I should call an unreserved indorsement. But about the roses, now?" Well, I sketched the plot of the piece all out for her, from findin' her miniature accidental in Mr.
"Chucklin'? if ye mean be that `larfin' in to myself' it's because I'm thinkin' o' a chap as once comed out to the prairies." "Let us walk back to the camp, Joe, and you can tell me about him as we go along." "I think," continued Joe, "he comed from Washington, but I never could make out right whether he wos a government man or not.
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