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McKinstry is publishing a little paper which somewhat resembles an over-ripe dish-rag, or an unlaundered sheet from the bed of a colored baby; but I have no idea why he is so unpopular. It may be because he possesses the physique of a bull elephant and the brains of a doodle-bug. It may be that the appearance of such an animal outside a dime museum, or a pig sty, angers the people.
He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. He laid himself down and put his mouth close to this depression and called "Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want to know! Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want to know!"
Personally, I do not care at all to kill trout unless by the fly; but when we need meat and they do not need flies, I never hesitate to offer them any kind of doodle-bug they may fancy. I have even at a pinch clubbed them to death in a shallow, land-locked pool.
Hadn't scarcely come to a stop when off he jumps and waves his fins and gives three cheers for it." "For what?" "Ohio. I'm tellin' you. He ramps across the track yippin' 'Ohio! Ohio! Ohio! whoopity-yoop. He come right at me and I says, 'Watch yehself, Buddy. You'll git left." "What did he say to that?" asked Banneker indulgently. "Never looked at me no more than a doodle-bug.
As a usual thing folks don't care fer me, and I don't care much fer folks. Women especial. They drives me plumb tired. I reckon I don't stack up very high in th' blue chips when it comes to cashin' in with the gentle sex, anyhow; but in general they gives me as much notice as they lavishes on a doodle-bug.
"There aren't any," put in Billy. "Wall, whatever kind of critters there are there," went on the old man, "no, sir; Ben Stubbs ain't the man to hold back on a venture like this. Sign me on as bos'n, and if I don't help nail Uncle Sam's colors to the South Pole call me a doodle-bug." "A doodle-bug," exclaimed Professor Sandburr, "What kind of a bug is that?
"Yu looks so nice an' cool, an' clean, I didn't know," responded Hopalong, eyeing a streak of sweat and dust which ran from Red's eyes to his chin and then on down his neck. "What yu been doin'? Plowin' with yore nose?" Returned Red, smiling blandly at his friend's appearance. "Yah!" snorted Hopalong, wheeling toward the corral. "Come on, yu pie-eatin' doodle-bug; I'll beat yu to th' gate!"
Remember your verse now, and I'll come slowly." Solemnly he began: "Scarab, tarantula, neurop " "'Doodle-bug," she prompted severely. " doodle-bug, flea," he concluded obediently. "Scarab, tarantula, doodle-bug, flea. Scarab, tarantula, doodle " "Oof! I I didn't think you'd be here so soon!" He scrambled to his feet, hardly less palpitating than on the occasion of their first encounter.
Don't you dare fall any more trees without measuring out the centre of gravity; and don't you split any more wood unless you calculate first the probable direction of riving; and don't you let any doodle-bug get away without looking at his teeth." California John grinned slowly, but his eyes were shining. "And what's more, you old grafters'll get bounced, sure pop," continued Martin.
"Would you mind substituting 'neuropter' in the third strophe?" he ventured. "It would be just as good as 'doodle-bug, and more more accurate." "What's a neuropter? You didn't make him up for the occasion?" "Heaven forbid! The dragon-fly is a neuropter. The dragon-fly we're going to breed to a biplane, you know," he reminded her slyly. "Indeed! Well, I shall stick to my doodle-bug.
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