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Then Danny picked up a board and, flanked by Chris, advanced to the fence, whereat Darn took to his heels, shouting, "Blue-eyed beauty! Ole Danny dumb-head!" as loud as he could. At the end of the alley he turned and shouted, "A pants' leg for an el'funt's tail! Oh, my gorry!" When he disappeared from sight, the three boys surveyed the elephant's skin lying on the ground.
I thinks to myself I'll learn that girl to get sassy and make me feel like a dumb-head, even if she is purty. So I don't say a word. I jest picks up that book and sticks it under my arm and walks away slow with it to where they was a stump a little ways off, not fur from the crick, and sets down with my back to her and opens it.
He had fought many boys bigger than himself, but he fled before the numerical strength of the present enemy, flinging back over his shoulder from a safe distance, "Blue-eyed beauty! Ole Danny dumb-head! Blue-eyed beauty! Ole Danny dumb-head! Yah! You'll hafta go to the poor farm if you want to see Jerry Elbow after Wednesday."
Perhaps she was, in her way, the nearest thing to a friend I had then in the world strange as it seems. As for Rucker, he was rejoicing, of course, at having trimmed neatly a dumb-head of a Dutch boy a wrong to my poor mother, the very thought of which even after all these years, makes my blood boil. I was off with the spring rush of 1855 for the new lands of the West!
Fact is," he continued, "my gettin' you up here was putty consid'able of an experiment, but I ben watchin' ye putty close, an' I'm more'n satisfied. Mebbe Timson c'd beat ye at figurin' an' countin' money when you fust come, an' knowed more about the pertic'ler points of the office, but outside of that he was the biggist dumb-head I ever see, an' you know how he left things.
"All I can say is, you'd better study national history, Danny, and learn how the four-footed friends of man are made," remarked Darn. "How do you know el'funts' tails are small and round?" asked Chris. "Because I'm no dumb-head and learn things." "I ain't no dumb-head," protested Chris and at the same time Danny asserted: "Chris ain't no dumb-head."
"Do you usually lock your door on the inside in that way?" she asked. "Eh? . . . Oh, yes'm. If I locked it on the outside I'd have to take the key with me, and I'm such an absent-minded dumb-head, I'd be pretty sure to lose it. Come on, Babbie. All aboard!"
"I guess you'd better take that back about Chris bein' a dumb-head," threatened Danny, scowling from under the elephant's trunk. "An' you'd better take it back about Danny's bein' one," remarked Chris. "I won't any such thing," retorted Darn. "We'll make you," challenged Danny, all his Irish fighting blood up.
Are you the pal of these cracksmen, or have you been on a lay on your own hook?" Rodney did not know what he meant, and he said so. "I mean," said the man, in the same low, thieves' jargon, "have you been helping these fellows crack a crib?" "Doing what?" said Rodney. "Breaking into a house, you dumb-head."
He dodged just in time to avoid the board which Chris, incensed at that most horrible of epithets for his eyes were blue had hurled at him with all his might. "Ole Danny dumb-head! Blue-eyed beauty! Ole Danny dumb-head! Blue-eyed beauty!" chanted Darn, thrusting his face between two palings of the fence and sticking out his tongue.
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