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Why should we be here? It isn't where we come from, But why should we appear? It's really inexplicable, Extr'ordinary, queer: Why should we come and talk a bit, And then just disappear? "Why, why, why?" shouted the two elder children. The air was filled with flying "whys." They tried to sing the verse. "Let's dance it," cried Judy, leaping to her feet. "Give us the words again, please."
"You'll like me all the better later on," said Gertie, "because of that. Always supposing," she continued, "that you do go on liking me." "So far as I can gather," he remarked good-temperedly, "I am persona grata now at Praed Street." "I don't know what that means," she said; "but aunt has quite taken to you. Just look at this! Isn't it extr'ordinary?
Keyser "Excuse these little interruptions; the old woman's kinder sing'ler, and you've got to humor her to live in peace with her. Well, sir, as I said, I rode that extr'ordinary hoss down yer by the creek on that day to which I am referring and after passin' the cornfield I was goin' to wade him into the creek; just then, all of a, suddent, what should that hoss do but " Mrs.
Last night we were dining with friends at one of the hotels, and the usual topic came up for discussion. Imagine what followed. "That Jericho road is positively frightful," says a British female tourist in lace cap, lilac ribbons and a maroon poplin dress, "the heat is most extr'ordinary!"
Keyser asked us into the parlor, and while we were sitting there we heard Mrs. Keyser in the dining-room, adjoining, busy preparing supper. Keyser would not sell his horse, but he was quite sociable, and after some conversation, he said, "Gentlemen, in 1847 I owned a hoss that never seen his equal in this State. And that hoss once did the most extr'ordinary thing that was ever done by an animal.
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