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"Oh, goloptious!" shouted Yaspard, interrupting Tom without the least ceremony. "You have found out the very thing I meant to tell you. I meant to ask you fellows to help me." "Then it would seem," said Dr. Holtum, smiling for he had had a private talk with Tom, and had come to a conclusion of his own "that Yaspard's 'knightly quest' and Tom's 'deed of high emprise' are one and the same.
Scotland, however, fell considerably in the estimation of Mr. Onthank, when he learned that his favorite article of food was almost unknown in that distant country. "You Scotchmen don't know what is good," he said. "If you ever come to Green Mountain Mills, I'll get marm to fry a batch of nut-cakes, and you'll say they're goloptious."
She's going to take us to Paradise Valley, all by ourselves, with no men to bother and distract our attention. Men are out of place in Paradise anyway; just think how Adam behaved! It is to be a real old-fashioned "goloptious" picnic. Now, who would like to go besides myself?" "I, I, I," cried the girls, with gratifying unanimity. "Now, what day shall it be?" continued Julia. "Let's make Mrs.
"No," said the Pike man; "none of your Yankee truck for me." "I guess you don't know what's good," said Mr. Bickford. "What's your favorite vittles?" "Bacon and hominy, hoe-cakes and whisky." "Well," said Joshua, "it depends on the way a feller is brung up. I go for baked beans and brown bread, and punkin pie that's goloptious. Ever eat punkin pie, stranger?" "Yes." "Like it?"
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