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"You wuz a sayin' thet your fool grandpop wuz supposin' that ef something said to him as he wuz-oh, go on and tell it yourself!" "All right. Well then grandpop was jes' a thinkin' how awful it 'ud be ef anything like that ever did happen. He'd come home and talk to grandma'am at nights about it. I tell you his nerves was powerful upsot. Suthin' like yours." "Like mine, you long-legged lizard!"
May more good folk come to know them!" And little John Leslie cried hoarsely "Hooray, grandpop, hooray for a Country Christmas!" Carelessly alive to the merry spirit of the night, the jester presently adjusted a flute which hung from his shoulder by a scarlet cord and lazily piping a Christmas air, wandered to another room to come suddenly upon a forgotten playmate of his boyhood days.
Allowing for tare, though, if he still nets ten I'll feel that he's a credit to the brand. It's a great thing to be sixty minutes old, with nothing in the world except a blanket and an appetite, and the whole fight ahead of you; but it's pretty good, too, to be sixty years old, and a grandpop, with twenty years of fight left in you still.
"But, Barbara," argued Ian, as we reached the porch, "it wasn't us that crawled, it was moles, and they just digs right ahead and turns up the ground and flowers and everything, and never thinks things, do they, grandpop?" "Martha will take you in," I said, steadying my voice with difficulty, "and bathe your knees and let you rest a while before she dresses you again.
But still Jimmie remembered once before he had knelt at that same spring, and that when he raised his eyes he had faced a crouching panther. "Mebbe dad told me it happened to grandpop," Jimmie would explain, "or I dreamed it, or, mebbe, I read it in a story book." The "German spy" mania attacked Round Hill after the visit to the boy scouts of Clavering Gould, the war correspondent.
"Oh, grandpop," cried little John Leslie 3rd, bolting into the study in great excitement "Come see Roger! We kids have made him the Christmas king and he's got a crown o' holly on and and a wand and he's a-tappin' us this way with it to make us Knights.
"When I flopped into the water, like a fish dumped out of a net, your grandpop, Freddie, took nary a chance at reachin' me with the rope. He dropped the regular oars and took one of the pair he called lucky. "'Here, he yelled, 'grab to that!
"I like good company," answered Dellarme cheerfully. "Compliment for you, grandfather!" said Stransky. "Put me down!" screamed grandfather. "Still there, eh? Thanks, grandpop!" said Stransky, turning on Dellarme. "Can't you run any faster than that, captain? Your place is with your men, sir. If you got wounded I'd have to carry you, too. Your company's gaining on you every minute. Hurry up!"
"Oh, cut it out, grandpop," was the somewhat irreverent reply. "Aren't you afraid you might miss forty winks?" and then turning to his mother, "I say, mamma, if one of them lands on our house, you promise you'll wake me up, won't you? I want to see everything, and last time and the time before, I missed it!" "Yes, darling, of course, but go to sleep, there's a good boy."
Easy enough to do it when you have a feller like 'Squire Keller to deal with. Oh," said Preston, shaking his head, "Rufe Blent knows what he's about, you may believe!" "Who's the old gee-gee with the whiskers?" asked the disrespectful Isadore, when the real estate man came down to the dock, with the constable slouching behind him. "Hurry up, Grandpop!" shouted one of the Tingley boys.
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