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"All right," I says, "I don't want nothing more out of YOU than just your word I druther have it than another man's kiss-the-Bible." She smiled and reddened up very sweet, and I says, "If you don't mind it, I'll shut the door and bolt it." Then I come back and set down again, and says: "Don't you holler. Just set still and take it like a man.
But, again to her surprise, the infants now showed pleasurable interest. An excited murmur rose. "I like that part!" ... "Why didn't he kill the girl babies, too?" ... "Did he cut their heads right off?" ... "Did their mothers holler?" ... While the male member offered with an air of authority, "I 'spect he just wrung their necks." "Well, well!
"Can you holler good an' loud?" he asked. The girl shot him a curious glance. "Sure I can." "Can you walk on icy walks " "Oh, I'm as strong as anything," Jinnie cut in, glancing downward at herself. "I know a lot of kids who earn money," said Lafe meditatively. "What do they do?" "Get wood out of the marsh behind the huts there. Some of 'em keeps families on it." "Sell wood!
"Here I've worked half the season and never given 'em a story that wasn't pretty nearly true, and to-day when I take them that account of Morelli and the jaguar they turn me down and holler 'fake. Let me take one of those cubs and stripe it over with a little black paint, and to-morrow morning every newspaper in New York will have a photographer down here to take pictures of 'the only hybrid lion-tiger cub ever born, and all of the space jerkers will be buttonholing me for a three column, front page story."
Black gal sweet, Same like goodies w'at de w'ite folks eat; Ho my Riley! don't you take'n tell 'er name, En den ef sumpin' happen you won't ketch de blame; Hi my rinktum! better take'n hide yo' plum; Joree don't holler eve'y time he fine a wum. Den it's hi my rinktum! Don't git no udder man; En it's ho my Riley! Fetch out Miss Dilsey Ann! Ho my Riley!
"We'll go home through the Holler," said Phineas, after she had retied her veil and they were ready to start. "It's the long way round, ye know. I ain't goin' ter give ye no snippy little two-mile run, Dianthy, like Colonel Smith did," he finished gleefully. "No, of course not," murmured Diantha, smothering a sigh as the automobile started with a jerk.
I'll give it a try quicker'n you can spit and holler Howdy." As if he were one with the raw-boned bay he bestrode, he jumped his mount into the waiting pond. Still threshing about in the welter of flying water, he glanced back and raised a hand in a come-ahead signal. "Bottom's a mite missin', but the drop ain't so much.
He put me in mind of a pair of kitchen tongs, all legs, shaft and head, and no belly; a real gander gutted lookin critter, as holler as a bamboo walkin cane, and twice as yaller. He actilly looked as if he had been picked off a rack at sea, and dragged through a gimlet hole. He was a lawyer.
"And they let you come right up with them?" asked Ted. "Yep. I was right up on them before they got on to me." "They recognized you, eh?" "They did when I was about twenty feet away. Then I heard the old man holler, 'It's one o' them dern broncho boys." "And then what?" "Well, you see, I didn't have my gun out, and, as he says that, the jockey pulls and fires one shot, which landed in my arm.
Father-in-law would holler if he heard the car, but Bud did not intend that father-in-law should hear it. He would much rather run the gauntlet of that driveway then wait in the dark any longer. He remembered the slope down to the street, and grinned contentedly. He would give father-in-law a chance to throw a fit, next morning.
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