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The truth is just this: as you sow so shall you reap. I was sowing when I was drinking out of the pail of beer, and I surely did reap the drunkard's portion misery. I was a great hand at playing hookey that is, staying away from school and not telling your parents.
"Does it explain anything?" I asked. "It would explain everything," Nares replied, "but for the steam-crusher. It'll all tally as neat as a patent puzzle, if you leave out the way these people bid the wreck up. And there we come to a stone wall. But whatever it is, Mr. Dodd, it's on the crook." "And looks like piracy," I added. "Looks like blind hookey!" cried the captain.
"Ef I'd known she was comin' back I'd" he stopped and brought his sunburnt fist against the seam of his trousers with a boyish gesture, "I'd hev jist" "What?" said the master sharply. "I'd hev played hookey till she left school agin! It moutn't hev bin so long, neither," he added with a mysterious chuckle. "That will do," said the master peremptorily.
"Milt Waring and I grew up in the same town together went to the same school, played both hookey and hockey together. Why, I know him inside and out and I tell you he's as straight as a string." "Your simile is unfortunate, Ben. The straightest string can be tied in knots." "I see by this morning's papers that Rives has been released from the penitentiary," interposed their host.
Didn't I say I'd marry you if you was playin' hookey from the graveyard? Wasn't that the answer I give you even when you was strong as a whole team?" "I didn't have no right to you, baby the swellest little peach in the store! I I didn't have no right to you! Vi-dee, what's the matter? You look like you got the horrors the horrors, hon! Vi-dee!" "Oh, don't, Harry, don't. I I can't stand it, hon.
In 1914 he was elected to the Lieutenant-Governorship, and an amusing anecdote is told of how he became "peeved" when he discovered that several of the house members were playing "hookey" in order to avoid voting on a bill, and sent the State police after them.
But after a few weeks the newness of work wore off and I wished I was back at school again, where I could play hookey and have fun with the other fellows. I had lots of time on my hands, and you know the saying, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." He certainly found plenty for me. The boss was a great smoker and bought his cigars by the box.
"Mary was spunky as weel as a beauty," said Hookey, "an' that's the kind I like. Lads, what a persuasive tid she was!" "She got roond the men," said Hendry, "ay, she turned them roond her finger. That's the warst o' thae beauties." "I dinna gainsay," said T'nowhead, "but what there was a little o' the deevil in Mary, the crittur." Here T'nowhead chuckled, and then looked scared.
"I conseeder her a beauty," said Pete, aggressively. "She's a' that," said Hendry. "A' I can say," said Hookey, "is 'at she taks me most michty." "She's no a beauty," Tammas maintained; "na, she doesna juist come up to that; but I dinna deny but what she's weel faured." "What taut do ye find wi' her, Tammas?" asked Hendry.
"Oh, well, if that is all," he said, "I object strenuously to your playing pinocle with your grandmother on Sunday. The only way you can manage will be to play hookey from church." "I need not do that always," said Annie. "My aunts take naps Sunday afternoons, but I am sure grandmother could keep awake if she thought she could be wicked."
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