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Allfair, the insinuating Henry Finish, the merry Jack Hookey, the knowing Charles Trywit, and various others equally noted for their skill in living handsomely upon their own brains, and the personals of other people. To say truth, Paul, who at that time was an honest lad, was less charmed than he had anticipated by the conversation of these chevaliers of industry.
"Poh! crying about that?" said Horace; "you're a nice little girl if you do talk too much, so don't you cry." Horace rather enjoyed seeing Grace and Susy in tears, but could never bear to have Prudy cry. "I'll tell you what it is," said Horace, when Prudy's eyes were clear again, "I don't think I make much playing hookey."
"A smile, they ca' it," interposed T'nowhead. "I said a smile," continued Tammas. "Then there's her waist. I say naething agin her waist, speakin' in the ord'nar meanin'; but, conseedered critically, there's a want o' suppleness, as ye micht say, aboot it. "That was a pretty tiddy," said Hookey, "Ou, losh, ay! it made me a kind o' queery to look at her."
So wrote at least our friend Jools to his newspaper, the Horriflam; and of this back-parlor and baggytell-bord, of this counter, of this "Constantinople" Divan, he became almost as reglar a frequenter as the plaster of Parish Turk who sits smoking a hookey between the two blue coffee-cups in the winder.
He cursed his profession, which debarred him from the fellowship of such a man: he cursed his nose, which stood between him and the object of his adoration. Day after day had Mr. Hookey noticed the accomplished, the highly-gifted Merton; but it was only upon this particular morning that the recognition was mutual.
In comparison, the boy who won't study, who plays hookey on warm spring days in spite of his teacher's warnings, and who otherwise defies his teacher, is to be admired; he is preserving his individuality, his most important possession. It is largely the teacher's fault if children show no power to discriminate the values of facts to themselves, and to determine when they know a thing.
The Shaggy Man and Omby Amby were gathering firewood while Uncle Henry and Aunt Em sat in their camp chairs talking with the Wizard. They all ran forward to greet Dorothy, as she approached, and Aunt Em exclaimed: "Goodness gracious, child! Where have you been?" "You've played hookey the whole day," added the Shaggy Man, reproachfully.
"He wasn't there yesterday," said Nance. "Uncle Jed seen him with another boy, goin' out the railroad track." "I know it. He played hookey. He wrote a excuse an' signed his maw's name to it. Ike seen him do it. An' when the principal called up his maw this mornin' an' ast her 'bout it, she up an' said she wrote it herself."
"Well, you can either play hookey from church, or run away Sunday afternoons, or if you prefer and she is able, I will drive your grandmother over here and you can play pinocle in my study." "Then I do think she will live to be a hundred," said Annie with a peal of laughter. "Stop laughing and kiss me," said Von Rosen. "I seldom kiss anybody." "That is the reason."
It had never occurred to Jimmie that he might have a bare body, and might enjoy splashing about in cool water like a boy playing "hookey" from school. The saying is that familiarity breeds contempt, but for Jimmie it bred rapture. They walked home again, more slowly.
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