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"This is young Ingmar's polka," he called out. "Hoop-la! Now the whole house must dance for young Ingmar!" Two such pretty girls as Gertrude and Gunhild had to be in every dance, of course. Ingmar did not do much dancing. He stood talking most of the time with some of the older men at the farther end of the room.
Ah! she was a devil for a lark this lightly-clinging, caressing, blarneying, cooing creature up there! He remembered her now. Ha! very well then. Hoop-la! And suddenly leaping out like a rabbit, bucking, trotting hard, ambling lightly, "loping" on three legs and recreating himself, as only a California mustang could, the invincible Blue Lightning at last stood triumphantly upon the summit.
Until we reached them we were all equally demure and silent and swift. When we reached them I suddenly flung myself against the railings and roared out: 'Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Rule Britannia! Get your 'air cut. Hoop-la! Boo! It was a condition of no little novelty for a man in my position.
Hoop-la!" The brute gave a tearing lunge, and was out of the doorway like a shot before the old man could utter a word. Albert thrilled with pleasure as he felt the reins stiffen in his hands, while the traces swung slack beside the thills. "If he keeps this up he'll do," he thought. As he turned up at the gate Maud came gayly down the path, muffled to the eyes. "Oh, what a nice cutter!
His slender fingers guided a coil-wound frame from right to left. Backward and forward it glided, and as it moved the boyish "Hoop-la" rose and fell. Almost instantly it came to a standstill. "There! That's it!" he breathed. Then to Joe Marion, "It's a shame about those kids. They won't learn to play the game square. Don't know the rules and don't care. Think we can't catch 'em, I guess."
Charleton nodded. "I know! But you'll reach my state of don't give a hoop-la, when you're a little older. Wine and women and a good horse. They help." Douglas drew a shuddering breath. "Is that all you've found out? All?" "Of course, there's ambition," said Charleton. "I was ambitious, myself, once. You know my father was a college man and he wanted me to go back East to school. I almost went."
Th' Prisidint has ordhered th' lady to marry th' Chink. 'Th' Hoop-la Theatre was closed last night on complaint iv th' Jap'nese ambassadure that th' Fluff Opry Comp'ny was givin' a riprisintation iv Jap'nese charackter in pink robes instead iv th' seemly black derby hats, a size too large, Prince Albert coats, pear-colored pants, button shoes, sthring neckties, an' spectacles which is th' well-known unyform iv th' gloryous race.
The girl knew so much better what to do that he could be of no assistance. "Now, Pratt," she said, at last, "stand from under! Hoop-la!" She swung the looped lariat and brought it down smartly upon the beast's back as it struggled to its shaking legs. The steer bellowed, shook himself like a dog coming out of the water, or a mule out of the harness, and trotted away briskly.
He belongs to the oldest family in the world. Hoop-la!" The Boy jumped up on his stool and cracked his head against the roof; but he only ducked, rubbed his wild, long hair till it stood out wilder than ever, and went on: "Nicholas's forefathers were kings before Caesar; they were here before the Pyramids " The Colonel came round and hauled the Boy down. Potts was egging the miscreant on.
You shall take them, my leetle brother, for your journal; you shall announce in the big letter: 'Mooch Importance. The Aztec, He is Found. 'How He Look and Lif. 'The Everlasting Nigger. You shall sell many paper, and Urania shall have scoop in much spondulics and rocks. Hoop-la!
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