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"I'll admit he is a little bit self-centered." "What's that? Oh, you mean he's got ingrowin' feelings. Yes, everythin' that he has to do with is big. Why, John, he's the kind of a man that'd entertain his wife by talkin' about his corns, and think it interestin' because they was his'n." John laughed. "Perhaps if he was married and had a wife to tell him a few things " "John John!"
Even Miss Muggs, who wears a business face that would have a head undertaker lookin' frivolous, loosens up her mouth corners for a second; while as for some of the other self-startin' queens well, they had me rosy in the ears, all right. I hurries past to where Mr. Piddie is tryin' to make his ingrowin' dignity let loose its grip for a minute. "Ah!" says he. "Back from the sunny South, eh?
Farmer Dickson and three neighbours were comparing bottles of Dr. Crip's Celebrated Healing Mixture. "Anyhow," said one, "I'll swear his nibs sold me this ez a cure fer pip in chickens." "And he told me this was a dead sure cure fer corns 'n' ingrowin' toe-nail," ejaculated another. "I bought this bottle fer me diabetes," explained Coleman. "He said it ud root out diabetes in nine hours."
"Y'got the price?" "I ain't got even the makin's only an ingrowin' cravin' fer spiritual licker an' a hankerin' to see America first " "That hoss," the proprietor jerked a thumb toward the open door beyond which the big rangy black pawed fretfully at the street. "Mebbe we might make a trade. I got one good as him 'er better. It's that sor'l standin' t'other side of yourn."
But," he added, "as far as I can see, the boy did what he thought was the best thing to do. And," the twinkle reappeared in the gray eyes, "you sartinly did get your lumber when 'twas promised." Mr. Calvin stiffened. He had his good points, but he suffered from what Laban Keeler once called "ingrowin' importance," and this ailment often affected his judgment. Also he had to face Mrs.
"Much obliged for making the try, Torchy," says Brink. "You had your nerve with you, I'll say." "Easiest thing I do, old son," says I. "Besides, his ain't a case of ingrowin' grouch, you know." "I was just getting that hunch myself," says Brink. "Shouldn't wonder but he was quite a decent old boy when you got under the crust. If I was only of some use around the place I'll bet we'd get along fine.
He is sufferin' from a terrible complaint, boys, an' it makes him that cross a bear would run away from him, I'm thinkin'!" "What's the trouble with him?" "He has what the doctors do be callin' an ingrowin' grouch," replied Danny soberly.
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