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"It's kind of old," the President admitted, "but there must be some style left to it. They're playin' it on Broadway right now. An' we'll give it on East Broadway just as soon as we can git ready. Me and Mamie went round to the library last night an' got it out. It's got a dandy lot of parts in it: more than this club will ever need.
She'd be over here in two jerks of a lamb's tail, and read the riot act, and scare me out of a year's growth. Hepsey's not a little thing to be playin' with." "Well, you just make a start. Anything to make a start, and the rest will come easy." "My, how the neighbors'd talk!"
"Here are my initials already cut!" Red could not believe him, until he had peered at Timothy's shell himself. And then he saw that what Johnnie had said was true. "There's a date, too," Johnnie pointed out. And he read it aloud. "That's more'n thirty years ago," he declared. But the red-haired boy laughed boisterously. "Shucks!" he jeered. "Somebody's been playin' a joke on you.
There was lots o' side shows, mermaids 'n' six-legged calves 'n' spotted girls, 'n' one thing 'n' 'nother, an' there was one o' them whirligig machines with a mess o' rocking'-hosses goin' round 'n' round, 'n' an organ in the middle playin' like sixty.
Then he'd come back modest to help his father run the zinc and tinplate trust, or something like that, and was payin' strict attention to business until he met Polly at a football game. After that he had only one aim in life, which was leadin' Polly up the middle aisle with the organ playin' that breath of Eden piece. Well, what was a fond mommer to do in a case like that?
He ran to his house; an' we spint the rest av the day carryin' the Lift'nint on our showlthers round the town, an' playin' wid the Burmese babies fat, little, brown little divils, as pretty as picturs.
Down the hill in the beautiful little valley, all amongst the fountains and windin' walks and white statutes, and green, green, grass, little children wuz a playin'. Sweet little toddlers, jest able to walk about, and bolder spirits, though small, a trudgin' about with little canes, and jumpin' round, and havin' a good time. They all had the beauty of childhood and happiness.
He was a perfessor, or something like that years ago, though his playin' is pretty shaky now." Douglas asked no more questions just then, but went on with his work, and meditated upon what he had heard. Perhaps this old man Strong was really the cause of much of the Church trouble in the parish.
"Greaser shooting-scrape, wasn't it?" "Yep! Well, I noticed first off that he's gettin fat; high-livin' fat, too, all in one spot, like he was playin' both ends ag'in the centre. Also he wore di'mon's fit to handle with ice-tongs. "Says I, lookin' at his side elevation, 'What's accented your middle syllable so strong, Mexico? "'Prosperity, politics, an' the Waldorf-Astorier, says he.
"But Captain Killam is with 'em," says I. "What use is he, I'd like to know? Torchy, we must go and find them." "But I don't know any more about runnin' a motor-boat than I do about playin' a trombone," I protests. "I do," says Vee. "I learned in Bermuda one winter. I have coffee and sandwiches here. They'll be hungry." "Better put in some cigars for Mr.
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