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Come back, I say!" "I won't come back!" shouted Isaac, from the distance. "I'm going home." And home he went. His new clothes were well spattered, and his red-top boots loaded with mud; but though he prided himself on keeping his apparel in neat condition, he thought he had got off cheaply on this occasion.
After a moment she eyed him shrewdly and continued: "You've got something on your mind besides that tangled mop of hair, big boy. Tell it to Red-Top." "Nothing much...." "Come on, 'fess up it's good for the soul. You can't fool your own wife, guy; I know your little winning ways too well." "Let me finish, woman; I was about to bare my very soul.
Samuel Parsons, Jr., Superintendent of Central Park, writes me: "The best grass-seeds for ordinary lawns are a mixture of red-top and Kentucky blue-grass in equal parts, with perhaps a small amount of white clover. On very sandy ground I prefer the Kentucky blue-grass, as it is very hardy and vigorous under adverse circumstances."
The pail of water was hardly set down in the sink when there came a knock at the door, and Cynthy found standing by it the strapped pantaloons, the "red-top" mustache, the watch-seals, and all the rest that went to make up the new singing-master.
What if we ran plump into the arms of that red-top who's laying for us?" "Well, then, let's drop down here behind a couple of these trees. Perhaps they'll go past and never get a peep of us," suggested the one who carried the double-barrel gun. "No use," chirped Thad, immediately. "And why not?" asked Maurice. "They saw us; they know we're here; that's why." "How do you know that?"
Turning, Maurice discovered a tumble-down shack, around which several dirty white children were playing. "What is it?" he asked; "didn't think you saw a ghost, again, eh?" Thad shook his head. "Nope. This was a live ghost, I reckon. And he had a fiery red-top in the bargain," he said positively. Immediately Maurice understood what ailed him.
As a matter of fact, as the boys learned later, none of the canoes ever reached the coast, being intercepted by river-tribes. "I vote for going ahead," cried Harry, catching the optimistic note that his brother's words conveyed. "That's the stuff," cried the young leader, "that is exactly what I was going to propose." "How about you, red-top?" asked Billy turning to Lathrop.
I think this no strange or unusual instinct, for I have seen many other people doing it, especially farmers around here, who go through the fields nipping the new oats, testing the red-top, or chewing a bit of sassafras bark.
'To hell, Becky, says he, and he laughs. 'From hell to hell. I'm sick to my teeth o' one, I'll try t'other' a way like that speaks he." Belward was impatient, and to hurry the story he made as if to start on. Becky, seeing, hastened. "Dear a' dear! The red-top were afore him, and I tryin' to make what become to him.
As a matter of fact he had been the butt of many jokes in school on account of his blazing red hair and in Africa the natives with their love for any gaudy color had already christened him Rwome Mogo or Red-Top. Of this, however, he was fortunately ignorant, as he might have been tempted to go out and dispatch half a dozen of them if he knew of their term for him.
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