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"Five dollars!" snickered a Crane boy, diving through the crowd, and proceeding to stand on his head in a cleared space beyond. "That's wuth less'n Miss Lucindy's hoss!" Hiram Cole considered again, one lean hand stroking his cheek. "Five fifty " he announced. "Well, I guess 'tis five hunderd, arter all! Anybody must want to invest, though, to put all their income into perishable cow-flesh!"
"Show him in." The inky snickered and hurried out. He could be heard saying with importance, "This way, sir. Look out for that press, sir. It's very dark in here, sir." And then, like a smart flunky in a house of condition, he appeared again at the door and announced "Senator Hannibal St. John." Aladdin sprang up.
"Now I ask you, I ask you without prejudice an' without favour, what has Man the Oppressor ever done for you? Are you not inalienably entitled to the free air o' heaven, blowin' acrost this boundless prairie?" "Hev ye ever wintered here?" said the Deacon, merrily, while the others snickered. "It's kinder cool." "Not yet," said Boney.
And here's a bum little furniture store it wouldn't cost more 'n about ten times all I've got to buy one of those Morris chairs. Oh Gooooooosh, won't these houses ever stop? Say, that must be a jitney. The driver snickered at me. Will the whole town be onto me? Milt, you're a kind young fellow, and you know what's the matter with Heinie's differential, but they don't need you here.
We had to bear it, but we snickered ourselves when the man Will called "Elder Green Persimmon," because when he prayed his mouth went inside out, came mincing into the room, and as he passed the valance and got a pinch, jerked out a sour-grape sneeze: "Mercy on us! I thought I was bitten by that fierce dog of yours, Mrs. Cody; but it must have been a burr." Then the "experiences" would begin.
Observant always, and quick to see the right thing to do, William hoped that "Mister Watson and his wife would live happy ever after, and," he concluded, with a smile that was full of confidence, "I nearly snickered once when the marriage was on.
"'I want a thousand papers! he gasped. 'Pay you to-morrow! This was more than three times as many as he had taken out before, so the clerk refused to trust him. "'Where's Mr. Storey? demanded the lad. The clerk snickered as he jerked his head toward where the managing editor was talking with a 'big' man from out of town.
He's beginning to say funny things, and they're generally at your expense, and one or two people hereabouts have snickered at you already." "What do you mean?" said Napoleon, with a frown. "What has the boy said about me?"
Boris paled. He was about to flare up. "I beg your pardon, uncle," he began, but then he shrugged his shoulders and smiled ironically. Both Billy and Marion, who sat opposite him, blushed and looked anxiously at him. The two children farther down the table snickered. There was an awkward pause, until the professor hastily began to speak again.
He looked in at the door and snickered, then in at the window, then peeked down from between the rafters and cachinnated till his sides must have ached; then struck an attitude upon the chimney, and fairly squealed with mirth and ridicule. In fact, he grew so obstreperous, and so disturbed our repose, that we had to "shoo" him away with one of our boots.
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