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"Hi, thar, Boscoe Doldrum," she shouted in her deep bass voice. "Yo! Jemina Tantrum. Gosh ding yo'!" he returned. She continued her way to the cabin. The stranger was talking to her father. Gold had been discovered on the Tantrum land, and the stranger, Edgar Edison, was trying to buy the land for a song. He was considering what song to offer. She sat upon her hands and watched him.
"It does beat all, pa," continued Grandma Keeler, "how't all the horses you've ever had since I've known ye have always been took lame Sunday mornin'. Thar' was 'Happy Jack, he could go anywhers through the week, and never limp a step, as nobody could see, and Sunday mornin' he was always took lame! And thar' was 'Tantrum' "
'I have no such purpose. I have told you I did mean it. Do you wish to know why I meant it, you rash and headstrong old woman? 'After all, you only restore me my own words, she said, struggling with her indignation. 'Yes. 'This is why, then. Because you hadn't cleared his father to him, and you ought to have done it. Because, before you went into any tantrum about yourself, who are
And is not this all my fault?" "It's because you are such a kind-hearted person, aunt," smiled Pao-ch'ai, "that such ideas cross your mind! But she didn't jump into the well when she was in a tantrum; so what must have made her do so was that she had to go and live in the lower quarters. Or, she might have been standing in front of the well, and her foot slipped, and she fell into it.
"He air gone to prison," put in Ezra opening and shutting his eyes, and licking his thick lips with his red tongue. "He air where ye won't see him to scratch his face when ye goes into a tantrum. He air in prison." The bronze eyes widened and lengthened till the very fear in them startled her companions.
I'll take it upstairs. I like the `awful row. I put it here because I thought it would be a pleasure to you as well as to myself. I'm sorry." "What a tantrum! Evidently the clock is a tender point. Better leave it here and stop the gong. It will keep you awake all night." "I won't stop the gong! I I like to be waked!" declared Claire obstinately.
"His advance seems almost abnormal. But of course he is doing now of his own free will what we could not make him do before. Still, he excites himself very easily and nothing must be said to irritate him." Mary and Colin were much alarmed and talked together anxiously. From this time dated their plan of "play actin'." "I may be obliged to have a tantrum," said Colin regretfully.
Darcy, or she might have been screaming yet. I never saw a child go into such a sudden tantrum." The answer came in jerks also, for it took a vigorous trotting of the knees to keep such a heavy child as Georgina on the bounce. And in order that his words might not interfere with the game he sang them to the tune of "Ride a Cock Horse."
Directly, however, the bedroom door shut behind them, she fell into a tantrum, a fit of sullen rage, which she accentuated till Evelyn could not but notice it. "What's the matter with you? Didn't you enjoy yourself?" "No, I hated it," returned Laura passionately. Evelyn laughed a little at this, but with an air of humorous dismay. "I must take care, then, not to ask you out again."
"But Mr. Wilmarth?" "I hate the sight of him, and Marcia used to say everything about him. He's humpbacked or something, and looks like a tiger. Well, I do wish her joy if ever he should get in a tantrum. You see, after all, the idea of bringing such a man in the family. Floyd's marriage was bad enough." "But your petite sister-in-law does improve wonderfully."
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