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"Well, my son, you've made a hard day's work for me," said Mrs. Clifford, smiling behind her coffee-cup, as eager little Katie swayed back and forth in her high chair. "You won't get me to tell, Gracie Clifford. She don't want nobody but Hollis and me; she thinks we're very 'cute." "Who? O, Aunt Louise, probably." "No, aunt Louise never! It's the auntie that lives to New York." "Sh, Topknot!"
It was so heady that it even had a topknot, and it served admirably to counteract the depressing effect of the Snimmy's speech. The next Toast was responded to by the First and Second Gunki; and its subject was, "Sara's Tears May There Be No Mad and Few Sad."
She found him fat and clumsy, and his hands were fat and clammy. Mr. Garfinkel had to show him again. Kedzie could not help murmuring up toward his chin, "I wish I could dance with you instead of him." Garfinkel muttered down into her topknot: "You can, girlie, but not before the camera. There's a reason. How about a little roof garden this evening, huh?" Kedzie sighed, "I'm sorry I can't."
A species of Touraco, new to me, has a broad yellow mask on the upper part of the bill and forehead; the topknot is purple, the wings the same as in other species, but the red is roseate. The yellow of the mask plates is conspicuous at a distance. A large callosity forms on the shoulders of the regular Unyamwesi porters, from the heavy weights laid on them.
"I say I'm sorry to hear it." "Glad to know that somebody sympathizes with me. Well, drop in some time and we'll take a chaw of tobacco and spit the fire out." Nothing could have been more expressive of a welcome to Wash's house. To invite a man to sit until the fire was extinguished with the overflow of the quid was with him the topknot of courtesy.
If he made any mistake she cried, "Hollis!" in a tone as sweet as a wind-harp, though she meant it to be terribly severe, adding to the effect by shaking the corn-silk on her head in high displeasure. If she could correct him she thought she had done as much good in the family as if she had behaved well herself. He received all rebukes very meekly, with a "Thank you, little Topknot.
The duel over, some two hundred warriors dashed up to recover the chieftain's body and to avenge his death. It was now Colonel Merritt's turn to move. He dispatched a company of soldiers to Will's aid, and then ordered the whole regiment to the charge. As the soldiers advanced, Will swung the Indian's topknot and war-bonnet which he had secured, and shouted, "The first scalp for Custer!"
"And we've got to hunt until we find it; is that the idea?" asked Mr. Parker. "Or until we see the phantom," added Tom, in a low voice. "Bless my topknot!" exclaimed Mr. Damon. "You don't mean to say you expect to see that ghost; do you Tom?" "Perhaps," answered the young inventor, and he did not add something else of which he was thinking. For Tom had a curious theory regarding the phantom.
"So he says," replied Tom. "I was wondering if you'd like to go, Mr. Damon." "Go? Why, bless my very topknot! Of course I would. I'll go with you only only," and he leaned forward and whispered cautiously, "don't speak so loudly. My wife might hear you!" "Doesn't she want you to go off in the airship any more?" asked Tom. "Well, she'd rather I wouldn't.
"'Haps I did go to aunt Marfie's, mamma; 'haps I was asleep!" "That's right, Miss Topknot," cried Horace; "now your brother'll carry you pickaback." A little while afterward Mrs. Clifford began a letter to her husband. "I am going to tell papa about his little girl that she is very well." "O, no, you needn't, mamma," said Flyaway, laughing; "papa knows it. I was well at home."
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