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"I thought I'd jis look over sis's things, and get 'em straightened up. But I'm gwine, Mas'r George, gwine to have four dollars a week; and Missis is gwine to lay it all up, to buy back my old man agin!" "Whew!" said George, "here's a stroke of business, to be sure! How are you going?" "Tomorrow, wid Sam.
Just then, Minty entered on the scene, her round eyes wide open with astonishment, and Lyle entering an instant later from the breakfast room, Maverick slunk away to his work. Meanwhile, the other boarders were gathering in the breakfast room, Miss Gladden and Rutherford being the last to enter. "Whew!" exclaimed the latter, rubbing his hands, "this seems a little wintry, doesn't it?
Though Oscar did not guess it, in those last few moments he had fought; a bitter fight with himself. He interrupted his cousin: "The snake isn't mine. I didn't buy it. It's Lady Margaret Vincent's." He went on to tell of his finding the snake. "Whew!" whistled Oscar. "You're bright to guess all that; probably 'tis hers. And you didn't tell Aunt Nora or Aunt Nellie?"
"Whew!" ejaculated Nicholas, fanning himself with his hat. "I'd rather dig a tunnel through a mountain than have to do that again. I decided I had to do it and I have been working it over in my mind for days. First I thought of Miss Campbell, but she would have gone off her head about it. Miss Brown wouldn't have understood, either. She would have been angry, I suppose.
'It is out of my power, sir; they are not known to me, since you must needs know so much of my private affairs. The Justice collected a great AFFLATUS in his cheeks, which puffed them up like those of a Dutch cherub, while his eyes seemed flying out of his head, from the effort with which he retained his breath. He then blew it forth with, 'Whew! Hoom poof ha! not know your parents, youngster?
"There are too many chances to make it worth much more merely to get the other fellow out of the way. Sometimes, though, I've paid as high as fifteen hundred for a case." "Fifteen hundred!" exclaimed I. "Yes, and got a verdict of nineteen thousand, of which I pocketed ninety-five hundred and four hundred dollars costs besides." "Whew!" I whistled.
Dale; and the Papisher went and sat with him and his mother a whole hour t' other day; and that boy is as deep as a well; and I seed him lurking about the place, and hiding hisself under the tree the day the stocks was put up, and that 'ere boy is Lenny Fairfield." "Whew," said the squire, whistling, "you have not your usual senses about you to-day, man.
"Whew!" thought the young man. "Plotting, are they? Well, I'll see how good I am at counterplotting."
"I say, Missis, what did you do? What's that stuff? Whew, it's pepper!" the boys exclaimed. Miss Laura sat down on a flat rock, and looked at them with a very pale face. "Oh, boys," she said, "why did you make those dogs fight? It is so cruel. They were playing happily till you set them on each other. Just see how they have torn their handsome coats, and how the blood is dripping from them."
"Whew, but they are sour," said Tommy, and made a wry face, but he did not insist upon her having one. That was the worst of it, the thirst, for there was no fresh water. "Let's explore," said Tommy, as the afternoon waned and no relief came. "Maybe we will find a house back there somewhere." But Judy shook her head.
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