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Updated: May 4, 2025
There's going to be fun at Todsmoor, and I don't want any Millsborough back-talk mixed up with it. Look out of that window while I physic him. It's not nice to watch." It was nasty enough to hear, thought Amaryllis. By the time it was over the train was slowing down. Before it stopped Dick was out on the platform, and in two strides had caught the guard. "There's been an accident.
All that made me want to cry was that in these papers were faithfully reproduced all the war-cries and "back-talk" of the Palmer House bar, the slang of the barber-shops, the mental elevation and integrity of the Pullman car porter, the dignity of the dime museum, and the accuracy of the excited fish-wife. I am sternly forbidden to believe that the paper educates the public.
"Yes, you would not." "Little devil!" "Quit calling me that." But she colored as if his tribute had been a sheath of lilies. They veered a corner sharply, skidding on the wet asphalt and all but grazing the rear wheels of a recreant taxicab. "Gad, George! you black devil you, why don't you watch out what you're doing?" "But, suh, I " "None of your black back-talk." "Jerry!"
The old plainsman, scarred veteran of many a frontier brawl, was too quick tempered and too proficient with his six-shooter to take back-talk from the despised sheep herders or to bandy words with a man he feared and hated. Wade was becoming convinced that Moran was responsible for the invasion of the range, although still at a loss for his reasons.
But the Rat kindly looked in another direction, and presently the Mole's spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance.
When a lady goes to smilin' over the telephone, an' tellin' the butcher that she don't know one cut from another but she'll trust him to send her a nice piece, you kin count on it she's goin' to git a gristle. Compliments an' smiles may git some things, but it takes rowin' an' back-talk to git a good beefsteak!" "I think I'll send you to the grocery to-day, Myrtella, it it may rain."
"That'll do, Sonny!" rasped Barret, who was strong on discipline and who fancied he had witnessed the climax of a merry game between boy and dog, "I seen what I seen. And I don't aim to take no back-talk from a wall-eyed, long-legged, chuckle-headed brat; that's hired to help his poor old dad and who spends his time cuttin' monkeyshines with a dorg.
"I don't like to quit when you need me, but," he waved the rip-saw in a significant gesture, "if that Oregonian gives me any more back-talk I aims to cut him up in chunks." It was the first time Bruce had countermanded one of Jennings's orders but now he backed Woods up.
"Here, you black rascal!" the lad angrily exclaimed. "What do you mean by blocking the sidewalk that way? It's against the law, and I could have you arrested for that." "No, could yo' really now?" asked Eradicate drawlingly for he was not afraid of Andy. "Yes, I could, and don't you give me any of your back-talk! Get that brush out of the way!" and Andy kicked the long handle.
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