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Updated: June 26, 2025
I guess I didn't sleep very well that night, for I had dreams of Uncle Peter chasing me with a club all over a theatre and making me hop every seat in the orchestra, while Ma'moiselle Dodo sat perched on the balcony rail and screamed, "You betcher sweet!" The following day Bunch and I attended to the shipping of all the scenery and props and trick stuff, and we were two busy lads, believe me.
Big Junko laughed self-consciously but without the slightest resentment. "That's all right," said he, "but you betcher life I don't blow this stake." "I've heard that talk before," shrugged Thorpe. "Yes, but this is different. I'm goin' to git married on this. How's THAT?" Thorpe, his attention struck at last, stared at his companion.
"Gee!" was Peter's habitual comment after the telling, "maybe it wasn't swell havin' 'em know us names an' all. Betcher life we wasn't cases to them no, siree!" It was Susan who remembered best how everything looked Susan, who had never been to the country in all her starved little life that is, if one excepts the times Margaret MacLean had taken her on the Ward C "special."
She parked her little blue car directly across the street from the Rye House and began the business of shopping. "What you reckon that Judy gal is up to now?" queried Judge Middleton. "I betcher she's goin' in the butcher shop." "I betcher she ain't," said Pete Barnes for the sake of argument. "I betcher she's going in the Emporium to buy herself a blue dress." "Maybe," ruminated Major Fitch.
"You betcher," he asserted briefly. Mr. Burrows looked at his watch. "Time you were starting, Bugs." The coming champion removed his gaze from Sally's face, into which he had been peering in a conquering manner, and cast a disparaging glance at the audience. It was far from being as large as he could have wished, and at least a third of it was composed of non-payers from the newspapers.
"No, of course not," says our captain's yeoman, and rubs his fat chin. "Of course not." "But if you do," says Dalton, and sets his head sideways to see how Reginald was taking it "if you do, you'd make a hit with your skipper, you betcher only he'd never tell you." "Why wouldn't he, if he liked it?" "Why? 'Twouldn't be regulations. And now, you fellows, beat it.
Maguinness and descended into the court. Here he found two other boys involved in a difficulty. Things had gone so far that Bootsey saw it would be a waste of time to try to ascertain the merits of the controversy his only and obvious duty being to hasten the crisis. "Hi! Shunks!" he cried, "O'll betcher Jakey kin lick ye!"
Maybe she'd never been caught in the open seas on a night like this; well, maybe not, but you betcher she wasn't afraid of it. Straight out from the breakwater Baldwin kept her going. Slow, heavy, pounding work; and now two hours gone, and no light-ship yet.
"Ain't funny not when I tell you Fred De Garmo's handing out the invites, and he sure aims to have plenty of excitement he-he! Betcher Manley won't be able to set on the wagon seat an' hold the lines t'-morrow not if he comes out when he's called and does the thing proper he-he! An' if he don't show up, they aim to jest about pull the old shebang down over his ears.
The boys worked over the exhausted lad some moments, and then he opened his eyes. "Now for the love of Mike!" exclaimed Tommy, "don't look around and say 'Where am I? The correct thing to say in these modern days is 'Vot iss? Do you get me, Thede?" "Why, it's Tommy!" said the boy. "Betcher life!" returned Tommy. "Did you run all the way up here from Clark street?
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