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"Then ye'd no call to come here at all," interrupted Elleney indignantly. "Whisht! Don't be bitin' the nose off me that way. Ye little schemer, ye know very well it's yerself that carries all before ye. Sure, who'd have eyes for any one else when you were to the fore?" "Och, Mr. Brian, it's a shame for ye!" cried Elleney, with flashing eyes. "Ye've no right to come givin' me impidence that way.
"Sorry, major," says I, "but Mr. Ellins won't be in until 10:30." "Hah!" says he, like bitin' off a piece of glass. "And who are you, lieutenant!" "Special detail from the Ordnance Department, sir," says I. "Oh, you are, eh?" he snorts. "Another bomb-proofer! Well, tell Mr.
I don't, nor you needn't, no more than other folk; for the tongue, be it never so bitin', it can't draw blood, mind ye, and hard words break no bones; and I'll make a cup o' tea ye like a cup o' tea and we'll take a cup together, and ye'll chirp up a bit, and see how pleasant and ruddy the sun shines on the lake this evening."
And I thought to meself: Well, you've got to finish it, or it'll go bitin' somebody, for sure! But when I come to it with my hammer, the dog it got up an' you know how it is when there's somethin' you've 'alf killed, and you feel sorry, and yet you feel you must finish it, an' you hit at it blind, you hit at it agen an' agen.
The eyes of the Swede grew hard and narrow. "What's bitin' you? I've told you my story." "Some of it. Not all of it." "Whadjamean?" "You told me what you saw from the fire escape of the Wyndham, but you didn't tell what you saw from the fire escape of the Paradox." "Who says I saw anything from there?" "I say so." "You tryin' to hang this killin' on me?" demanded Olson angrily.
"Why, W.B.Y. is for 'What's bitin' you? Know the answer?" "If you can't show your I.W.W., you can beat it," said the tramp. "Tryin' to kid me?" "Not so as your mother would notice. Got your card?" Waco finally realized that they meant business. "No, I ain't got no I.W.W. card. I'm a bo, same as you fellas. What's bitin' you, anyway?" "Let's give him the third, fellas."
"I've noticed," replied Hardy, "that you sheepmen get in a hurry once in a while. You can't stop to knock on a door so you kick it open; can't stop to go around a ranch, so you go through it, and so on." "Ah," observed Swope slyly, "so that's what's bitin' you, eh? I reckon you must be that new superintendent that Jim was tellin' about." "That's right," admitted Hardy, "and you're Mr.
Ma Pulsifer is bitin' her lip; but she's right there with the soothin' words. "Please, Dear," says she, "let me go. They want you to finish your story." It was a happy touch, that last. Pa Pulsifer recovers his napkin, settles back in his chair, and goes on with the tale, while Mother slips out quiet.
"'Dey er bitin' mighty hard, Brer Rabbit. "'Tu'n over on de udder side, Brer Wolf. "'W'at dat I feel now, Brer Rabbit? "'Still you feels de fleas, Brer Wolf. "'Dey er eatin' me up, Brer Rabbit, en dem wuz de las words er Brer Wolf, kase de scaldin' water done de bizness.
"Addicks an' Bowden they done the best; Abel an' me we had but a slim fare. We went out 'arly, but not so 'arly as sometimes; looked like a poor mornin'. I got nine haddick, all small, and seven fish; the rest on 'em got more fish than haddick. Well, I don't expect they feel like bitin' every day; we l'arn to humor 'em a little, an' let 'em have their way 'bout it.
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