co-o-o-l

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Well, what did he think of him?" asked Martha. "Oh, he called him everything. Mrs. Howarth heard it through her front blinds. It was terrible, she says. It's all over town now. Everybody knows it." "Didn't the doctor answer back?" "No! Mrs. Howarth she says he never said a word. He just walked down to his buggy and got in, and drove off as co-o-o-l. But Jake gave him jinks, by all accounts."

Stephen Crane - The Monster and Other Stories