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Updated: June 26, 2025
Time was getting short, and it was no use wasting time on my crabby landlady. Yet what could I do without her? Who was to lend me a kettle, or a saucepan for the eggs, or a toasting-fork, or, for the matter of that, any of the material of war?
Sumptimes they would stay three or four days. And once in a while after one of these big doings Mistuh Smith would look worried, and we wouldn't get no meat and vary little of anything else for a long time. He would be crabby and beat us for any little thing. He used to tell my papa that he wouldn't have a d cent until he made some crops."
"Now we'll be off but first, do you mind if I let old Blades into our secret? She's a faithful old soul, though her temper's a bit crabby, and she'll be awfully pleased!" She assented, of course; and opening the door Owen led her across the dim hall towards the kitchen regions.
O. has something wrong, if you please, with his leg or his big toe gout or rheumatiz or something of that sort and 'e's been so crabby with it for the last day or so that to-night I said to 'im: 'No, my dear, you'll just take a glass of hot toddy, and go early and comfortable to your bed. Musical parties aren't in his line anyhow."
Even the master of Greenlawn opened his window and looked out and wondered, and at last crabby old Todkins, the gardener, opened his window, and even called the birch-broom boy up to listen; but they could not make out what the noise was. Nobody knew, and at last they began to be like the birds, rather frightened; for it was such a wild, dreadful cry as they had never heard before.
"Quick, this way!" cried Sam. "Do you see that carriage?" "Of course we do," answered Torn. "It contains Mrs. Stanhope and old Crabtree. They are going to drive off and get married against Dora Stanhope's wishes." "Phew!" came in a low whistle from the eldest of the Rover Boys. "We ought to stop this affair," went on Fred. "Old Crabby is going to get married!" came in a shout.
"Serves old Crabby right, for hitting the horse!" "Yes, but he and the lady may be killed!" Such were some of the cries. As soon as they could recover, the whole party made after the carnage, now disappearing around a bend. "They'll never get around the next time alive!" said Captain Harry Blossom, who was running beside Tom. Soon Dick joined the pair.
"And what good would that do, Jem?" "Not much to him, Mas' Don, because he'd be so precious sore afterwards, but it would do me good, and I would feel afterwards what I don't feel now, and that's cheerful. Never mind, sir, it'll all come right in the end. Nothing like coming out and sitting all alone when you're crabby. Wind seems to blow it away.
The sun cast red glows and violet shadows over the pier, and the pines murmured a soft little vesper hymn among themselves up on the beach, as the "New Camelia" swung herself in, crabby, sidewise, like a fat old gentleman going into a small door. There was the clang of an important bell, the scream of a hoarse little whistle, and Mandeville rushed to the gang-plank to welcome the outside world.
However worried and worrying and crabby he was in his ordinary clothes, in his football togs and on the field of battle he was the coolest, quickest, readiest, and cunningest general you could desire.
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