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I'd be ten times as cranky as he is, if I was pestered by every old podogger that's got stuff to sell." She closed the door, and addressed the house, apparently empty and still. "He's gone!" she said, speaking rather loudly, "Don 'Lonzo, he's gone, and you can come out. I expect you're hid somewheres about here, for I didn't hear you go out." There was no sound.
"I'm looking the motor over, first of all. Perhaps it's a small matter, and I can fix it up. Sometimes these new machines act a bit cranky. Want of oil will even bring about trouble. Jerry, you take a look with me. Two heads are often better than one," said Frank. "Can we do anything?" questioned Bluff. "Just try and see if you can hear a sound like water washing up on the beach.
Mary and Billie regarded her with compassion. How little romance there was in a Japanese girl's life! O'Kami San, so young and pretty and charming, too, was about to enter into years of drudgery perhaps; the wife of a cranky old man, and here she was accepting her fate as calmly as a novitiate about to take the vows for life and enter a convent. "New husband much rich," she said. "Much old.
"I beg your pardon?" "Would your family object?" "There is only one person who would mind," reflected the Crown Prince, aloud, "and she will be angry anyhow. I do you think your mother will be willing?" "Willing? Sure she will! My governess but I'll fix her. She's a German, and they're always cranky. Anyhow, it's my birthday. I'm always allowed a guest on birthdays."
"I'm not going to pay you one damned cent, an' the only cows I'll leave are the dead ones an' if I could take them with me I'd do it. An' I'm not going around the fence, neither." "Oh, yes; you are. An' yo're going to pay," snapped Cranky Joe. "Take it out of the price of two hundred dead cows an' gimme what's left," Hopalong retorted. "It'll cost you nine of them twelve men to pry it out'n me."
"Why how cranky you are, man! If you hate me, hate me in God's name, but don't be so absurd as to forget you're a man, and to act like a child. I listened to you and why can't you listen to me?" "Well, spake on, I'll listen."
Andrew stood for a moment quite still. His first emotion was one of dismay, and Cecil, noticing it, laughed at him. "You can go ahead with your little flirtation," he remarked. "I had quite forgotten that. You needn't consider me. I haven't a chance with Miss Jeanne. She's too cranky a young person for me. I like something with a little more go in it."
Josiah thought I meant her when I spoke on't, and said the idee of anybody worshippin' that cranky old maid, but as I told him it wuz another old maid or bachelor maid, as I spoze she ort to be called, some years older than Diana Henzy. Sez I, "This Diana wuz a great case to live out-doors in groves and mountains." Sez I, "Some say she was the daughter of Zeus, and twin of Apollo."
Yo' see, Boucher's been pulled down wi' his childer, and her being so cranky, and a' they could pawn has gone this last twelvemonth.
One roll had a slightly musty smell, and Gibson said to me, "This roll's rotten; shall I chuck it away?" "Chuck it away," I said; "why, man, you must be cranky to talk such rubbish as throwing away food in such a region as this!" "Why," said he, "nobody won't eat it." "No," said I, "but somebody will eat it; I for one, and enjoy it too."
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