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Updated: May 5, 2025
Withdrawn into a group for themselves worked a body of Chinese, in loose blue blouses, flappy blue leg-bags and huge conical straw hats. They, too, fossicked and re-washed, using extravagant quantities of water. Thus the pale-eyed multitude worried the surface, and, at the risk and cost of their lives, probed the depths.
"If you had to go to church with a great, big, flappy, floppy hat on, that joggled your ears all the time, 'cause the roses were so heavy, and if you had to be careful to keep your pink organdie clean for next Sunday, and if you had a teasy cousin, who, likely as not, would take hold of your arm, and crunch your sleeves all down, most probably you'd have walked all by yourself, too, and tried to keep yourself respectable so 'Liza wouldn't scold.
Like most middle aged, well-to-do bourgeois his attire was composed of a pair of light trousers, slightly baggy at the knee, and a bit flappy about the leg; a black cutaway jacket and a white piqué waistcoat. This classic costume usually comports a panama hat and an umbrella.
"Maybe it'll bite you. Did it have a mouth, Mun Bun?" "I didn't see its mouth, but it had a flappy tail." "I'm going to call mamma!" exclaimed Vi, "Don't you go, Rose!" But Rose was already halfway to the shore of the lake. In another moment she called out: "Oh, I see it! I see it!" "What is it?" asked Mun, made brave by what he saw Rose doing, and he followed her. Vi and Margy trailed after them.
Mother took a week to pack, and unpack, to go panting down-stairs to the corner drug-store for new tubes of tooth-paste and a presentable sponge, to remend all that was remendable, to press Father's flappy, shapeless little trousers with the family flat-iron, to worry over whether she should take the rose-pink or the daffodil-yellow wrapper which had both faded to approximately the same shade of gray, but which were to her trusting mind still interestingly different.
Flappy had studied this question more'n airy other man I ever see, an' it was edicatin' to hear him lecture on it.
They wanted his mind to be utterly free from care, so that he could give his full attention to tackin' up a Diamond Dot record that would arouse the envy of the entire West, an' Flappy was in fine shape to do it. We all started out to find Dick, whether he was still hidin' around the ranch or had started to hike; but it was Barbie herself who found him.
An' then he quit lookin' defiant, an' he calmed down some; an' pretty soon we took in the dinner. "She was sittin' up in front of her two pillows, pretty as a picture. An' she was in one o' the things I ain't ever see outside a store window. Lord! it was all the colour o' roses, with craped-up stuff like the bark on a tree, an' rows an' rows o' lace, an' long, flappy ribbon.
When Judge Priest, on this particular morning, came puffing into his chambers at the courthouse, looking, with his broad beam and in his costume of flappy, loose white ducks, a good deal like an old-fashioned full-rigger with all sails set, his black shadow, Jeff Poindexter, had already finished the job of putting the quarters to rights for the day.
That was the very day 'at Flappy was to start off on his periodical, an' he had made all his preparations so that everything would be in apple-pie order.
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