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It was good to see Blythe laughing at Pee-wee's heroic effort to dispose of the commissary stores which his companions loaded upon him. It was a laugh of simple, genuine pleasure, almost childlike. "Don't drop the fly-paper in the flour," Roy shouted to Pee-wee in frantic warning, as Pee-wee wrestled valiantly under the load of boxes, packages and cans.
They'll probably put up a monument to me for startin' the thing; don't you think they will, Al? Eh? Don't you, now?" Albert and he walked up the road together. Laban told a little more of his battle with John Barleycorn. "I had half a dozen spells when I had to set my teeth, those I've got left, and hang on," he said. "And the hangin'-on wa'n't as easy as stickin' to fly-paper, neither.
True, they were now in the spirit of her party, Mack Sennett himself couldn't have asked a better interpretation of his own vital principles. But had they come to realize that this after all was the real thing, the true ideal? Warble feared. They were a stuck-up lot. The fly-paper had intrigued them all.
It was evidently as I had thought, and some secret meaning must lie buried in this strange combination of words. Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant'? Such a meaning would be arbitrary and could not be deduced in any way.
"Were the windfall apples being picked up for sauce; were the potatoes thick in the hills; was the corn tosselin' out; were they cuttin' the upper field; were they keepin' fly-paper laid out everywheres; were there any ants in the dairy; was the kindlin' wood holdin' out; had the bank sent the cowpons?" Poor Miranda Sawyer!
Giant's pantry and it is a wonder she ever got back down cellar. She is all rolled up in sticky fly-paper. And me with four sick babies on my paws!" "I'll come at once, Tim," agreed Dr. Whiskers. "Limpy-toes and I will soon fix things all right." He called Limpy-toes to help carry his heavy bag. "We'll not take the automobile," he decided. "The Giants might hear it chug-chug.
"United we stand, divided we sprawl," Roy said. "There are more of us, too, only they're not here. They're by the river." "I can give you a chance to earn some money if you really want to," the young man said. "Do you think you could stick?" "Our middle name is fly-paper," Roy informed him. "Like camping?" "Camping is named after us," Connie Bennett of the Elk Patrol said.
As he did so the sun threw a red beam into his eyes as though reminding him of the passing hours, and ducked behind the ridge which bounds Lonesome Prairie on the east. The afterglow filled sky and earth with a soft, departing radiance when he stopped again in front of the saloon. Old Doc was still gesticulating wildly, and the sheet of fly-paper still clung to the back of his coat.
"Well, well, this is more careless of Aunt Fanny than leaving the window unlocked. No wonder she left it unlocked, she wanted burglars to come in, and choke to death. I never saw such a lot of foolish food. Here's some raw macaroni, another toothsome dish nutmegs pepper sticky fly-paper, better and better. Perfectly delicious!" "Here you are!" said Ed Mason.
Does he? Ah, no! He springs into the air, decides between the two attractions, one of them, so deadly to his interests and drops upon the fly-paper to perish miserably! The future is in his hands no longer. We must lie upon the bed that we have made, nor can Providence change its unalterable decrees."
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