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I just thought as I saw them old men foolin' around, 'It's hard for an old dog to learn new tricks, but an old man hasn't got sense enough not to try. And what do you think, one of them young nin-com-poops come and asked me if I wouldn't like to turkey trot. That's what he said, turkey trot. When I got my breath, I said, 'Young man, there's two things in life I ain't never prepared for.
I was just foolin' around to satisfy myself." "That satisfy me!" said Bonny pleasantly; and yet he was a trifle discomfited. He strolled away again and began to sing with a boyish show of indifference to having been called "sonny." "Oh, Sally is the gal for me! Oh, Sally's the gal for me! On moonlight night when the star is bright Oh" "Halloa! This some more your work, oncle?
"Pan, thet there girl is Louie Melliss!" ejaculated Moran. "Is it? Well, who in the deuce is she?" "Say, cowboy, quit your foolin'!" "Honest, I never saw or heard of the young lady till a few minutes ago. Ask Brown." "That's a fact," corroborated Brown, thus appealed to. "She's the belle of this hell. Sure, Smith, you savvy that?" "No," rejoined Pan bluntly.
"Pig-wigs Griggs," replied Rufe, unexpectedly. A glance of intelligence passed between the men. "Tell 'bout it, Rufe," said the tanner, suppressing all appearance of excitement. "Ye ain't goin' ter do nuthin' ter Pig-wigs fur foolin' with yer pit, ef I tell ye?" asked Rufe, quickly. "Naw, bub, naw. Which Griggs do ye call 'Pig-wigs?" "Why PIG-WIGS," Rufe reiterated obviously. Then he explained.
In his impatience George struck him a sharp blow across the mouth, exclaiming, "Stop your infernal noise. If you are strong enough to yell that way you can do something better. Stop, I say, or I'll be worse than two earthquakes;" and he shook Uncle Sheba's howl into staccato and tremolo notes. "Dere am no use foolin' wid dat niggah," said old Tobe.
Curious how big things hinge on little ones. Now Sue had no more idea o' gettin' a nomination t' th' legislature for me than that hen she was foolin' with this mornin'." Later, he remembered the thing that had worried him before the subject of Topeka came up. "Wonder what I done that set that youngster t' lookin' at me so funny?" Mrs.
I think Injuns wuz right when they put pow'ful spirits on these lakes, ready to make an end of anybody that come foolin' with thar region. The land fur me hereafter. Why, I wuz so skeered an' I had to work so hard I didn't hev time to git seasick." "But we have to go on the lake again, Jim," said Henry. "This is an island." Jim sighed.
And he says, "'Cause I'm scaret o' dyin'," says he; "I'm dreadful scaret o' dyin'." Well, what do you think? That posy jest laughed, the most cur'us little pinky-white laugh 't was, and it says, the Benjamin says: "Dyin'! Scaret o' dyin'? Why, I die myself every single year o' my life." "Die yourself!" says Reuben. "You 're foolin'; you're alive this minute."
Hucks, seating himself and filling a pipe. "First, who's in this?" "Me," answered Tilda. "Me and 'im." Mr. Hucks laid down his pipe, spread his fingers on the table, and made as if to rise. "I thought," said he, "you had more sense in you 'n an ord'nary child. Seems you have less, if you start foolin'." "I can't 'elp 'ow you take it," Tilda answered.
"Do you see that? and, bedad, ye'll drink it, and not be foolin', or I'd put the contents in your phiz," said he. Manuel took the glass, while the Dutchman stood chuckling over the very nice piece of fun, and the spice of Mr. Dunn's wit, as he called it. "Vat zu make him vat'e no vants too? You doz make me laugh so ven zu comes 'ere, I likes to kilt myself," said Drydez.
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