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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Remember when Dan et the bad berries last summer?" "And the time we were so scared over that bell ringing in the house," grinned Peter. "And the Judgment Day," added Dan. "And the time Paddy was bewitched," suggested Sara Ray. "And when Peter was dying of the measles," said Felicity. "And the time Jimmy Patterson was lost," said Dan. "Gee-whiz, but that scared me out of a year's growth."
He waited where he was for some moments. Then he turned back into the room and stared disgustedly about him. "If a feller can't fix two kiddies right an' cook 'em pap without mussin' things till you feel like dying o' colic at the sight, he ain't fit to rob hogs of rootin' space," he muttered. "I'd Gee-whiz! Ther's that doggone milk raising blue murder wi' "
I feel almost as if I were a Navy officer myself, and I mean to make the most of the sensation. Say, Hal, wouldn’t it be fine if we really did belong to the Navy?” “Gee-whiz!” murmured young Hastings, his cheeks glowing and his eyes snapping. “If we only belonged to the old Flag for life, and knew that we were practising on a boat like this as a part of the preparation for real war when it came?”
They did not "hand a lemon" or "skiddoo" in those days; American slang changes as quickly as thieves' slang, and only "Gee!" and "Gee-whiz!" seem to be permanent. There were very few theaters in New York when we first went there. All that part of the city which is now "up town" did not exist, and what was then "up" is now more than "down" town. The American stage has changed almost as much.
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