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Updated: June 7, 2025
By hokey, I wish he'd come back this afternoon, just to prove to you that it isn't safe to form an opinion without " "There you go, Tom Bingle, wishing as you always do that somebody would do something good just to show me that no one ever does anything bad. You dear old goose! Only the meanest man in the world could have the heart to rob you.
"What, by the holy hokey, and a'n't you?" cried the stranger, his rage giving way to the most lively transports; "Christian men!" he exclaimed in admiration, "and one of 'em a niggur, and two of em wimming! oh hokey! You're Capting Forrester, and I've heerd on you!
I held the cork down for a second with my thumb, while I uttered once more, in my most awesome tone, the mystic words: "Hokey pokey winky wum!" then I let it fly suddenly. The soda-water was well up. The cork bounded to the ceiling; the contents of the bottle spurted out over the place in the most impressive fashion. For a minute the Lamas drew back alarmed. The thing seemed almost devilish.
After some fumbling in his pocket, the old man produced a torn strip of yellow material with a brass button attached to it. "I wonder where that come from," he remarked, as he handed the fragment to Rob for his inspection. "Why, it's khaki," exclaimed Rob, as he felt it. "And, by hokey!" he ejaculated the next instant, "it's a piece of a Boy Scout uniform!"
This wallet's worth somethin'. I shall use it to keep my stiffkit's of Erie stock in, and all my other papers what aint of no use to anybody but the owner." "That's the kind of papers it's got in it now," said Frank, smiling. "That's so!" said Dick. "By hokey!" he exclaimed suddenly, "if there aint the old chap comin' back ag'in. He looks as if he'd heard bad news from his sick family."
Harry thrust his hand into the side pocket for the first time, and drew out a shabby leather wallet. "Perhaps there's money in it," Jeff suggested. The same thought had occurred to Harry. He hastily opened it, and his eyes opened wide with astonishment as he drew out a thick roll of bills. "By hokey!" said Jeff, "you're in luck. The robber took your pocketbook, and left his own.
"Give him a ha'porth o' hokey," said a derisive voice. "He hasn't got a tooth in his head, but it wants no chewing, hokey does na'." There was a general guffaw from the little rabble about the barrow. "Aye! Give us some o' that!" said the piping, silly voice of the old man. "But I mun' get to that there platform, I'm telling ye. I'm telling all of ye."
"O, I said over all the bad things I could think of; not the swearin' words, you know, but 'shucks, and 'gallus, and 'bully, and 'by hokey, and 'by George; and it's the last time." "O, I'm so glad, Horace!" cried Grace, clapping her hands and laughing; "and you won't blow any more powder?" Horace shook his head. "Nor run off again?
"Then, by Hokey! we won't come back for five years! How's that? That'll fool 'em, won't it? Say, this is great! Life is worth living after all. You'll go, won't you, Grace?" "I'd go to the end of the world with you, Hugh, but " "Oh, say you'll go! Now, listen to this," he urged, leaping to his feet. "We're going to be married anyway. We love one another.
"Let's shove in under the wharf a minute, Little. I want to say something to her. She's going to the post, apparently, and here it is long past midnight." "Go ahead," grunted Little. "Barry, if we ever come across one single man in this goose chase that isn't wrapped in mystery, I'll kiss him, by Hokey!"
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