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Updated: May 16, 2025
The last party on the list was a little gal that had been poppin' up an' down like a prairie-dog, fearin' she was goin' to git left, and when at last I sings out 'Annabella Angelina Hugginswat! here she come, her eyes snatched wide open by the two little pigtails that stuck out behind, walkin' knock-kneed and circular, as some little girls does, and stiff er'n a poker in her j'ints from scart-to-death and gladness.
"You knock-kneed little Jew," said Kettle truculently, "do you think I'm giving myself the luxury of letting out at a shipowner, after knuckling down to the breed through all of a weary life, unless I knew my ground? I've done with ships and the sea for always, and if you give me any more of your lip, I'll burn your office down and you in it."
'I stuck the fool, he went on, 'with every old screw in the country. I got broken-winded mares from the ploughs. I collected a regular hospital of spavined, knock-kneed beasts, and he took them from me without a word at thirty pounds apiece. It would have been all right if I had gone no further. But, hang it all! I got to the end of my tether.
One day when the corn was in the milk that season which the Indians celebrate with their famous corn dance we saw Wilomene White streaking across the plains on old Buckskin, her knock-kneed pony.
"A set down," replied he, very angrily, "a set down, do you call it! I had rather a thousand times he had knocked me down an ugly, cross, knock-kneed, hook-nosed son of a b-t-h!" The officers almost split their sides with laughing. The story soon took wind; and the poor lieutenant did not hear the last of it for many a day.
The cattle wandered as before except that knock-kneed little calves trailed beside their lean mothers and clamored for full stomachs. The Cross L cattle bore the brunt of the range famine, because Eagle Creek Smith was a stockman of the old school. His cattle must live on the open range, because they always had done so.
It has ended as would end the experiment of a man seeking to raise a breed of winning race-horses out of unexercised, short-winded, knock-kneed mares. No, more disastrously!
But when did you ever know a half-breed, Duke, who could bear civilization? For that mat ter, they are worse than the savages themselves! Did you notice how knock-kneed he stood, Elizabeth, and what a wild look he had in his eyes? I heeded not his eyes, nor his knees, which would be all the better for a little humbling.
Gay was even more pale and weaker eyed than ever when he came into the apartment, his motor coat seeming to hang on his knock-kneed, narrow-chested self. It seemed Trudy had not been really well for some time. She was such an ambitious little girl, he explained, excusing himself in the matter at the outset.
Tommy was of the party of course, and the other boys were Billy Bunker called Billy Bowlegs by the boys, because he was not bow-legged at all but on the contrary badly knock-kneed, Bob Sharp, a boy of about Tommy's size and age, and Sidney Russell, a boy of thirteen, who had "run to legs," his companions said, and was already nearly six feet high, and so slender that, notwithstanding his extreme height, he was the lightest boy in the company.
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