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You'd much better get a washing machine and a 'lectric iron!" grumbled Grandmother Brady practically. "Well, all I got to say about it is, she was an awful fool to trust you with so much money," said Lizzie's mother discontentedly, albeit with a pleased pride as she watched her giddy daughter fling on hat and coat to go down and tell Dan.
By George! On a hot Christmas like this is goin' to be, I'd be the jolliest Jack on the ocean if I could git at that canned fruit. `Well, there's a way, says Andy, `that we might git some of 'em. A part of the cargo of this ship is stuff far blastin' rocks ca'tridges, 'lectric bat'ries, an' that sort of thing; an' there's a man aboard who's goin' out to take charge of 'em.
But if you children are not away off here looking for milk, what are you here for, I'd like to know?" "I'm looking for my Teddy bear with the blinking 'lectric lights for eyes," said Sue. "What makes you think you'll find him here, off in the woods?" asked Mr. Bixby, after a pause.
Their impertinences had offended her grievously at the time, but, woman-like, she permitted herself to forget that now, in order to accentuate the deficiencies of the man whom she was unwilling to think well of. "My lands!" she reiterated to herself, with accumulated scorn, "but ain't he green? He why, he wouldn't know a 'lectric car from a waterin'-cart.
"I bet Maw forgot to open the window into the shaft," said Fidy. "Windows don't do no good," said Nance; "they just let in smells. Wisht I was a man! You bet I would be up at Slap Jack's! I'd set under a 'lectric fan, an' pour cold things down me an' listen at the 'phoney-graf ever' night. Hush! Is that our baby?"
Well sir, the first time I went home with her I put my arm around her, and honest it scared me. It was just like when you take hold of the handles of a lectric battery, and you can't let go till the man turns the knob. Honest, I was just as weak as a cat. I thought she had needles in her belt and was going to take my arm away, but it was just like it was glued on.
That little spool man, Dannie, iducatin' Jones of the gravel gang, and Bingham of the Standard, and York of the 'lectric railway, and Haines of the timber gang, not to mintion the champeen rat-catcher of the Wabash." Jimmy hugged himself, and rocked on the edge of the bed. "Oh, I can just see it, Dannie," he cried. "I can just see it now!
Sime as if " pondering hard in search of simile, "sime as if no one 'ad never knowed about 'lectricity, an' there wasn't no 'lectric lights nor no 'lectric nothin'. Onct nobody knowed, an' all the sime it was there jest waitin'." Her fantastic laugh ended for her with a little choking, vaguely hysteric sound. "Blimme," she said. "Ain't it queer, us not knowin' IF IT'S TRUE."
He refused to try a ride on the tandem seat of one of the troop's motorcycles, and when he received a slight shock after several of the boys had persuaded him to take hold of the handles of a static electric machine, he became thoroughly frightened. "Look year," he said with a decided southern accent, "I don't like this hear 'lectric business no how. Hit's dangerous stuff an' I'm afeard o' hit.
The peculiar joy of the mountain railway is that, if it is properly made, a loaded car not a toy engine; it is too rough a game for delicate, respectable engines will career from top to bottom of the system, and go this way and that as your cunningly-arranged switches determine; and afterwards and this is a wonderful and distinctive discovery you can send it back by 'lectric. What is a 'lectric?
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