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You look young to manage unruly boys, and there's a pile of 'em in Deestrick No. 5 want lickin' half the time. Ruby Ann can lick 'em. She's five feet nine. You ain't more'n five." Eloise did not tell him how tall she was. In fact, she didn't know. She must look very diminutive in Mr.
I wanted to go an' cuff that feller's ears an' grab hold o' him an' toss him over the ridge pole. Abe went right up to him an' said: "'Jack, you ain't half so bad or half so cordy as ye think ye are. You say you can throw down any man here. I reckon I'll have to show ye that you're mistaken. I'll rassle with ye. We're friends an' we won't talk about lickin' each other.
There he struck his favorite attitude, which was always made most effective by the endless operation of putting his spectacles in their case pulling them out waving them ad infinitum. For in our valley spectacles are the sceptre of the sovereign intellect. "They was talkin' about lickin' the teacher," Elmer said, "and sech talkin' I never heard. It was the nonsensicalest yet.
Stephen bent down and whispered in the boy's ear: "Yer'd best be going now, Peter, lad. 'Tis half-past nine and, chance, if yer go back now yer lickin' 'ull not be so bad." But Peter whispered back: "Not yet, Stephen a little while longer." Peter was tremendously excited. He could never remember being quite so excited before.
Way I look at it, you're doin' about the only thing that can be did cleanin' out this range and drivin' the hawses all up on the north range. That kinda leaves the jam pot empty when they come lickin' their lips for more of the same." "Well, I guess you're right, Bill. And how do you figure young Jewel not being here? His saddle is out there in the shed, and all his horses are here." "Him?"
"I've took the basket er clothes-pins and lowered 'em down the well; I've took an hid Grandma Babson's best cap, 'cause she said 'That boy needs a lickin'. Want ter know where I put it? Up in the barnloft on the hay. I did somethin' else too. I put a wad er paper in the dinner horn. Won't they be mad when they try to blow it? I guess they'll be sorry they made me go ter school."
I ain't goin' to have you paying 'tentions to her." "I don't see what business it is of yours," retorted Walter. "You'll find out if I give you a lickin'!" growled the other, handling the stick which he carried in a suggestive manner. Walter was inclined to retort in kind, but all at once it struck him as foolish to get into a quarrel about a girl whom he had known less than an hour.
"Well, my dear, I didn't wait to hear no more, but I opened my satchel an' took out one of my slippers an' give that child a lickin' that he'll remember when he's a grandparent. 'Hereafter, says I, 'when I tell you to do anythin', you'll do it. I'll speak kind the first time an' firm the second, and the third time the whole thing will be illustrated so plain that nobody can't misunderstand it.
"Snakes, Rover, doesta see t' snakes," he would mutter, as his eye caught the serpent-like advance of the walls. The dog seemed to catch his meaning, and responded with a low growl of sympathy. "Aye, they're snakes," the old man went on, "crawlin's up t' fell-side on their bellies an' lickin' up t' dust.
Dick, touched by the agony of despair with which Paul threw himself upon the bed, advised surrender. 'What's a lickin'? said Dick. 'Have it over. 'Oh, Dick, cried Paul, clipping at the air between them, 'plead for me! 'Not me, said Dick, who was less literary than Paul, and misunderstood the unfamiliar word 'bleed for yourself. And again the heavy day went on, and Paul wept and wept alone.
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