looloos

Updated: May 28, 2025

Wherever the Japs won a victory John Byrnes would shift his pins, and then he would execute a war dance of delight, and the other firemen would hear him yell: "Go it, you blamed little, sawed-off, huckleberry-eyed, monkey-faced hot tamales! Eat 'em up, you little sleight-o'-hand, bow-legged bull terriers give 'em another of them Yalu looloos, and you'll eat rice in St. Petersburg.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million