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Updated: June 2, 2025
Let's start for the moon!" For a moment there was silence in the laboratory of the scientist. It was broken by Washington White, who remarked: "Good land a' massy! Annodder ob dem trips through de air! Well, I ain't goin' to no moon no sah!! Ef I went dere, I'd suah get looney, an' I has troubles enough now wid'out dat, I suah has!"
Why, when you came here to-night and told me quite nat'ral-like and easy how she went off in the ship, and then calmly ate your pie and drank your whiskey after it, I knew you didn't care for her. There's my hand, Spence; you're a trump, even if you are a little looney, eh? Why, what's up?"
He might have known that he would only make an ass of himself, And, because he had done so, Looney Biddle's left hand, that priceless left hand before which opposing batters quailed and wilted, was out of action, resting in a sling, careened like a damaged battleship; and any chance the Giants might have had of beating the Pirates was gone gone as surely as that thousand dollars which should have bought a birthday present for Lucille.
Before midnight the dormitory was full of suffocating smoke. The alarm was raised. For a time it was thought that all the boys had escaped down an iron staircase lately erected outside the building. But when the flames had been put out in the store-room below, the bodies of Looney and Clem were found clasped together on Clem's bed.
"Aw, cut out the tragedy stuff," said Vic, "and don't be an ass. Good-night." Vic turned on his heel and left McNish standing in a dull and dazed condition, and made his way toward the ballroom. "Who is the Johnny, anyway?" he said to himself. "He is mad looney utterly bughouse. Needs a keeper in the worst way. But what about the Captain must think up something. Let's see. Taken suddenly ill?
To add zest to the chase, Clem now let Looney slip as a kind of bag-fox, and the half-witted creature went lumbering and blubbering about in real terror of his life, whilst his pursuers encouraged his speed with artifices in which the animated spinnies and coverts deferentially joined. Unnoticed and lonely in the crowd, Alfred was almost sorry he was not half-witted too.
"Miss Morehouse is over there," he said in warning, "I saw her sailin' around in her hospital clothes yesterday." "We don't mind. Is she Aunt Hannah?" Cleo asked. "Yes, that's the dame. Miss Hannah Morehouse, boss of Looney Land," replied Tommie, "and you've got a lot of nerve to trespass on her territory. She's mighty strict."
"Holy smoke! they sure must a'gone looney!" Perk was telling himself, lost in wonder and dismay, for he began to suspect that this would be apt to mix their own plans and upset all Jack's calculations.
Cooper Edgecombe showed himself in a vastly different light while thus engaged, his shrewd questions, his apt comments, quite effectually removing the far from agreeable doubts born of his earlier words and demeanour. "Well, if he's looney, it's only on some points, not as the whole porker, anyway," confidentially asserted Waldo, when an opportunity offered.
"I've got other things to do besides standing here arguing with you all night. I'll send for you both at bed-time, and then I'll teach you to come stealing about here, you young thieves. Now drop that, and clear out!" he added more angrily to Looney, who was still chuckling with astonishment over his prize.
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