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The four hundred one was gone." "Sho, sho! Tut, tut, tut! Where did you put the coat when you took it off?" "On the hook in the clothes closet where I always put it." "Hum-m! And er when you told Nellie about it did you speak loud?" "Loud? No louder'n I ever do." "Well er that ain't a er whisper, Sam, exactly." "Don't make any difference.
So he settled down to stay where he was, and hollered louder'n ever the next Sunday. "The old man was a good enough Christian, I reckon; but when it come to singin', he was a stumblin'-block and rock of offense to the whole church, and especially to the choir.
He'll pay the evil-doer his just dues wi'out no help from you." "I've got a voice in my ear, Mary a voice louder'n any human voice; an' it bids me be doin' as the instrument of God A'mighty's just rage. If you can help me, then I bid you do it, if not, let me be away. Did you read any o' that theer letter so much as a word, or did 'e larn wheer 'twas writ from?"
He jist looks at the others, an' he says, kind o' gruff like, 'Go on, yous; don't you mind me. "Well, it was my turn this time, an' I jist bust out louder'n the twins. An' I says, 'Oh, Jake, I says, 'he'll die if we don't adopt him, too, an' so'll I! I says.
It was the black-headed one, but I ain't sure o' their names. One's Lorena, an' the other's Lenora ain't they awful pretty names? But I think they must change them 'round, 'cause I can never remember which is which, nor Jake, neither. Well, anyhow, the black one starts to holler louder'n ever, an' she kept screamin' in between hollers, 'I don't want to leave Timmy!
Tom explained that the music had merely been picked up by the mike on his workbench, then fed into the adjoining apartment and amplified over a speaker there. Chow grinned, snapping his fingers to the catchy melody. "Comes out even louder'n it does from the radio!" "Yes, but the sound quality's not so good," Tom said. "You'd notice the difference with real stereo."
However, that one won't make no difference. She ain't interested in in the one the telegram was sent to, 'tain't likely." "Where is Miss Colton now?" I asked. "With her ma and pa, I presume likely. Her and me set and whispered together for a long spell. Land sakes! she wouldn't let me speak louder'n a whisper for fear of wakin' you up.
"Maybe I can't climb a pole so good, but who can holler louder'n this? Listen to ME-E-E!" "Shut up!" cried Penrod, irritated. "Go to heaven; go to hell!" "Oo-o-oh!" exclaimed Georgie Bassett, profoundly shocked. Sam and Maurice, awed by Penrod's daring, ceased from turmoil, staring wide-eyed. "You cursed and swore!" said Georgie. "I did not!" cried Penrod, hotly. "That isn't swearing."
I gets through my stunt O. K., except what I has to say somehow, I can't get it off my chest louder'n a he-mouse can squeak. "'If any one told me a horse would win, in that tone of voice, says the pale guy to me, 'I'd go bet against him! He keeps me sayin' it over 'n' over till pretty soon you can hear me nearly three feet away. 'That'll have to do for today, says the pale guy.
He chuckled with a sinful pride in his prosperity, which was still new enough to be novel. "Yuh don't catch Casey Ryan goin' around no more without a dime in his hind pocket. I've felt the lack of 'em too many times when they was needed. Casey Ryan's going to carry a jingle louder'n a lead burro from now on. You can ask anybody."
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