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And this big husky lummox of a Chester Timmins him she'd called a male what does he do but stand safely at a distance of four feet in the grand romantic light of the full moon, and tell her vivaciously all about the new saddle he's having made in Spokane. And even then he not only chokes but he giggles. They do say a strong man in tears is a terrible sight.
"Trying to be funny," said Tom, sharply. "And you set me the example." "Now, boys!" begged Aunt Kate. "Don't quarrel." "And, dear me, boys," gasped Nan, "please don't squabble about me." "That big lummox!" continued Rafe, still angry. "Because dad backs him up and says he ought to lick me, he does this. I'm going to defend myself. If he does a thing like that again, I'll fix him."
"He said that her son had given him a core of his apple when they were boys together. Dan'l ez mighty thoughtful o' folks that was kind to him in them days." "Is that all?" said Lummox, astonished. "Well I've kinder thought suthin' else," said Mrs. Bigsby hesitatingly. "What?"
Nick sang like a blackbird in the hedge. And how those country lads and lasses stared to see such winsome, dainty grace! "La me!" gaped one, "'tis fairy folk she doth na even touch the ground!" "The pretty dear!" the mothers said. "Doll, why canst thou na do the like, thou lummox?" "Tut," sighed the buxom Doll, "I have na wingses on my feet!"
Allowed that my cute sayin's was a kind o' ten-cent parody o' them proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanack!" "Omitting a few expletives, he certainly did," returned Lummox with great delicacy.
Kedzie quivered as if she had been lashed. She struck back with her best Nimrim repartee, "You're a nice one to call me a cow, you big, fat, old lummox!" Miss Silsby fairly mooed at this. "You you insolent little rat, you! You oh, you you! I'll never let you dance for me again never!" "I'd better resign, then, I suppose," said Kedzie. "Resign? How dare you resign! You're fired!
"That its bein' Christmas Day and as I've heard tell that's NO DAY IN LAW, but just like Sunday Dan'l mebbe thought that he might crawl outer that satisfaction piece, ef he ever wanted ter! Dan'l is mighty cute." Mr. John Lummox was not behind his employer in developing unexpected traits of character.
During the little time that William spent in this sequestration he passed through phases of emotion which would have kept an older man busy for weeks and left him wrecked at the end of them. William's final mood was one of beautiful resignation with a kick in it; that is, he nobly gave her up to George and added irresistibly that George was a big, fat lummox!
Bigsby by Dan'l Borem in his own dialect. "Ez far as I kin see, it was like the Deacon's Sunday hoss trade, bein' all 'Ef it wassent. 'Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, sez Lummox, sez he, 'I'd be tellin' ye how I've loved ye ever sence I first seed ye. Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, I'd be squeezin' yer hand, sez he; 'ef ye wasn't Mrs.
But I said: 'I'll borry Pegasus o' you on those terms. The next day I took the hoss to Jonesville; Lummox was right: he wasn't FAST, but, jest as I expected, he made a sensation! Folks crowded round him whenever I stopped; wimmin followed him and children cried for him. I could hev sold him for three hundred without leavin' town!
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