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I did intend to pour the rest of it out in the henyard, but after that taste I had too much regard for the hens. So I carried it way down to the pond and threw it in, jug and all. B-r-r-r! Of all the messes that I used to wonder what made Josh Rogers go moonin' round makin' his lips go as if he was crazy. I thought he was talkin' to himself, but now I know better, he was TASTIN'. B-r-r-r!"
"It's like ez not," continued Fairley to his daughter, but looking at the squaw, "that she'll be huntin' the woods off and on, and kinder looking after the last pit near the Madroños; ye'll give her grub and licker ez she likes. Well, d'ye hear, Flip? Are ye moonin' agin with yer secrets? What's gone with ye?" If the child were dreaming, it was a delicious dream.
"'Ere, Maffewson, you bone-idle, moonin' waster," bawled the raucous voice of Lance-Corporal Prag, and Dam's soaring spirit fell to earth.
With her father moonin' round in a kind of trance, and the yogi lookin' at her with eyes like live coals, and a snake that stood on its tail, and the other naygur going around with nothin' on but a diaper, I thought she needed somebody to look after her; and says I, 'Annie Crogan, you're the girl to do it!" There was a ripple of laughter and the pencils of the reporters flew across their paper.
Brown stopped to go in back o' the fountain 'n' mix suthin' 't they keep there for him, 'n' it was then 's I hear about Jathrop. "Seems 't along about 'n hour after the cow 'd run over everybody, Jathrop come moonin' back from where the butcher lives out Cherry Pond way. Seems 't the sight o' his calmness jus' sort o' set every one 's wasn't a wreck plum crazy.
"I suppose when a man is big and romantic-looking " "Oh, shucks, ma'am; you'll be havin' me gettin' a swelled head." "He thinks that all he has to do is to look his best." "I expect I've looked my worst since I've been here. I ain't had a chance to do any moonin' at you." "I don't like men that 'moon," she declared. "That's the reason I didn't do it," he said. She laughed.
She was waiting, and, besides, his keen eyes, at once so penetrating and so kind, had confused her. Few secrets had she ever kept from her father. "Where's Lenore?" she heard him ask, down in the dining-room. "Lenorry's mooning," replied Kathleen, with a giggle. "Ah-huh? Well, whereabouts is she moonin'?" went on Anderson. "Why, in her room!" retorted the child.
'Twas the time of the gold craziness out there, and he left his ship and went gold huntin'. And the next thing they knew he was dead and buried." "When was that?" inquired the schoolmistress. "In '54, I tell you. So Seth says." "What ship was he on?" asked Bailey. "Wan't on any ship. Why don't you listen, instead of settin' there moonin'? He was gold diggin', I tell you."
Now and then he tramped on distillery business for Felix O'Beirne, and generally acquitted himself in a manner which appeared worthy of contempt to young Ody Rafferty, who was his companion on these expeditions. Ody expressed his opinion in unqualified terms, saying, "Sure it 'ud disgust you to see him moonin' along like an ould donkey strayed out of a fair."
Madeline snapped out excitedly, "but, ma, you know I'm in the right of it just as well as I do; and there's Lute Cradlebow's got to dreamin' and moonin' around in the same way. Took it into his head he wanted to get an education well, what hasn't he took into his head! So he must begin recitin' to teacher.
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