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In the last four or five years people said he had gone "nutty," had taken to wandering down the stream beds with his pickax and pan, but he was a harmless old body and seemed able to get along. He said he had a son somewhere who sent him money now and again, and he always had enough to keep himself in groceries and tobacco, which he bought at the general store in Pine Flat.
Back at the farm Elizabeth cooked breakfast and awaited her brother's return with a sinking heart. She was a soft-hearted girl, easily distressed by the sight of suffering; and she was aware that Nutty was scarcely of the type that masks its woes behind a brave and cheerful smile. Her heart bled for Nutty. There was a weary step outside. Nutty entered, slopping water.
But it had sneaked upon him like a thief in the night; it had stolen unheralded into his life when he had practically reformed. What was the good of practically reforming if this sort of thing was going to happen to one? ... Fifty-nine ... sixty. He opened his eyes. The monkey was still there, in precisely the same attitude, as if it was sitting for its portrait. Panic surged upon Nutty.
But the elder man always seemed to be within sight and hearing, even in his watch below; and the moment anything unusual happened, the moment flags started flapping in the breeze, semaphores started to talk, the younger man became rattled and helpless, and things generally started to go wrong, all at the same moment, "Nutty" came clambering up the ladder to the assistance of his bewildered colleague.
'Good morning, Nutty! 'What's the time? asked her brother, hollowly. 'Getting on towards nine. It's a lovely day. The birds are singing, the bees are buzzing, summer's in the air. It's one of those beautiful, shiny, heavenly, gorgeous days. A look of suspicion came into Nutty's eyes. Elizabeth was not often as lyrical as this. 'There's a catch somewhere, he said.
"If that squaw had a soft palate or a nose like a eeclair, you wouldn't be so keen for this simple life," I told him. "She has stirred up your wickedness, Mike, and you've gone nutty. You're moon-crazy, that's all. You cut it out." I argued half the night; but the more I talked the more I seen that Mike was stuck to be a renegade. It's a fact.
"One of your front-row friends from the Winter Garden?" asks Mr. Robert. "No, a friend of yours," says Billy. "That blue-eyed warbler you used to be so nutty over Miss Hampton. Eh, Bob? How about it?" With which he reaches over playful and pokes Mr. Robert in the ribs. I expect he'd have put it across just as raw if there'd been a dozen around instead of only me. That's Billy Bounce.
However, when this man started a grape nut campaign among the younger members of the squad he aroused Jack's ire and upon his arrival at the field house he wiped the black board clean of all instructions and in letters a foot high wrote: "They who eat beef are beefy." "They who eat nuts are nutty." The resultant kidding finally made the old beefsteak popular with our friend. Johnny Mack
And Blake scored amid applause. "What do you know about that?" ejaculated Delaney, wiping his moist face. "I never before saw our nutty Redhead pull off a play like that." Some of the players yelled at Red, "This is a two-handed league, you bat!"
Away over near the other side of the lake we could see the canoe bobbing up and down and it seemed to be coming toward us. "Only one of them is in it," I said. "And that's one too much on a day like this; that pair are sure nutty," Doc said. But just the same the canoe came along and one of those campers was sitting in the stern paddling it.
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