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His voice dropped, and trembled a little. "Oh-h, have you?" Pollyanna's fingers met and clutched each other in a spasmodic clasp. John Pendleton, however, seemed neither to hear nor see. He had leaped to his feet, and was nervously pacing up and down the little house.
Lance called to Shorty, who had set his milk buckets down that he might open the little gate that swung inward, the gate which horses were not supposed to know anything about. "Oh-h, Shorty! Where did dad and the boys go this morning?" Shorty turned slowly, pulling the gate open and propping it with a stick until he had set the buckets through.
"Eh, what?" she repeated, yawning desperately. "Oh, I was asleep." "Is he clever?" "Clever? Well, rather " Her voice was trailing off again into slumber. "And is he an educated man?" "Educated? Knows his work if that's what you mean. Oh-h but I'm sleepy." "Is he a gentleman?" "Eh? What?" Mandy sat up straight. "A gentleman? I should say so! That is, he is a man all through right to his toe-tips.
"Oh-h sometimes these cabbies think they're funny." Presently the cab stopped. Jan looked out. It was a hotel, with a wide door and a narrow one. The narrow door was marked "Ladies' Entrance," and through the transom a red light shone. "Wait," said Jan. He went through the wide door to the desk. "I want a room for a lady," he said to the clerk. "Lady? Sure. Four dollars."
"The Buffalo Robe," replied Miss Judith, "is a large leather skin upon which the chief events of each camping season are painted in colors, and at the end of the summer it goes to the girl who is voted the most popular. She keeps it through the winter and returns it to us when camp opens the next year." "Oh-h," breathed Agony, mightily interested. "And who got it last year?"
We'll have steak and onions all around." "I want strawberries!" Norine cried. "They're ripe now. Strawberries and cream Oh-h! Think of it!" There was a tense silence, which O'Reilly broke by saying, "I guess 'Vittles' isn't a very good game, after all." "It doesn't seem to fill MY wants," the girl acknowledged. "Let's talk about something else."
That is " He paused and looked quizzically about at the group of tense young faces. "If everybody is willing." "Oh-h," was all that they could say just then. The next day much excitement filled the ranch house. Betty declared that she had not slept a wink the night before, worrying for fear her father had not meant what he said. But Mr. Nelson had meant what he had said, and there was Mrs.
The doctor shook his head. "I could not count them," he replied, not meeting Jason's eyes. "Oh-h!" gasped Jason, and shook in his shoes. There was a long silence. "An' will I die?" he almost whispered. "We all must sometime," returned the doctor, slowly, as if weighing his words; "but you will die long before your time unless you do one thing."
I want this whole thing fixed so it will never make another drop of poison." "At once?" "No. They'd be sure we did it, and I figure Can you fix it so it will go off a quarter minute after the fire is lighted?" "Oh-h, Mena!" cried Elsie. "What you going to do? You know Dad always lights the fire." "Never fear, Blossom. I'll take good care of Dad.
Oh-h! if some of the other fellows were here." But Stud did not seem to be quite alone; he was one and a half; for the hearts of two girls were pendent from his neck; outside he knew they were backing him, praying for him.
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