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Updated: June 19, 2025
The kitchen door was unlocked, and the old watchdog lay on the step outside in the early sunshine, wagging his tail and looking wise, as if he were left on guard and meant to keep the fugitive's secret. "Never knowed her to do nothin' afore 'thout talking it over a fortnight, and paradin' off when we could all see her," ventured a spiteful voice. "Guess we can wait till night to hear 'bout it."
Azuba was brimming over with the novelty of city life. She had been to the theater once already since her arrival, and to the moving picture show three times. "Don't talk to ME," she said. "If them pictures ain't the most wonderful things that ever was, then I don't know. I never expected to see such sights soldiers paradin', and cowboys a-ridin', and houses a-burnin', and Indians scalpin' 'em!
If it weren't for her workin' and slavin' you wouldn't have any fine manners to be paradin' before her. I'd have you know that. She's a better woman nor any you'll be runnin' with this day, you little baggage, you!" "Mama, do you hear what he's calling me?" complained Norah, hugging close to her mother's arm and pretending fear and dissatisfaction. "Eddie! Eddie!" cautioned Mrs.
Anyway, he needn't have come paradin' into the front office in his gym suit to show me his nutty theory of how Young Disko landed that knockout on the Australian in the breakaway. "Turn over!" says I. "You're on your back! He couldn't have done anything of the kind." "Couldn't, eh?" growls Swifty. "Ahr-r-r-r chee! Couldn't give him the shoulder on the jaw! Ain't I seen it done?
"But I'm some sorry for the cuss," he added. "He had it comin'," returned Ben soberly. "An' I'd rather it was him than me." He looked up at Ferguson, his eyes narrowing quizzically. "You ain't been around here for a long time," he said. "For a man who's just been promoted to range boss you're unnaturally shy." Ferguson smiled. "I ain't paradin' around showin' off," he returned.
"Why, Miss Gracie done come pounce on ole Tab while she paradin' down de hall, and ketch her up an' tote her off into Miss Wilet's dressin'-room, an's lef her dar wid de do' shut on her. What for you s'pose she done do dat?" "Oh, go 'long! I don' b'lieve Miss Gracie didn't do no sich ting!" returned Agnes. "She did den, I seed her," asserted the little maid positively.
The editor of the Auger printed the whole thing in his paper, and said it give a staggerin' blow agin Woman's Suffrage, and he didn't know but it wuz a death blow he hoped it wuz. "A Woman's Parade," sez Philander, "is the most abominable sight ever seen on our planetary system. Onprotected woman dressed up in fine clothes standin' up on her feet, and paradin' herself before strange men.
"I'm swell lookin' front door comp'ny, I am," thinks I, handin' over a dollar thirty to the taxi pirate and paradin' in across the red carpet. "Now what is it I tell the butler when he pushes out his tray?" All the guard they has on the door, though, is a French maid, and when she starts to look me over suspicious I shoves the invitation card at her. "Say, Marie," says I, "where's the doin's?"
Next time I has an optical illusion of you paradin' out in any of my uniform, there'll be doin's before the Sergeant!" Then Mother Sykes rushes up from the kitchen and saves the fam'ly honor by throwin' an indignation fit. I don't know how long it lasted; but she was gettin' purple clear up under her false front when I slid out the door and left her at it.
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