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"Him stop along gal tenas klootchman, you savvy. Go walkee along gal. P'laps, bimeby, two, tlee hou', him come back." Simon grunted gutturally. "Ya-as," he drawled. "Hiyu lich gal," Feng proceeded. "Have hiyu dolla'. You bet. She one hiyu dam' plitty gal, savvy?" "Hush!" Clyde whispered, as Casey would have put an end to this risky eavesdropping. "I didn't think that Feng had such good taste.
"Now I found 'em," pleaded the bad man. "I did so; I found 'em." "Cooned 'em, you mean!" thundered the judge. "You cooned 'em from Buck or Sandy. Don't tell me, you young reprobate!" "He all like bad man," submitted the prosecution. "I tell 'um catch stlovewood; he tell 'um me: 'You go to haitch! I tell 'um: 'You ownself go to haitch! He say: 'I flan you my gun plitty soon! He do."
Little Fay had refrained from snatching other children's belongings with the cool remark, "Plitty little Fay would like 'at"; Tony had been quite merry and approachable; and William had offered paws and submitted to continual pullings, pushings and draggings with exemplary patience.
Of course, he assured himself it would never do; the idea of bringing them together was wholly preposterous. And yet A Chinese youth, with a handful of trinkets, slipped into the room, and furtively proffered his wares. "Very good, number-one jade-stone. Make missy velly plitty. Can buy?" Percival motioned him away, only to have him return. "Jade-stone velly nice!
Makee too much noisee, all samee too much plenty fiahclackers. Kickee like blazes. Plitty near knockee arm outee Song." The boys stripped Farley after breakfast, and found his legs in pretty bad condition. They looked as if Song's gun had been loaded with smallpox, and all of it had lodged in the lad's legs. "Boys, we'll have to take relays in picking the shot from our first victim," said Ted.
Then with a smile that was subtly compounded of pathos and confidence, "Nobody would mack plitty little Fay ... 'cept ... plapse ... Auntie Dzan." The stern aunt in question snatched up her niece to cover her with kisses.
"You nebbeh get old, Missee Alice," said the sick man. "Twenty yea' I know you always like li'l gi'l." "Nonsense, Po!" cried Alice. Nevertheless she was pleased. "Will you and Hang Far stay with me?" "I t'ink so, Missee," Po replied. "By 'n' by we take one li'l tlip fo' honeymoon. But plitty soon come back." The labor movement grew and Dennis with it both in self-importance and in popularity.
The Chinese nodded. "You get well now plitty soon," he said soothingly and, with the empty cup, stole softly out. After a time Alice came, rejoiced to find him awake. The boy, on his way to school, poked a bright morning face in at the door and called out, "Hello, dad! Better, ain't you?" "Yes, Robert," said Benito. When the boy had gone he turned to Alice. "How long have I been ill?"
Jan and Meg, who wanted desperately to laugh, tried hard to look shocked, and Meg asked, "What on earth possessed you to do such a thing?" "Tony's head so shiny and smoove." Tony rubbed the shiny head ruefully. "Can't I do nuffin to her?" he demanded. "No," his sister answered firmly, "loo can't, 'cos I'm plitty littoo Fay." "Can't I plop some on her head?" he persisted.
"'Tis the way with boys.... Mine is getting so big I'm afraid he'll be going to war." Po Lun interrupted their further confidences. He rushed in breathless, unannounced. "Misstah Windham," he spoke to Benito. "One man wanchee see you quick in Chinatown.... He allee same plitty soon die. He say you sabe him. His name McTu'pin." McTURPIN TURNS INFORMER Benito stared, bewildered, at the Chinaman.
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