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Updated: June 11, 2025
I went ter the woods betimes that morn, An' tuk my flint-lock, "Nancy," by name; An' thar I see, in the crotch of a tree, A great big catamount grinnin' at me. A-kee! he! he! An' a-ho! ho! he! A pop-eyed catamount laffin' at me! And, as Rufe sang, the anger and remonstrance in the owl's demeanor increased every moment. For the owl was a vocalist, too!
And poor old Whinstane Sandy, back at Alabama Ranch, is still making sheep's eyes at the patches which Struthers once sewed on his breeks, like as not, and staring with a moonish smile at the atrabilious photograph which the one camera-artist of Buckhorn made of Struthers and my three pop-eyed kiddies.... These are, without exception, the friendliest people I have ever known.
If I didn't feel fully responsible for this dreadful state of affairs, I would most certainly stand from under!" He turned from the 'phone and beheld Mrs. Daney, alert of countenance and fairly pop-eyed with excitement. She grasped her husband by the arm. "You have a private line from the mill office to The Dreamerie," she reminded him.
"Ah, ditch the assault and battery!" says I. "It ain't me. But there's someone in the lib'ry you could soothe with a word or two maybe. Why not go in and see her?" "Her?" says he, starin' pop-eyed. "You you don't mean Miss Billings?" "Sure!" says I. "Joey, it's you she wants, and if I was you I'd " But he's off on the run, with a queer, eager look on his face.
Sech holler-in' we-uns hed never hearn with none o' the t'other chil'ren. The boys war nowhar. But a-fust it never 'sturbed Tobe. He jes spoke out same ez he useter do at the t'others, 'Shet up, ye pop-eyed buzzard! Wa'al, sir, the Cunnel jes blinked at him, an' braced herself ez stiff, an' yelled! I 'lowed 'twould take off the roof.
Low down, ungrateful, pop-eyed pig!" Nor did the reviling stop there. For the space of about forty seconds Aurora was unpublishable. "But how on earth did he get at it?" wondered Estelle. "After he'd opened that letter of mine, he wrote to the amiable writer thereof and asked for information." "Honestly, Nell, I don't think he's had time." "I guess he has just time.
Me an' this gent here" he waved his hand toward Pat with elaborate formality, to the huge delight of his audience "me an' this here gent is first uncles to that kid, an' any pop-eyed, lop-eared, greasy-fingered cross between a coyot' an' a jack-rabbit that comes a-pouncin' out o' the wilds o' civilization to jump our claim by makin' insinuations that we ain't competent to see that the aforementioned kid has proper bringin' up an' that Brother Worth ain't a proper daddy for her, had best come loaded for trouble.
Yore a sumptious marshal, yu are! Yore th' snortingest ki-yi that ever stuck its tail atween its laigs, yu are. Yu pop-eyed wall flower, yu wants to peep to yoreself or some papoose'll slide yu over th' Divide so fast yu won't have time to grease yore pants. Pick up that license-tag an' let me see you perculate so lively that yore back'll look like a ten-cent piece in five seconds. Flit!"
God hates an amateur." "What are you after?" persisted Scott. "Fame?" "Yes; I need it in my business." "Are you contemplating a velvet coat and bow tie, and a bunch of the elect at your heels? ratty men, and pop-eyed young women whose coiffure needs weeding?" Duane laughed. "Are they any more deadly than our own sort? Why endure either?
He saw a pop-eyed Person in soiled Neglige, who made threatening movements toward something concealed in the White Clover, with a Weapon resembling the iron Dingus used in gouging the Clinkers from a Furnace. "What is the plot of the Piece?" he inquired of a Grand Army man, sitting next. "I think," replied the Veteran, "I think he is killing a Garter Snake."
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