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Aunt Lu and I will put on the cake, and other goodies." "Let's play tag!" said Sue. "And after that hide-and-go-to-seek," Bunny called. "And puss-in-the-corner," added Sadie West. One after the other they played the games, running about on the grassy lawn, and having great fun. Splash dug a hole and hid his bone, after gnawing on it as long as he cared to.
Betty shook her head. "Let's ask father about it to-night. When you are little you play tag and puss-in-the-corner and other things, and run about full of fun. Dancing is more orderly and refined. And there's the delicious music! All the young men were so nice and polite, so kind of elegant, and it makes you feel of greater consequence.
The smallest portion of light which we can speak of is called a ray of light. You have seen, when what you call a beam of light comes in at a hole, before the shutters have been opened, how the little specks of dust glance up and down in it, as if they were at an endless game of puss-in-the-corner.
"If you're resolved to be so kind as this about it, I am not high-principled enough to insist on your blasting me with your lightnings. And now, Mrs. Manderson, I had better go. Changing the subject after this would be like playing puss-in-the-corner after an earthquake." He rose to his feet. "You are right," she said. "But no! Wait.
Another game of "puss-in-the-corner" did not warm them much; they were glad when the Snow Man's wife suggested that they go to bed, for they had visions of warm blankets and comfortables. But when they were shown into the great north chamber, that was more like a hall than a chamber, with its walls of solid ice, its ice floor and its ice beds, their hearts sank.
"Wat t'ell do yu' think this is puss-in-the-corner? Cut out the marathon, and come on and fight." Indeed it was good; it was one of those dearly desired comedy moments which Holliday knew would grow epic in the re-telling. Holliday was a good showman. There were more cat-calls, more jeers, and cries of, "Yellow yellow!" And then Holliday went after him and the house went mad.
I think the trouble was that Bi never got it fully into his fool head that it wasn't just fun like puss-in-the-corner or blind-man's-buff. If you talked to him about Retrieving Last Year's Overwhelming Defeat he'd smile pleasantly and come back with some silly remark about Political Economy or Government or other poppycock.
Boys started in and out of their places, playing at puss-in-the-corner with other boys; there were laughing boys, singing boys, talking boys, dancing boys, howling boys; boys shuffled with their feet, boys whirled about him, grinning, making faces, mimicking him behind his back and before his eyes: mimicking his poverty, his boots, his coat, his mother, every thing belonging to him that they should have had consideration for.
And then when we find it isn't as easy to readjust as they think, they yammer around pop-eyed and say 'Oh, what wild young people what naughty little wasters! They won't settle down and play Puss-in-the-corner at all and, oh dear, oh dear, how they drink and smoke and curse 'n everything!" "I'm awful afraid they might be right as to what's the trouble with us, though," says Oliver, didactically.
Raidler waited patiently, glancing around at the white hats, short overcoats, and big cigars thronging the platform. "You're from the No'th, ain't you, bud?" he asked when the other was partially recovered. "Come down to see the fight?" "Fight!" snapped McGuire. "Puss-in-the-corner! 'Twas a hypodermic injection.
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