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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I could 'a' took her out ridin' to-night if I'd wanted to," lied 'Rast promptly. "I'm goin' to take her to the spellin'-bee to-morrow night out to the schoolhouse." "Did she say she'd go with you?" "Not yet. I was jest goin' to ast her to-night." "Mebby Ed's askin' her now." "Gosh dern it, that's so!
Seems as though 'Rast waited around the schoolhouse last night to git a crack at that feller from town. Miss Banks and her three friends set around the stove in the schoolhouse for about an hour after the crowd left, an' 'Rast got so cold he liked to died out there in the woodshed. "Purty soon they all come out, an' 'Rast cut acrost the lot to git inside the house by the fire.
'Rast says ef Anderson had looked in the desk he'd have found the note. "Then she packed up some books an' her an' the feller went out. 'Rast was paralysed. He heerd the sleigh-bells jingle an' then he come to. He started down the ladder so quick that he missed his hold and went kerslam clear to the bottom. Doggone ef he didn't light on his head, too.
Reservists speedily appeared at their regimental depôts, there found their equipment, and speedily brought their regiments up to the war footing; trains were ready, timed according to an elaborate plan, to carry them Rhinewards; provisions and stores were sent forward, ohne Hast, ohne Rast, as the Germans say; and so perfect were the plans on rail, river, and road, that none of those blocks occurred which frequently upset the plans of the French.
Miss Lovering has been dead two years, and we are settling the estate in behalf of the other heirs. We were trying to establish her place of residence. Never mind the body you have lost." "Doggone," said Anderson, chuckling aloud, "that was an awful good joke on 'Rast, wasn't it?" The stablemen stood around and looked at him with jaws that were drooping helplessly.
Finally they became impatient, and then full of wrath. It was evident that the stranger resented the inhospitality of the house. "Who are you?" called Edna, opening the window ever so slightly. Whereupon the man at the gate sank to the ground and groaned with splendid misery. "It's me," he replied. "Who's me?" "'Rast 'Rast Little. I think I'm dyin'."
What's all this plugging for Forbes mean?" Thompson gave him a sour look over the top of his desk. "Addressin' them remarks to me, 'Rast?" "Yes to you! You've been loafing on your job, old man, and it won't do it won't do at all. You should have put a stop to these things. What right have these girls to interfere in a game like this?" "Oh, shut up, 'Rast." "Thompson!
'Rast had acquired the synonym at the business men's carnival in Boggs City the preceding fall. Sometimes he substituted the words "pie-eyed," "skeed," "lit up," etc., just to show his worldliness. After the young men had departed and the Crow girls had gone upstairs with their mother Rosalie slipped out on the porch and sat herself down upon the knee of her disconsolate guardian.
He told us all about his last attack of delirium tremens." "You don't say so! Well, sir, I never thought Alf could find the time to reform ag'in. He's too busy gittin' tight," mused Anderson. "But I guess reformin' c'n git to be as much a habit as anythin' else." "I think he was a little woozy to-night," ventured 'Rast Little. "A little what?" "Drunk," explained 'Rast, without wasting words.
Still, the main cause of delay lies in the fact that the monopoly of transport has been granted by the Maharajah to one Danjibhoy, who charges what he pleases, and takes such time over his arrangements as suits his Oriental mind. The motto over the Transport Office door might well be "Ohne Hast mit Rast!" We were advised when at Lahore to approach Mr.
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