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Barnes, "I wish you wouldn't say nothin' to nobody about Mr. Kenelm and me bein' engaged. And just ask the rest of 'em that heard the the rough-house last night not to say anything, either, please." "Why, Imogene," said Thankful, "I didn't know you wanted it to be a secret. Seems to me you said yourself that it wasn't any secret." "Yes'm, I know I did. Well, I suppose 'tain't, in one way.
It applauded every descent upon a Socialist or pacifist meeting, not because it was very hotly in favour of war in fact, it was lukewarm about war, and resisted all efforts to heat it up until overwhelming swarms of yokel-yankers were turned upon it but because it was in favour of a safe and stimulating form of rough-house, with the police helping instead of hindering.
"Well, then," she said at last, when they had subsided from a regular rough-house frolic for all the world as if they were children, "we'll have to get to work in good earnest; only it doesn't seem right to let you work so hard when you are visiting me." "Visiting, nothing!" declared Allison; "we're having the time of our lives.
Where did you learn that right cross if I may ask?" "Where you learned that half-Nelson," Martin answered. "Anyway, you're going to have a black eye." "I hope your neck doesn't stiffen up," the editor wished solicitously: "What do you say we all go out and have a drink on it not the neck, of course, but the little rough-house?" "I'll go you if I lose," Martin accepted.
Possibly there were many more similar packages down below, for the sloop was evidently heavily laden. Now and then the voluble member of the firm would let out a crisp exclamation as though those keen eyes of his had run across some visible sign of the recent rough-house disagreement that tickled him more or less.
From his bleeding knuckles and the skin off one cheek, it was evident that he had given Stine and Sprague what was coming. "You ought to see that cabin," he chuckled, as they stood at the bar. "Rough-house ain't no name for it. Dollars to doughnuts nary one of 'em shows up on the street for a week. An' now it's all figgered out for you an' me. Grub's a dollar an' a half a pound.
There never had been any trouble about that question of dancing, because they just did not do it; and there was always something else going on, some lively games, sometimes almost a "rough-house," as the boys called it, but never anything really unpleasant. Julia Cloud was "a good sport," the boys said; and the girls delighted in her.
The stand was a rickety, two-story affair, the second story open at the front, and here the judges could be seen debating as heatedly as the crowd beneath them. "There she starts!" Bert cried. "Oh, you rough-house!" The black-haired racer, backed by a dozen supporters, was climbing the outside stairs to the judges. "The purse-holder's his friend," Billy said.
In about two seconds there was the biggest kind of a rough-house. I kept out of it, and saw Hiram get to the automobile and begin hugging the chap in the tonneau. The fellow in the car didn't like it, and the driver started up and Hill was left behind. "The crowd rolled over the place where Hill was lying and I saw him picked up by a couple of policemen and carried to a drug store.
Only one fellow actually on guard. We had a little rough-house. He struck me in the leg, and it bled a lot. That's what kept me. And it took some time with him." "Jimsy, is it bad? Is it still bleeding? Let me see!" He pushed her away, almost roughly. "It's all right. Juan tied it up. It'll do. I guess you can have a little more water, now, but take it slowly.... There!
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