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Updated: May 2, 2025
"How quick I'd step into it without even stopping to take off my garnet ring!" "Don't be such a scare-cat, Emma Jane!" exclaimed Candace bracingly. "Jacob Moody can't kill you, even if he has an awful temper. Trot right along now before you get more frightened. Shall we go cross lots with her, Rebecca, and wait at the pasture gate?
"Who ever saw ghosts carrying garbage cans before?" ejaculated the girl of the Red Mill. "Mercy me, Heavy! do stop your wailing. It is the chef and his two assistants who have got up to dump the garbage on the out-going tide. What a perfect scare-cat you are!" "You don't mean it, Ruth?" whimpered the plump girl. "Is that all they were?" Helen began to giggle. And it covered her own fright.
"Did you, Sadie, descend so low as to barter kisses with Isidore Belchatosky?" "No ma'an," this with much scorn. "I wouldn't to kiss him; he's a scare-cat, und he tells out." "What did he tell?" asked Teacher. "He tells out how I say I kiss him a kiss so he make Eva a shiner. Und I wouldn't to do it. Never. So he gave me five cents even, I wouldn't to kiss no scare-cat."
"What do you think of it, boys?" asked Max, smiling a little as he noted how even bold Steve was just a little bit awed by the gruesome aspect of the place which they meant to make their stamping ground for a full week, unless they wished to bring down upon their heads the scorn and derision of Herb and his crowd, and hear their cries of "I told you so; who's a scare-cat now?"
Ravell Bulson, without a doubt. "And about the negro?" he asked the girl. "Describe him." But all Jennie could say was that he was a big, burly fellow with a long, long nose. "An awfully long nose for a colored person," said Jennie. "He frightened me so, I don't remember much else about him and I'm no scare-cat, either. You ask any of the directors I have worked for during the past two years.
Then he came out of his hiding-place, and snipped off the fresh young leaves from the bushes as he walked along making up his mind what he would do next. "It is too bad," he thought, "that Nanny is such a scare-cat and slow runner for if she had only kept up with me she would be free now and we could have a good time here.
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