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Caddies' kitten, who never lost her confidence in him, would assume a sinuous form and start scampering into the cottage, up to the kitchen fender, round, out, up his leg, up his body, right up to his shoulder, meditative moment, and then scat! back again, and so on.
I mean danger of her gettin' hurt with it," explained Eliza timidly. "Mercy, no. How could it harm her if it was wet?" "I dunno," whimpered Eliza. "I'm so scat of such things." "Well, it's certainly made us trouble enough!" put in Mary, with a sigh. "I've felt like a criminal ever since the thing came to light. It's seemed as if we'd never get rid of it." Jane smiled. "I know it," she said.
His ring startled Fanny, who at once sprang from her scat to open the door for him; but having taken a few steps, she hesitated and irresolutely re-seated herself. It was only his second ring that the servant unamiably condescended to answer. “So you’re going to take Fanny away from us, Mr. Hosmer,” said Belle, when he had greeted them and seated himself beside Mrs.
But let 'em wag their double chins; you'll scat the old cats from their cushions!" she said. At the impetuous outflinging of her hands, the floor was strewn with pink petals. "Cats?" repeated Mrs. Whitney, who just then made her appearance, "are they a hobby with Miss Reid?" "I'd drown 'em," cried Kitty, vanishing, "nine times!" Oh, I'm weary of these bickerings; so womanish!
So we cut a hole in the stub, and, sure enough, there was a mink, and, as good luck would have it, we had cut the hole close to the place where he was, and we thought we had him sure; and, while Harry Butler went to cut a stick to kill him with, I chopped the hole a little larger, so that we could see him plainer, when, all of a sudden, out popped the mink, and, before we could say 'scat, it was under the ice."
He turned upon the little boys and girls, and, waving his arm, cried, "Scat!" They fell back about ten feet. Thus the procession formed: Barton and Jim, then Mr. Edwards, and at a barely respectful distance the crowd of youngsters. Mr. Peaslee, much moved, but trying hard not to show it, thrust his rake under the veranda with a great show of care, and joined Mr.
"What did you say?" asked John. "Nuthin'," said David. "They was all laughin' so't I couldn't git in a word, an' then the waiter brought me another plateful of somethin'. Scat my !" he exclaimed, "I thought that dinner 'd go on till kingdom come. An' wine! Wa'al! I begun to feel somethin' like the old feller did that swallered a full tumbler of white whisky, thinkin' it was water.
Then to the thronging queries threatening to return and keep him awake: "Scat! go away! call it a pipe-dream and let me go to sleep!" In his most imaginative moments, Evan Blount had never prefigured a home-coming to coincide in any detail of it with the reality.
Of evenings they sit at little tables along the sidewalk and drink beer and play pinochle and scat . They are very thrifty people. It is near but not "on" the Pedernales. Austin had a large German population when O. Henry lived there in the 1890's, and when he was publishing a weekly humorous newspaper called The Rolling Stone he lost many subscribers and advertisers by satirizing the Germans.
May 's well die fer the ole sheep 's the lamb, but, Polly Bixbee, if you've got designs on my life, I may 's well tell ye right now 't I've left all my prop'ty to the Institution fer Disappinted Hoss Swappers." "That's putty near next o' kin, ain't it?" was the unexpected rejoinder of the injured Polly. "Wa'al, scat my !" exclaimed David, hugely amused, "if Polly Bixbee hain't made a joke!
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