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"Sun down, now, children, and play on the grass," she said. "Sun, chicks off with you shoo!" and she flirted her apron after them as she did when she scattered the chickens from the dairy door. The pinafored people fled shrieking across the grass, tumbling over each other in riotous heaps. Then Winsome went over and kissed her husband. He was looking so handsome that he deserved it.
A promise speedily fulfilled by the lively old woman, who appeared with an energetic "Shoo!" for the speckled hens congregated in the porch, and a hearty welcome for the weather-beaten strangers. "Sakes alive!" she exclaimed; "you be in a mess, ain't you? Come right in and make yourselves to home. Abel, take the men folks up chamber, and fit 'em out with anything dry you kin lay hands on.
"Well," said Mrs. Petty, "I can't waste time. Here's his extra set of teeth. Don't lose them. Have you got your own toothbrush? Use it, and behave yourself. Let me have a line. And don't let him get excited." She tapped her forehead. "Go away, you boys; shoo!" The boys, now six in number, raised a slight cheer; for at that moment Mr.
Yet this insignificance echoed cellar-plots and cabinet meetings and labor conferences in Persia and Prussia, Rome and Boston, and the orators who deemed themselves international leaders were but the raised voices of a billion Juanitas denouncing a million Carols, with a hundred thousand Vida Sherwins trying to shoo away the storm. Carol felt guilty.
"It is not easy to take the life of one of my caste in India; and, by dint of the exertions of my friends, in spite of the influence of Shunah Shoo, and the family of the Omrah, I was pardoned, on condition of doing penance, which was, that I should never live in a country in which the religion of Brahmin prevailed, and should not again look at, or converse with, any woman for two minutes together.
Boys and girls ran hither and thither, tumbling over each other, and over the chairs and stools, and all talking and screaming at once. "'Bring a broom or a flagpole, Johnny, called Philip. 'I'll shoo him down for you while you stand underneath and catch him. "'Shoo, shoo! said Jeannette, catching her dress skirt with both hands and waving it back and forth rapidly.
I'll make you lay, you lazy thing!" Sassy tilted her head so that the opposite ear lobe showed, and lifted one foot against her breast. Otherwise she did not indicate that she had even heard her orders. Her disobedience angered the little girl. "Shoo! shoo! shoo!" she cried; "do you think I'm going to carry you? No, siree! You'll walk, every step of it, too. I'll teach you."
At night we hear the questing beast, and lie awake and shiver. She can tell at once the house where a baby is coming, and lies down at the door, watching to get in. There are words that have power to shoo her away, only they do not always work But here I sit talking, and the beast may by this time have got home, and her mistress be sending the other after us!"
And now, as the increase of talent in Wilmington opened a wider field, the band was organized. It was called Frank Johnson's Band at first, but in after years more familiarly known as the "Shoo Fly." The name is a small matter, however; music was the chief thing. And how that band could play it! There was a ring in that music that electrified the soul and filled the limbs with renewed vigor.
Look here, Johnny, can't you sing something in English?" Phil, in response to this request, played and sang "Shoo Fly!" which suiting the boys' taste, he was called upon to repeat. The song being finished, Edward Eustis took off his cap, and went around the circle. "Now, boys, you have a chance to show your liberality," he said. "I'll start the collection with five cents."
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