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"Well," Penrod returned, a trifle embarrassed, "I didn't say it WAS peanuts, did I? Honest, Verman, it's sumpthing you'll like better'n a few old peanuts that most of 'em'd prob'ly have worms in 'em, anyway. All I want you to do is " But Verman was not favourably impressed; his face hardened again. "Mo!" he said, and prepared to depart. "Look here, Verman," Penrod urged.
"You couldn't get Herman and Verman in your ole show." "No, and I wouldn't want 'em, either!" "Well, what WOULD you have?" insisted Penrod derisively. "You'd have to have SUMPTHING you couldn't be a show yourself!" "How do YOU know?" This was but meandering while waiting for ideas, and evoked another yell. "You think you could be a show all by yourself?" demanded Penrod.
Still she seemed dimly uneasy, and her eye swung to Penrod. "What were you and Sam talking about, Penrod!" "Ma'am?" "What were you talking about?" Penrod gulped invisibly. "Well," he murmured, "it wasn't much. Different things." "What things?" "Oh, just sumpthing. Different things." "I'm glad you weren't quarrelling," said Mrs.
I think there must have been sumpthing kind of inside of it!" Mr. Schofield shook his head slowly, in marvelling admiration. "Brilliant oh, brilliant!" he murmured, while Mrs. Schofield ran to support the enfeebled form of Margaret at the top of the stairs. ... In the library, after Margaret's departure to her dance, Mr. and Mrs.
"Well, why don't you give him the air-gun," asked the satirical Sam, "and owe him the rest?" "I can't. Papa took the air-gun away from me because he didn't like sumpthing I did with it. I got to owe you the whole two dollars, Penrod." "Look here, Roddy," said Penrod. "Don't you s'pose I'd rather keep this horn and blow on it than have you owe me two dollars?"
I know what we'll do NOW! I just thought of it, and it's goin' to be sumpthing I bet there aren't any other boys in this town could do, because where would they get any good ole panther like we got, and Herman and Verman? And they'd haf to have a dog, too and we got our good ole Dukie, I guess. I bet we have the greatest ole time this afternoon we ever had in our lives!"
For all you know, Verman, it might be sumpthing like this: well, f'rinstance, s'pose I was standin' here, and you were over there, sort of like the way you are now, and I says, 'Hello, Verman! and then I'd go on and tell you there was sumpthing I was goin' to get you to do; and you'd say you wouldn't do it, even before you heard what it was, why where'd be any sense to THAT? For all you know, I might of been goin' to get you to eat a five-cent bag o' peanuts."
"I got home too late to dress, and I'm going to a dance. 'Scuse!" And she began her dancing on the spot, pirouetting herself swiftly out of the room, and was immediately heard running up the stairs. "Penrod!" Mr. Schofield shouted. "Sit down! How many times am I going to tell you? What IS the matter with you to-night?" "I GOT to go," Penrod gasped. "I got to tell Margaret sumpthing."
Goin' be my own boss. I'm go' be a rai'road man!" "You mean like a superintendent, or sumpthing like that, and sell tickets?" asked Penrod. "Sup'in nev' min' nat! Sell ticket? NO suh! Go' be a PO'tuh! My uncle a po'tuh right now. Solid gole buttons oh, oh!" "Generals get a lot more buttons than porters," said Penrod. "Generals " "Po'tuhs make the bes' l'vin'," Herman interrupted.
Sam rose and joined his friend in the doorway opening upon the two stalls. Whitey had preempted the nearer, and was hungrily nuzzling the old frayed hollows in the manger. "Maybe a hunderd dollars or sumpthing?" Sam asked in a low voice. Penrod maintained his composure and repeated the newfound expression that had sounded well to him a moment before.
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