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The bored Sam made no response other than to rise languidly to his feet, stretch, and start for home. Left alone, Penrod's practice became less ardent; he needed the stimulus of an auditor. With the horn upon his lap he began to rub the greenish brass surface with a rag. He meant to make this good ole two-dollar horn of his LOOK like sumpthing!
"Come look at our good ole panther, Verman," he called. "I'll get this circus-cage rockin' right good, an' then " "Wait a minute," said Penrod; "I got sumpthing I got to think about. Quit rockin' it! I guess I got a right to think about sumpthing without havin' to go deaf, haven't I?"
"I expect one you had when you were three years old, and your mother stuck it up in the attic to keep till you're dead, or sumpthing!" "It's not either any toy horn," Roddy insisted. "It's a reg'lar horn for a band, and I could have it as easy as anything." The tone of this declaration was so sincere that it roused the lethargic Penrod. "Roddy, is that true?" he sat up to inquire piercingly.
He said he wished somebody'd take that horn off his hands so's he could buy sumpthing else. That's just exactly what he said. I heard him tell my mother.
"Listen here a minute, can't you? How d'you know you don't want to until you know what it is? A person CAN'T know they don't want to do a thing even before the other person tells 'em what they're goin' to get 'em to do, can they? For all you know, this thing I'm goin' to get you to do might be sumpthing you wouldn't miss doin' for anything there is!
I got sumpthing just SPLENDUD for you to do!" Verman's expression hardened; he shook his head decisively. "Mo," he said. "Oh, COME on, Verman?" Penrod pleaded. "It isn't anything goin' to HURT you, is it? I tell you it's sumpthing you'd give a good deal to GET to do, if you knew what it is." "Mo!" said Verman firmly. "I mome maw woo!" Penrod offered arguments. "Look, Verman!" he said.
"Oh!" said Sam. "Point to sumpthing, Herman," Penrod commanded, and Sam's excitement, when Herman pointed was sufficient to the occasion. Penrod, the discoverer, continued his exploitation of the manifold wonders of the Sherman, Herman, and Verman collection. The cumulative effect was enormous, and could have but one possible result. The normal boy is always at least one half Barnum.
"He got me with his ole tin-box needle, too," Maurice muttered to Sam. "He was goin' to do it to Marjorie, and I told her to look out, and he says, 'Here, YOU take it! all of a sudden, and he stuck it in my hand so quick I never thought. And then, BIM! his ole needle shot out and perty near went through my thumb-bone or sumpthing. He'll be sorry before this day's over!"
"I expect you need some wiping down," he began dangerously. "I'll give you sumpthing to remem " "Oh, you will!" Maurice cried with astonishing truculence, contorting himself into what he may have considered a posture of defense. "Let's see you try it, you you itcher!" For the moment, defiance from such a source was dumfounding.
"My uncle spen' mo' money 'n any white man n'is town." "Well, I rather be a general," said Penrod, "or a senator, or sumpthing like that." "Senators live in Warshington," Maurice Levy contributed the information. "I been there. Warshington ain't so much; Niag'ra Falls is a hundred times as good as Warshington. So's 'Tlantic City, I was there, too. I been everywhere there is.
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