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Updated: May 15, 2025
Well, I'll tell you how I'll keep my accounts; I'll have a stick like Robinson Crusoe, and every time I make a toadskin I'll gouge a piece out of one side of the stick, and every time I spend one I'll gouge a piece out of the other." "Spend a what!" said the gentle and astonished voice of my sister Lu, who, unperceived, had slipped into the room.
Well, I'll tell you how I'll keep my accounts; I'll have a stick, like Robinson Crusoe, and every time I make a toadskin I'll gouge a piece out of one side of the stick, and every time I spend one I'll gouge a piece out of the other." "Spend a what?" said the gentle and astonished voice of my sister Lu, who, unperceived, had slipped into the room.
"A toadskin, ma," replied Billy, shutting up Colburn with a farewell glance of contempt. "Dear! dear! where does the boy learn such horrid words?" "Why, ma! don't you know what a toadskin is? Here's one," said Billy, drawing a dingy five-cent stamp from his pocket. "And don't I wish I had lots of 'em!" "Oh!" sighed his mother, "to think I should have a child so addicted to slang!
However, like some of our western medical men, he did not confess his ignorance, but proceeded to prescribe a huge dose of boiling water, to be followed a little later by a compound of pulverized deer's horn and dried toadskin. Poor Honeysuckle lay in agony for three days, all the time growing weaker and weaker from loss of sleep.
"A toadskin, ma," replied Billy, shutting up Colburn with a farewell glance of contempt. "Dear, dear! Where does the boy learn such horrid words?" "Why, ma, don't you know what a toadskin is? Here's one," said Billy, drawing a dingy five-cent stamp from his pocket. "And don't I wish I had lots of 'em!" "Oh!" sighed his mother, "to think I should have a child so addicted to slang!
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