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We'll pretend there isn't any cage there, and soon as I get him fortygraphed, I'll holler, 'Shoot, men! Then you must shoot, Sam and Herman, you and Verman must hammer on the cage with your spears, and holler: 'Hoo! Hoo! and pretend you're spearin' him." "Well, we aw ready!" said Herman. "Hoo! Hoo!" "Wait a minute," Penrod interposed, frowningly surveying the cage.
"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.
He and Sam exchanged a single dumb glance; then the eyes of both swung fearfully to Margaret. Her appearance was one of sprightly content, and, from a certain point of view, nothing could have been more alarming. If she had opened her closet door without discovering Verman, that must have been because Verman was dead and Margaret had failed to notice the body.
He paused, partly to take breath and partly to enjoy his own surprised discovery that this phrase was in his vocabulary. There! NEXT, let me kindly interodoos Herman and Verman. Their father got mad and stuck his pitchfork right inside of another man, exactly as promised upon the advertisements outside the big tent, and got put in jail.
His enthusiasm roused the warm interest of Sam and Verman, though Herman, remaining cold and suspicious, asked for details. "An' I like to hear if it's sump'm'," he concluded, "what's go' git me my britches back outen 'at cistern!" "Well, it ain't exackly that," said Penrod. "It's different from that.
Ain' goin' have no wet cat climbin' up 'em! No, suh!" Both boys began to walk toward him argumentatively, while he moved slowly backward, shaking his head and denying them. "I don't keer how much you talk!" he said. "Mammy gave my OLE britches to Verman, an' 'ese here ones on'y britches I got now, an' I'm go' to keep 'em on me not take 'em off an' let ole wet cat splosh all over 'em.
"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.
Verman had listened obdurately until he heard the last few words; but as they fell upon his ear, he relaxed, and advanced to the stable doors, smiling and extending his open right hand. "Aw wi," he said. "Gi'm here."
Herman can be the chief beater, and we'll let Verman be the other beaters, and I'll " "Yay!" shouted Sam Williams. "I'll be the fortygraph man!" "No," said Penrod; "you be the one with the gun that guards the fortygraph man, because I'm the fortygraph man already. You can fix up a mighty good gun with this carpenter shop, Sam.
It is true that during the half-hour immediately following the installation of this convenience, there was a little violence among the brothers concerning a question of policy. Sam, Roddy and Verman Verman especially wished to use the tube "to talk through" and Maurice, Penrod and Herman wished to use it "to drink through."
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