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"Oh yes; that's what they all say! But I notice that Hitchcock and George M. Cohan go on drawing big audiences every night yes, and the swellest, best-dressed, smartest people in New York and Brooklyn, too it's in the gallery at the opera that you find all these Wops and Swedes and Lord knows what-all.
The kid's little tin pop-shooter explodes right in his hand before he can crook his forefinger twice, and while he's a-wondering what-all has happened Cock-eye gets his two guns on him, slow and deliberate like, mind you, and throws forty-eights into him till he ain't worth shooting at no more.
The show lady must have seen how dazed Casey looked. "Maybe you ain't heard the horrible deal they handed us, Mister. They stopped our show before we'd raised the curtain, and it was a seventy-five dollar house if it was a cent!" she wailed. "They had a bill as long as my arm for license we couldn't get by with the five-dollar one and for lights and hall rent and what-all.
"Well, what-all are you going to tell these Ophir fellows when you get over there, son?" asked the veteran quizzically. "Going to offer 'em all free passes anywhere they want to go if they'll promise to vote for the railroad candidates?" "Not this year," was the laughing reply. "As I told you a while back, we've stopped all that." "You have, eh?
"Running around on that mountain at all hours of the night," Aunt Amy grumbled, "with burglars and I don't know what-all loose in town!" "And then we found that you were gone, and we thought he had stolen you," Mother went on. "Where have you been?" "I couldn't sleep," said David. "So I went for a walk." "Well, thank heavens you're safe," said Mother.
By the time we've taken on coal an' water an' what-all, it'll be eight or nine o'clock, with me an' McGuffey entitled to mebbe three dollars overtime an' havin' to argue an' scrap with you to git it not to speak o' havin' to put to sea the same night so's to be back in Halfmoon Bay to load bright an' early next mornin'. Scraggsy, I ain't no night bird on this run." "Do you mean to defy me, Gib?"
He declared that 't was God's present, anyhow, that trees was; an' that the things He give us ter look at was jest as much use as the things He give us ter eat; an' that the stars an' the sunsets an' the snowflakes an' the little white cloud-boats, an' I don't know what-all, was jest as important in the Orchestra of Life as turnips an' squashes.
"What-all do you think of Mister Collars-and-Cuffs by this time?" Bradford took a leisurely minute to whittle a chewing cube from his pocket plug of hard-times tobacco. "Well, first dash out o' the box, I allowed he was some locoed; he jumped me like a jack-rabbit for takin' a clearance right under Jim Carter's nose that-a-way.
Run away with by mules, and frightened to death by a great big catamount " Mary squealed and covered her ears. "Don't tell me!" she gasped. "Sure, Miss, there do bes bears, an' panthers, an' wild-cats, an' an' I dunno what-all in these woods. Sure, me and Janey will never go out of this house whilst we stay. 'Tain't civilized hereabout." Ruth laughed rather ruefully.
His gentleman was a free-handed sport and what was good enough for him was none too good for his driver; champagne, the fellow wanted me to go out and have with him, and I couldn't tell you what-all, Miss." "I rather expected that," Willa nodded. "Then, when I got home to my boardin'-house, there was a new lodger in the room next to mine, a long-legged, sandy-haired galoot.
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