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Updated: May 10, 2025
All the same I aint going to let no little whiffet like Tom Allison call me a coward."
'Twixt yer whiffet of a gal an' yer old of a husband, yer've bewitched all the sense the feller ever hed in his noddle, durn yer!" "Let him talk," jeered the squire. "'T will not bring Phil back. What's more, I'll make him smile the other side of his teeth before I've done with him. Harkee, man, I've a rod in pickle that will make ye cry small."
She stood up in her bewilderment, and looked with puzzled, dazed expression around the room. "Joe didn't do it, if that's what you mean," said she. "Madam " began the coroner severely. "Yes, you little whiffet," she burst out sharply, "you're the one that put 'em up to do it! Joe didn't do it, I tell you, and you men know that as well as I do. Every one of you has knowed him all his life!"
First I miss seein' this fire-eater bate the face off the big ilephant, Corrigan, an' yisterday I was figgerin' on goin' to town but didn't; an' I miss seein' that little whiffet of a Braman flyin' through the windy. Do ye's know that there's a feelin' ag'in Corrigan an' the railroad in town, an' thot this mon Trevison is the fuse that wud bust the boom av discontint.
I expected he would alight near by, but instead of that he struck directly upon the nest, his mate getting out of the way barely in time to avoid being hit; it seemed almost as if he had knocked her off the nest. I hardly see how they can make such a rush on the nest without danger to the eggs." The kingbird will worry the hawk as a whiffet dog will worry a bear.
He came in daily, big, dominant and demonstrative, filling the house with his presence, and demanding her in a loud, urgent voice. Hardly had the door slammed before he would call: "Lily! Where are you?" Sometimes he lifted her off her feet and held her to him. "You little whiffet!" he would say. "I could crush you to death in my arms."
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