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He asked, "You been fumigatin'?" "Fumigatin'! Why, Dammy, there ain't been a disease in the house since you had whoopin' cough." "Sulphur," Adam drawled. "Why, Dammy Egg! I never used sulphur for nothin' in my life!" He took a jar of preserves and ripped off the paraffin wafer that covered the top. Then he set the jar aside and sat down on the floor. Mrs. Egg watched him unlace his shoes.
So she tore off a couple of blank forms and put them in her purse, and asked the agent if he knew how the train from the East was, and he gave her the assurance that it had left the city on time and was whoopin' it along through the hills at Cardinal when last heard from and stood a good chance of getting in before night.
Up the street we went, steer bawling and buck-jumping, my hair a-flying, and me as busy as the little bee you read about keeping that steer underneath me, 'stead of on top of me, where he'd ruther be, and after us the whole town, whoopin', yellin', crackin' off six-shooters, and carryin' on wild. "Then we had twenty-five dollars and was as good as anybody. But it didn't last long.
'Taint likely its measles, fer you've hed them three times, 'n' whoopin' cough ain't 'them, it's 'it, 'n' ." Mrs. Case paused and gasped horrified. "Fer lan' sakes, Willie Case, you come right out o' this house this minute ef you got anything in your head." She made a grab for Willie's arm; but the boy dodged and reached the telephone. "Shucks!" he cried.
I hollered for an hour, but I could hear no reply, and then I war still a bit, and then I hollered again, an' kept this up pretty much for the hul o' that blessed day. "Thar wan't any answer but the echo o' my own shoutin', and the whoopin' of the owls that flew about over my head, and appeared as if they war mockin' me. "I had no behopes of any relief comin' from home.
She'd heard old Leather-Lungs whoopin' out there in the kitchen and she'd heard you and me talkin' here in the dinin'-room. I hoped she was asleep, but she wan't. After you went upstairs she called for me and wanted to know the whole story. I told her what I knew of it. Now you can tell her the rest. She takes it just as I knew she would. You done it and so it's all right." "Roscoe, is that you?"
'Mamma's got de whoopin' cough, Daddy's got de measles, Dat's whar de money goes, Pop goes de weasel. 'Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight, Come out tonight, an' dance by de light of de moon? 'Gennie, put de kettle on, Sallie, boil de water strong, Gennie, put de kittle on An' le's have tea! 'Run tell Coleman, Run tell everbody Dat de niggers is arisin'!
I never did neither, but that's what it said in the paper. I suppose it has some reference to the expense of their comin' and their keep through the whoopin' cough stage and the measles, and so on.
The whoopin', and hollerin', and screamin', and bettin', and excitement, beats all; there ain't hardly no sport equal to it. It's great fun to all except the poor goosey-gander. "'The game of colony government to Canady, for some years back, puts me in mind of that exactly. Colonist has had his heels put where his head used to be, this some time past.
When Steve tried to make fun of him for harping on that old string so long, the other immediately took up arms in his own defense. "Huh! it's easy enough for you to act like that, Steve," he remarked once, when the other gave him a jeering laugh; "because if we had to make a bolt for it, you've got running legs, and could put out at a whoopin' lick; but how about poor me?
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