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Very pretty and very clever and very high-spirited, her mother says. Is there a name for that?" "I always call them whoppers," said Miss Middleton. "How do you like 'Alison Mary'? That was my first idea." "Oh, I thought it was always 'William and Mary. Or else 'Victoria and Albert." "I didn't say 'Alice AND Mary, stoopid. I said 'Alison, a Scotch name." "But how perfectly sweet!
"Here is the electric rifle, Mr. Durban. I'll let you have the honor of getting those tusks. My! But they're whoppers! Better use almost a full charge. Don't take any chances on merely wounding him, and having him rush off to the jungle." "I won't," said the old hunter, and he adjusted the electric rifle which Tom handed him.
He lowered the puppies circumspectly on to the gravel. "They'll be whoppers when they're grown," he remarked. "What shall you call them?" "Adam and Eve I think, because they're the first of my lot. They're pedigree dogs and later I may want to show, don't you see." "Yes, I see," Honoria said. He came close to her, putting his face up half shyly to be kissed.
Childhood, when I was young, had rosy checks and bright eyes, as I remember, but it was also extremely given to quarrelling. It used frequently to "get mad." It made nothing of twitching away books and balls. It often pouted. Sometimes it would bite. If it wore a fine frock, it would strut. It told lies, "whoppers" at that. It took the larger half of the apple.
"Between us, brother, I myself don't seem to hanker traveling along this trail after dark, and I mean to carry that small flash of mine, turning the light on every few seconds for I don't believe it would be noticed. But they tell me these whoppers are rather scarce around these sections there may not be another inside of five miles." "Glory!
The proclamation naturally made quite a stir among the great prevaricators of the realm, and hundreds of stories came pouring in from competitors everywhere, some even surreptitiously borrowing "whoppers" from the Persians, who are well known as the greatest economizers of the truth in all Asia; but they were one and all adjudged by the astute monarch-who was himself a most experienced prevaricator probably the noblest Roman of them all as containing incidents that might under extraordinary circumstances have been true.
But Frank was withal a truthful lad his "whoppers" being of the sort meant to deceive nobody. Even his mother could not make him give up his extravagant speech. Once when she spoke about it he gravely replied: "I know it is wrong, mother, but I simply can't stop it. Why, I've made up my mind over a million times to " And then he broke down, and his mother had to laugh in spite of herself.
And then, presently, "And how are you, sir? You've been gone a long while." Sim had seated himself awkwardly on a chair, his hat on his knee. "Have a good time down in the medder?" he asked presently. "He told me you was fishing." "Oh, yes, and we caught some whoppers too. They'll be good to eat, I'm sure." "Yes, I expect you'll like them."
Now, let's see what other hurts he has," and Thure passed his hands gently over the man's head. "Two bumps whoppers! Either enough to knock the senses out of an ox; but, I reckon, they've done no mortal damage. It's the stab wound that I am most afraid of. What do you make out of it all anyway?" and Thure turned to Bud. "Plain robbery and attempted murder," Bud answered gravely.
"Boys, they're just the finest ever! Some whoppers out here, too. No 'coon oyster about that chap," and he held up one that was half again as large as his hand. Now and then, as he worked, they could see him stop to try an extra fat-looking fellow. When this had been repeated a dozen times, Will reproached him. "Where do we come in? Do we get the culls?" he demanded.
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