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I think the Fire People had already begun to be afraid of the dark in this fashion; but the reasons we Folk had for breaking up our hee-hee councils and fleeing to our holes were old Saber-Tooth, the lions and the jackals, the wild dogs and the wolves, and all the hungry, meat-eating breeds. Lop-Ear got married. It was the second winter after our adventure-journey, and it was most unexpected.
"How does a horse neigh, Patsy?" asked a muffled voice, choking and chuckling at the same time. "'Nee, hee-hee hee; hee!" Uncle John tried to neigh, and made a sorry mess of it, although Bobby shrieked with delight. Then came a sudden hush. Diana caught the maid's voice, perhaps announcing the presence of a visitor, for Patsy cried in subdued accents: "Goodness me, Mary! why didn't you say so?
For a moment the little man blinked at me in amazement; then he threw back his head and laughed, a shrill, giggling squeak. With his fists he pounded his misshapen legs. "You arrest me for his murder? Hee-hee! You hear, Schreiber? He is going to to arrest me!" Suddenly he stopped, as quickly as he had started. "Go ahead! Arrest me! Try to send me to prison again.
"Oh, Mamsie!" she cried, as her teeth closed over it, "do just taste; it's so good!" "Hee-hee!" laughed Sarah, "I guess 'tis. Such works as I had to bake dat apple just right. But he's a beauty, ain't he, though?" Phronsie did not reply, being just at that moment engaged in conveying a morsel as much like her own as possible, to her mother's mouth.
David picked himself up from the barn floor, and hurrying out over the sill, began to dust his clothes, glad that Joel had not seen him tumble in. "I knocked him over," snickered Jim. "Hee-hee! Cry-baby!" and he pointed to little David, whose face was quite red as he tried to brush his best clothes clean again. "I'm not crying," said Davie, indignantly, and raising his hot face.
"Well," he said, "I wouldn't care to have it known, but if you can keep a secret " "Hee-hee!" tittered the other. "Now that's right smart, that be. Waren't expectin' nobody to meet you, was you? I ain't heerd of none of the folks lookin' for visitors." "No," said Madison. "But there's a hotel in the town, isn't there?" "Two of 'em," said the other.
"Ay that I do hee-hee, such doggery as there was in them ancient days, to be sure! Ah, the miles I used to walk then; and now I can hardly step over a furrow!" Their reminiscences were cut short by the appearance of the reunited pair Henchard looking round upon the idlers with that ambiguous gaze of his, which at one moment seemed to mean satisfaction, and at another fiery disdain.
"And dostn't mind how mother would sing, Christopher?" continued Mrs. Cuxsom, kindling at the retrospection; "and how we went with her to the party at Mellstock, do ye mind? at old Dame Ledlow's, farmer Shinar's aunt, do ye mind? she we used to call Toad-skin, because her face were so yaller and freckled, do ye mind?" "I do, hee-hee, I do!" said Christopher Coney.
Involuntarily she slipped from her left hand the symbol of her wifehood. 'Hee-hee! Well, the truth is, I wouldn't interrupt 'ee. "I reckon she don't see me, or won't see me," I said, "and what's the hurry? She'll see enough o' me soon!" I hope ye be well, mee deer?
The feelings of the young lady who had expressed her mind in so lively a manner Miss Miss ah yes, Craven Miss Amelia Craven did her all honour. "I will go with my husband," said Irma simply. "There's for you, Frances!" cried the Advocate, turning to his companion with a little teasing "hee-hee" of laughter, almost like the neigh of a horse; "there spoke all the woman."
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