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Daniels got his "old girl" in as good shape as ever, and once when he was up in my office he told me he had hoped that old 341 would get on the rampage that day I took her out and "kick the stuffin'" out of that train and every one on it.
"Herm; likes th' light, but a drumstick for mine an' please don't forget th' stuffin', Geoff!" "Tea, Mr. Geoffrey?" "Thanks!" he answered, pausing to watch the curve of her shapely neck as she bent to pour the tea, and to note how her white hand grasped the battered teapot, little finger delicately poised. "Say, Geoff get busy!" said Spike wistfully.
"If by Geraldine you mean Herm-Intrude," said Palmerston, sitting up in bed and grinning, "she's out in the grounds, picking " "Culling," corrected Fancy. "Her own word." "Well then culling lamb mint." "I should ha' thought sage-an'-onions was the stuffin' relied on by this establishment." "Seasonin'," corrected Palmerston. "But what have you been doin' all this time?" "My dear, don't ask!"
Bemus, she says, 'I wonder if you'd mind takin' an old newspaper there's one somewheres around an' stuffin' in the cracks of this window an' stop its rattlin'?
I'd like to cut the gizzard outen the rascal that bored the hole in that bar'l!" "I declare, old pard; that was mean!" said Si, who stood looking on, with his hands in his trousers pockets, the very picture of innocence. "I'm jist goin' to flax 'round 'n' help ye find that feller. If I was you I'd pound the stuffin' out of him when ye cotch him!"
"As to them two roosters," she explained, "I did think I'd name the big handsome one John Hancock and the littlest one George Three. They didn't like each other, ma'am, that was plain at the start, so I thought they'd ought to be on different sides. But the very first fight they had George pretty near licked the stuffin' out of John, so I've decided to change the names around.
"How long you been here, Billy?" asked the other boy. "Well, I don't know perxactly, but I been to Sunday-School four times. I got engaged to Miss Cecilia that very firs' Sunday, but she didn' know it tell I went over to her house the nex' day an' tol' her 'bout it. She say she think my hair is so pretty." "Pretty nothin'," sneered his rival. "She jus' stuffin' you fuller 'n a tick with hot air.
Oh, I saw my father reported that my eyes were bulging; but I shook my head stubbornly and said: "I ain't a-goin' to tell you because you're laughin' at me. I seen lots an' lots of men killed there. They nailed 'em up, an' it took a long time. I seen but I ain't a-goin' to tell. I don't tell lies. You ask dad an' ma if I tell lies. He'd whale the stuffin' out of me if I did. Ask 'm."
No, sir, I'll never do that." Gallup clenched his fist and pushed it up under Ephraim's nose. "Ye'll take it or Oi'll knock the stuffin' out av yez!" he said. "Ye'll take it or ye'll have a doctor to bind up yer wounds. Thot's sittled. Come, now, let's go back to the house and make belave we're happy. To-morrow we'll play baseball loike the divvil himsilf!"
Really? Choc'late cake's awful good for you. I love chocolate cake. This here cake was made by Esther Coombe's Aunt Amy it's a sure winner! Say, Mister, what do you like anyway?" "Ever so many more things than I did yesterday. By Jove, that chicken looks good!" "Yep. That's Mrs. Hallard's chicken. I thought you'd want the best. She ris' it herself. And made the stuffin' too."
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