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"By soodherin' him by ticklin' his empty pride by dwellin' on the ould blood of Ireland, the great Fermanagh Maguires or by tellin' him that he's betther than any one else, and could do what nobody else could." "Could you make him drunk to-night?" asked Shannon.
We stood there in the dark whispering, and then Bill couldn't stand it any longer, and 'e went over on tiptoe to the bunk ag'in. He was tremblin' with excitement and I wasn't much better, when all of a sudden the cook sat up in 'is bunk with a dreadful laughing scream and called out that somebody was ticklin' 'im.
He told me all about it," cried Dick. "Say," he declared, "I dunno 's I ever see the old man more kind o' womble-cropped over anythin'. Why, he wouldn't no more 'a' passed them bills 'n he'd 'a' cut his hand off. He, he, he, he! He was jest ticklin' your heels a little," said Mr. Larrabee, "to see if you'd kick, an'," chuckled the speaker, "you surely did."
Some men are born, you see, wi' narves that are for ever screwin' at 'em, an' ticklin' of 'em up; an' other men have narves that always keep smoothin' of 'em down. The last are the pleasantest to have to do with, no doubt, but the others ain't quite so bad as they look sometimes. Their bark is worse than their bite."
"No, but I was tickled," said Flossie. "The hay did tickle me in my nose, and I wanted to sneeze." "But I wouldn't let her!" explained Freddie. "I held my hand over her nose so she couldn't sneeze." "I tried hard so I wouldn't," said Flossie, "and Freddie helped me. It feels awful funny not to sneeze when you want to. It tickles!" "And the hay tickled me," went on Freddie. "It's ticklin' me now.
All them fellers them fellers that was blind an' wrote books an' give lecturin's an' made things perfectly wonderful things with their hands how much do you s'pose they would have done if they'd had a woman 'round who said, 'Here, let me do it; oh, you mustn't do that, Keithie, dear! every time they lifted a hand to brush away a hair that was ticklin' their nose?" "Oh, Susan!" "Well, it's so.
Having duly fitted on these clumsy things and buttoned them well under our coat collars, having shown us how we must breathe out through the mouthpiece which acts as a kind of exhaust, our sub. donned his own headpiece, through which his cheery voice reached me in muffled tones: "You'll feel a kind of ticklin' feelin' in the throat at first, but that's all O.K. only the chemical the flannel's saturated with.
Most of the men that camp with me are like Injuns, anyway they wouldn't feel natural without bugs a ticklin' 'em. No, child, you get ready and pull out on the Sulphur stage to-morrow. I'll pay your way back to Philadelphy." "I can't leave you now, mother. Now that I know you're ill, I'm going to stay and take care of you." Lize rose. "See here, girl, don't you go to idealizin' me, neither.
"M' caugh wouldn't let me sleep last night. A gol-dum leetle, nasty, ticklin' caugh, too; but it kept me awake, fact was, an' well, m' wife, she said I hadn't better come. But don't you worry, sir; it won't happen again, sir; no, sir." His hands got stiffer year by year, and his simple tunes became practically a series of squeaks and squalls.
Nor was he alone; the jig had started a dozen on the instant; and the floor rattled and rang with the tap of toe and heel. "Henry," said the old Trapper, "hold on to me or I shall sartinly make a fool of myself. The Lad is ticklin' me from head to foot, and my toes are snappin' inside of the moccasins.
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