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Yet I've heard him tell a room full of reporters angling for a "success" story that he'd be ashamed to tell them the truth that they wouldn't believe it, that it wasn't one story but four, that the public would not want to read about a man who had been walloped into prominence. It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.
You see I had a father and a mother, and my father wasn't of much account for he drinked like a fish. Then he walloped us all round, and come pretty near killin' the whole of us like he did mother." "Killed your mother, the wretch! what did you let him do it for?" asked one of the girls excitedly. "Couldn't help it Miss; but I'm comin' to that.
Taking Robert aside, he said: "I dun tole yer, Mass Robert, dat a calamity war comin'. It am come De Missus am married to dat fellah wat ye walloped wid de stick. Hi! but I wish ye kill um." The long journey to Jamestown was made.
"You never told me you knew Courtlandt," said Harrigan, speaking to Abbott. "Just happened that way. We went to school together. When I was little they used to make me wear curls and wide collars. Many's the time Courtlandt walloped the school bullies for mussing me up. I don't see him much these days. Once in a while he walks in. That's all.
Above the high wood dado runs a row of illuminated pictures of animals, ducks, pigeons, peacocks, calves, lambs, colts, and almost everything else that goes upon two or four feet; so that the children can, by simply turning in their seats, stroke the heads of their dumb friends of the meadow and barnyard.... There are a great quantity of bright and appropriate pictures on the walls, three windows full of plants, a canary chirping in a gilded cage, a globe of gold-fish, an open piano, and an old-fashioned sofa, which is at present adorned with a small scrap of a boy who clutches a large slate in one hand, and a mammoth lunch-pail in the other.... It is his first day, and he looks as if his big brother had told him that he would be "walloped" if he so much as winked.
Them was the great days for fightin'! The Husshons was the biggest men I ever seen on the field, most of 'em standin' six feet eight in their stockin's, but Lord! how we walloped 'em! Once we had a cannon mounted an' loaded for 'em that was so large we had to draw the ball into it with a yoke of oxen!" Bill paused from force of habit, just as he had paused for the last twenty years.
Barty Burt, you are one of small fishes, it is true; but, for all that, you needn't be walloped about at this rate, and bamboozled, and swallowed entirely up by the big ones of this court-and-king party.
He admitted to himself that he had fanned out, but still the knowledge brought him some comfort. "He's walloped me so," Cappy soliloquized, "he just can't help writing and crowing about it. If I didn't do anything else I bet I've pried a letter out of him. It certainly will be a comfort to see something except a telegram and a statement of account from that fellow."
"Did yer see them little fingers uv hern a-holdin' out that pan? did yer see her, fellers?" inquired an excited miner. "Yes, an' the way she made that dirt git, ez though she was useder to washin' than wallopin'," said another. "Wallopin'!" echoed a staid miner. "I'd gie my claim, an' throw in my pile to boot, to be a young 'un an' git walloped by them playthings of han's."
Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder." She shuddered. "I wouldn't care," he began, "only I spent my last shillings on the railway fare and my last twopence on a shave out of respect for the old man." "Are you really Harry Hagberd?" she asked. "Can you prove it?" "Can I prove it?
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