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"Pies like mother used to make," he announced to the loft as he slipped the magazine full of .45-70'S. "An' pills like popper used to take," he continued when he had lowered the level of the water in his flask. He rolled a cigarette and tossed the match into the air, extinguishing it by a shot from his Colt. "Got any cigarettes, Hoppy?" said a voice from below.
Over the mantel, in front of Barbara as she stood, her back to us all, hung an oil painting one of those family groups same old popper; same old mommer, and a fat baby in a white dress and blue sash. At that, it was good enough to show that the man had some resemblance to Vandeman as he leaned there on the mantel below it, rather encouraging Skeet's enterprise.
I wasn't never much for dress, and give her Popper coat and pants, twuz all he wanted. But Emma ef you want to make her happy tie a bow onto suthin'." Mrs. Tuttle nodded with ostentatious understanding. Rising, she seized Romeo's cage and placed it more conspicuously near her. She was critically watched by the older women.
Alan Hawke dropped suddenly from the clouds as the practical Miss Genie led the way to the breakfast rendezvous, cheerfully demonstrating her own bold ideas of social freedom by remarking: "Say! what's the matter with a little day's run up to Chillon? Phenie is game for anything! You just get that other English Lord and we will dodge Popper and Mommer."
I was aghast, for I have always prided myself upon my youthful appearance. "'If you call me "popper" again, said I in a savage undertone, 'I will throw you overboard! Do you hear? How dare you speak to me anyway? I have a great mind to call an officer! Come now, girls, I added in a milder strain, aware of the helplessness of the situation, 'let's go below; and keep quiet, do.
"Miss Sieppe, Miss Sieppe, your ticket has won five thousand dollars," cried Maria. "Don't you remember the lottery ticket I sold you in Doctor McTeague's office?" "Trina!" almost screamed her mother. "Five tausend thalers! five tausend thalers! If popper were only here!" "What is it what is it?" exclaimed McTeague, rolling his eyes. "What are you going to do with it, Trina?" inquired Marcus.
The lights were switched off, all except one sixteen-candle-power lamp in the farthest corner, shaded by a deep-red globe. It was just light enough to see to read very, large print with difficulty. Mrs. Popper began immediately with the table. Kennedy and I sat on her right and left respectively, in the circle, and held her hands and feet.
At last the sound of wheels was heard, and Mrs. Popper drove up in a hansom, accompanied by Farrington. They both inspected the room narrowly and seemed satisfied. I had, as I have said, taken a serious dislike to the man, and watched him closely. I did not like his air of calm assurance.
"Good! good!" cried several; and when the vote was taken, Stuffy's proposal carried the day. Some went to the cellar for apples, some to the garret for nuts, and others looked up the popper and the corn. "We had better ask the girls to come in, hadn't we?" said Demi, in a sudden fit of politeness. "Daisy pricks chestnuts beautifully," put in Nat, who wanted his little friend to share the fun.
Bean sympathetically. "Well, then, Mabel Hutch and her Popper took against poor little Hetty. Old man Hutch he died and left everything to Mabel, and she never goes near her own sister!" Mrs. Bean raised gray-cotton gloved hands signifying horror. "St st st !" she deplored. She searched in her reticule for more calamus-root. "He didn't leave her nothing?" "No, ma'am! This one!"
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