He'd have gone out again after those boys if we hadn't.

I don't know WHAT to make of him!" "He's a mystery to ME!" said her husband.

"And he refuses to explain why he objects to being called 'little gentleman.' Says he'd do the same thing--and worse--if anybody dared to call him that again.

He said if the President of the United States called him that he'd try to whip him.
How long did you have him locked up in the closet ?" "SH!" said Mrs.Schofield warningly.

"About two hours; but I don't think it softened his spirit at all, because when I took him to the barber's to get his hair clipped again, on account of the tar in it, Sammy Williams and Maurice Levy were there for the same reason, and they just WHISPERED 'little gentleman,' so low you could hardly hear them--and Penrod began fighting with them right before me, and it was really all the barber and I could do to drag him away from them.