“_I wish the boys’d get up. Here I’ve had breakfast ready an hour._” ]
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“_The President has been on the trail of a grizzly for four days._” —NEWS ITEM. ]
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“_Come on, boys! I’ve got ’em cornered._” ]
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“_Every time I think of her, I have the queerest feeling, kind o’ like a painless stomach ache, only not so much. I wonder why?_” ]
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“_No, honest, cross my heart, you’re the first girl I ever said it to._” ]
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“_For the land’s sake, child, what ails you, anyway. How many times must I call you to come to your supper?_” ]
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“_Some day she’ll be sorry she treated me this away. I’ll go ’way and make lots o’ money and come back here riding in a carriage with four white horses, and when she tries to ketch my eye I’ll pertend I never seen her before._” ]
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“_That ought to be ‘El Colonel’ instead of ‘El Capitan.’ Oughtn’t it?_” ]
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“_Magnificent! It looks like the tented field of a Titan Host! It’s the most beautiful view I’ve ever seen—Not an office seeker in sight!_” ]
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THE PRESIDENT: “I’M HAVING A DELIGHTFUL TIME HERE IN CHICAGO, BUT I MISS MY DAILY EXERCISE”
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“_I remind myself of Napoleon before the Sphinx. I wonder if it can tell me who will be the next President of the U.S.A.?_” ]
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“_No wonder the Japs make good soldiers. They’ve certainly solved the transportation problem all right._” ]
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“_Just look how much I saved for the Fourth. Ma give me a dime ’n I sold a copper boiler to Johnson Bros. for twelve cents. I got sixteen cents for picking cherries for Mrs. Oliver, ’n a nickel for carrying a note for Mr. Hornbeck, ’n fi’ cents I got for picking potato bugs for Mrs. Oliver, ’n ten cents for finding Mr. Griswold’s cow. And I’m gunna spend it all for shootin’ crackers and fire ’em all off just for you._” ]