Cranky Joe led the 4X contingent and he did the talking for it without waste of time.
Boggs looked, very fixedly, and showed signs of apoplexy, and Cranky Joe returned to his end of the room to resume his soliloquy.
Their arrival and the manner of their speech riled Cranky Joe, who turned around and loosed one more remark; and he never knew how near to death he was at that moment.
Oh, no use getting all het up," rejoined Cranky Joe.
The herd's gettingcranky an' hard to hold--but when we pass the creek everything'll be all right again.
At noon Cranky Joe could stand the strain no longer and opened the door just a little to relive the monotony.
Cranky Joe regarded him with pity and reproach, and moved back towards the other end of the room, muttering softly to himself.
He escaped with his life and checked himself at the side of Cranky Joe, with whom he conferred on the harshness of the world towards unfortunates.
They were thoroughly tired out and their tempers were not in the sweetest state imaginable, for the heat during the last four days had been almost unbearable even to them and they had had their hands full with the cranky herd.
Chase yoreselves--me an' Pete are shore going to show you cranky bugs how to do a hundred an hour.
My dear old chap, when they called you cranky I always said that there was more in you than they might think, and I stand to it to the present moment.
Why, of course, it's the doctor--the cranky old doctor.
I believe that, with one of his cranky notions to be revenged on her for the part she'd played, he communicated his intention to her; that he went so far as to instruct her to draw up such a form of will as he required.
My husband has felt all discouraged, so many babies, so much hard work, such hard times to get a dollar, always in debt to doctors; it made us both grow cross and cranky and just as soon die as live.
Last but not least," laughingly added Jerry, "the cranky old tub of a boat leaks again like a sieve, and some of us ought to get busy patching it up while we have a chance.
Before the words were out of his mouth the cranky canoe went over.
It was a cranky affair, and likely to turn over if their hair was not parted exactly in the middle; but both of the boys were used to canoe management, and they decided to risk the thing.
Well, as I said, fourteen of them started into the scrub to collect the party and bring them up to the fire; only old Cranky Jim sat still in the camp.
No; Elsy is good enough for me, and I'm not very badly off, and begin to fancy I would like some better sort of welcome in the evening than what a cranky old brute of a hutkeeper can give me.
Whence you infer that, if my son has not for years been doing cranky acts, he is not likely to be deranged at present.
The shouts of the fellows who wielded the oars in the leading boat came floating back to those who were still scrambling around in the cranky outlaw craft.
But looky here, Billy, how does it come you're in this cranky boat?
He promises never to get in this cranky canoe again.
Cat: Punishment enough he'll find In his cross and cranky mind.
The name of the play in that first scenario was "The Fault-Finder," but my cranky Conan broke from that narrowness.
Diane went back with her to the deserted Westfall house in St. Augustine, with the green mould and the cobwebs and cranky spiders and the croquet set in the cellar.
Ach, if she wasn't so cranky I'd be glad still when she comes, but you know how she acts all the time.
Catch us coming again in the Cranky Jane when once we're safe ashore!
After we passed all the ice, the wind came round, as the captain said it would, right favourable for our course; and the Cranky Jane behaved like a good one.
In spite of Cap'en Jiggins' praise, I never sailed in such an out-and- out obstinate craft as that identical Cranky Jane.
No schoolboy ever drew a truer circle with a bit of string and a slate-pencil than that cranky craft made on the placid surface of the river each time Ramrod put a little extra strength into his stroke.
A few yards' extra leeway would enable him to steer his cranky craft to the desired spot.
He could pull an oar with the strongest, and on the baseball field could tantalise a crack batsman with cranky balls.
I've known ye fer years, Iky, as a square man, even though ye are cranky at times.
Slipping back to the stern to even up the down-by-the-head trim Rona's presence in the bow gave the cranky dugout, I plied the stubby paddle with all the strength and skill at my command.
I can still see the run of muscles under the olive-silk skin of arm and ankle, and the bent-bow arch of her slender back, as she gave a last push to the cranky outrigger.
You seem rather cranky this morning, but I forgive you; it is trying to the spirits to leave one's native place for good and all.
He always was stubborn as an off ox and cranky as a windlass.
He lived alone up there in the big house, except for a cranky housekeeper and two or three servants.
Well, I was telling the first lies and then when I was going to tell him that I knew that I was telling wrong he acted so cranky and said such things to me.
