24 Metaphors for kidding

" "The kid's a mascot," pronounced Marco in his heavy, earnest way.

Th' Ramblin' Kid is passin' 'em!"

But 'Frisco Kid was more expert, and his fish tumbled into the cockpit first.

The Frenchman's eyes were glistening with admiration for such perfect seamanship, and 'Frisco Kid's were likewise moist.

She knew, when he caressed her muzzle and pressed the last lump of sugar into her mouth, before he turned away to the bunk-house, that the Ramblin' Kid was not only her master but her friend as wellunderstanding and sympathetic.

He discovered that 'Frisco Kid was as good a cook as he was a sailor, and made haste to do justice to the fare.

Parker, Charley, Chuck, Bert were gone to Chicago with steers; the Ramblin' Kid was gonenobody knew where; Skinny's dream about Carolyn June was goneshe didn't love him, she just liked him; even his whisky was gone, he had given it to the hostler at the barn; he didn't have any friends or anything.

" Good night, that kid was the limit!

"'If you knew Jerry better you wouldn't force yourself on him,' says I. "'Son,' says this fresh kid" "Is this the way you talk to Smith?" broke in Mark.

When, his kids shall have become goats, when the epoch of domesticity shall have arrived for them, when they shall have contracted habits of tameness, when they have learned to recognize his voice, then, and then only, will he permit them to wander and browse on the neighboring hills, under the direction of a vigilant guardian.

"Your life's your own to make what you please of, now that the kid's no longer a factor," he said quietly.

" "Well, he'd better be careful; kids can be too smart Aleck.

Th' Ramblin' Kid is passin' 'em!"

"The kid is asleepin the office," he whispered to the collector.

"Wonder where the Ramblin' Kid is" "S-h-hh!

"That kid is half fish," Doc Carson said to me.

Honest, that kid is a scream.

The kids was game, and they took him quick.

"Will you withdraw the entry?" asked the Woman, who realized perfectly that Kid had been the mainstay and inspiration, as a great leader must be, of the whole Derby Team.

I can't see that there was any mystery about it, but there was another kind of a mystery, believe me, and that kid was the cause of it.

The Ramblin' Kid and the lonely Navajo were friends since the Ramblin' Kid could remember.

" "This kid is an impostor!" shouted the detective.

"Every scrape you ever enticed me into as a kid was always my fault somehow.

That Blake kid is the worst of the bunch.

24 Metaphors for  kidding