Freddy's Cousin Weedly Quotes

“But I wouldn’t be here now,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “I’d rather be a cow. Oh, dear,” she said, “Every time I get a little excited the rhyming comes on again. I guess I’d better go lie down.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“So that was really Queen Elizabeth’s teapot,” said Mrs. Wiggins.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“My goodness, Freddy,” she said angrily. “That’s a fine thing to do! Come to visit a sick friend, and try to scare her to death! I must say—”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“You can count on me and my sisters three,” said Mrs. Wiggins.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Sister, who’s that? Is it the cat?” came Mrs. Wiggins’ voice from inside, followed by a deep sigh.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Thank you, my friends,” she said, “we have done what we could to give you some pleasure. You have been very good—” Here she broke off and said, “My goodness, I can’t stop talking poetry!” So she tried again. “I only wanted to mention that we’re grateful for your—” Then she stopped again. “Well, anyway,” she said quickly, “thanks!”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“But then they had never heard Mrs. Wiggins rebuke anyone so strongly before, for she was one of the mildest cows that ever lived, and cows as a class are extremely mild. There”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Just a minute,” interrupted Mrs. Wiggins in her deep booming voice, and Henrietta, who respected Mrs. Wiggins more than any other animal on the farm, stopped. “We all know how you feel, Henrietta,” she went on, “and we agree with you. But my land, there’s a time and place for everything. Aunt Effie, in giving this party, and we, in coming to it, agreed to forget about our differences for the afternoon. If you can’t do that, what did you come for?” Henrietta”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Tisn’t the same kind of politeness,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Mrs. Bean’s polite all the time. But Aunt Effie’s only polite when her etiquette book says she ought to be, and that’s when she’s having a party, or maybe when somebody else is being polite to her. I guess with her it’s just manners, and not real politeness.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“My goodness, she certainly was nice about it,” said Mrs. Wiggins to Freddy. “Maybe you’re right about her, after all.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“That’s so,” said Mrs. Wiggins with a laugh, and then she said: “My land, I mustn’t get to laughing, or I’ll shake this chair to pieces. Don’t you say anything funny, Freddy.” Uncle”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“It’s funny how something always seems to interrupt Charles’s speeches,” said Mrs. Wiggins to Freddy.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“That’s what we thought it was,” said the cow. “But it had some letters on it, and we didn’t know what they meant. We came down to ask you.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Keep still, Jinx,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “See here, Freddy; did you get some sort of a card from Aunt Effie?”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“I expect that’s so of all of us,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “We know how to be polite all right, but we just don’t take the trouble.” “Well,”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Wait a minute,” interrupted Mrs. Wiggins. “Today’s the day she gives us the teaparty. And it says here ‘four o’clock.’ Maybe it’s kind of an invitation, and that’s the time we’re to come.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Well,” said Mrs. Wiggins, “I don’t know much about letters, and that’s a fact. But I never saw one yet that wasn’t better left unopened. The way I figure it, Jinx, is that what I don’t know won’t hurt me. As long as it isn’t opened, I can think of lots of nice things it might be. But as soon as I open it, then it means I’ve got to do something. Even if it isn’t anything but answering it.” Jinx”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Now who would write me a letter?” she said.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Mrs. Wiggins said: “Well, we can’t ask any more in the way of an apology than that. We accept it.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Mrs. Wiggins said: “To tell you the truth, Jinx, we have been talking about Little Weedly. We don’t think he’s a very desirable person to have around this farm. We think you’d better send him back to his mother.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Well,” said Mrs. Wiggins, “I don’t think I agree with either of you. I don’t think Freddy has got any scheme up his sleeve. But on the other hand, I don’t think he’s making a mistake in being friendly with them. There are two things you can do if you have a disagreement with somebody. You can try to settle it by fighting, or you can try to settle it by being friendly with them. I don’t think we’d get anywhere by fighting with the Snedekers. They’d just take the teapot and walk off, and we couldn’t stop them. But if we make friends of them, they’re as likely as not to decide the teapot isn’t worth fighting about. As long as Aunt Effie feels we’re her enemies, she’s willing to fight with us. But if she feels we’re her friends, she might come to value our friendship more than she does the teapot.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Well, if you write about me that I look like an elephant, Freddy, it’ll be pretty mean of you, that’s all I can say. My land, I know I’m big and clumsy, but I don’t think it’s nice of my friends to make fun of me.” Freddy”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“But you might at least have the window washed,” said Mrs. Wiggins one day. “Why, you can’t even recognize your friends three feet away through that glass.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“But Mrs. Wiggins shook her head. “I don’t know, Jinx,” she said. “I’m willing to do anything within reason. But I can’t go cavorting off over the hills in hysterics every time I see him. How would it be if I just look startled?”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Mrs. Wiggins smiled, and if you have never seen a cow smile, you don’t know how large and comfortable and pleasant a smile can be. “I guess I did make quite a commotion,” she said.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“When you were a kitten,” said Mrs. Wiggins, “you were the worst nuisance on four legs. You were about as bashful as a pack of firecrackers, and just about as comfortable to have around.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“You’re not going to leave that little pig alone any longer,” said Mrs. Wiggins firmly. “You brought him here, and you’ve got to look after him. Though what you’re going to do with him, I’m sure I don’t know.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Maybe it is,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Maybe it is. I’m not much good at ideas myself, and that’s a fact. You mean, Freddy, that if there’s a hole in the barn roof, she’ll stay until she gets it mended?”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“We mustn’t let them get that teapot if we can help it,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “But I don’t see how we can help it. Even if one of us could get in and get it, he certainly couldn’t get out with it. Of course, I’m not very good at thinking up things. Maybe one of you animals has got an idea.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly

“Now, now,” put in Mrs. Wiggins good-naturedly, “one thing at a time. Are we discussing Charles’ shortcomings as a husband, or Jinx’s shortcomings as a guardian? What was this business, Jinx? You’ve got something important to tell us, I know.” “Yes, if you’ll let me tell it,” said Jinx grumpily.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy's Cousin Weedly