Freddy and the Popinjay Quotes

“Mrs. Wiggins said she didn’t like weddings: they always made her cry. “And when I cry,” she said, “there’s no use trying to go on with the ceremony until I stop.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Sulphur and molasses—that’s what he needs. There isn’t an idea that a good dose of sulphur and molasses won’t cure.” And she went on to tell of boys she had known of who, thoroughly dosed with sulphur and molasses every spring, had been completely free from ideas all the rest of their lives. While”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“I’ve said before and I’ll say it again,” said Mrs. Wiggins flatly, “that all these ideas aren’t healthy.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“I agree with you,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “I think Freddy probably needs a good dose of sulphur and molasses to tone him up a little.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“When I was a piglet, the grass was much greener, Always looked as if it had just come from the cleaner, And life was much gayer, in so many ways. Ah, those were the days! Now I’m old, and my joints are increasingly creaky; My hearing is poor, and my memory’s leaky; And I weep as I put down these sad little rhymes. Ah, those were the times! In my youth, I was always prepared for a frolic; I never had pains, rheumatism or colic; I never had aches: head, stomach or tooth. Ah, the days of my youth! “Good land, Freddy, you sound as if you were about ninety years old,” Mrs. Wiggins said with a laugh.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“You remember, Freddy,” said Mrs. Wiggins, climbing out and shaking herself, “the games we used to play in the pond when the two boys were here? Remember the water polo games?” Freddy”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Presently Mrs. Wiggins’s head reappeared. “How’s that, Freddy?” she spluttered. “You and your swan dives! I bet you couldn’t do one like that. I bet no swan could dive hind end first, either.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Land sakes!” said Mrs. Wiggins. “There’s nothing much to that! I’ll wager I can do as good.” And before anybody could stop her, she was out at the end of the springboard. “Three jumps, and then up I go. One … two …” Crash!”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“It’s me, thinking I’m one thing, and really being something else; that’s what makes it funny. It would be just as funny to me if it was you.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“I must say, I don’t see what fun you get out of it,” Freddy said. “I don’t either, Freddy, but I do,” said the cow. “It just tickles me when I think I’m floating around all cool and pretty like a lump of ice cream in an ice cream soda, and then plunk!—my back hits the bottom.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Each time, I think: ‘Now this time, Wiggins, you’ll stay up.’ It seems so easy. And then down I go!” And she began to laugh again.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“You oughtn’t to go in swimming when you’re alone,” Freddy said. “You might have drowned.” “I suppose I might have, at that,” said the cow. “But it’s such fun when I think I’m going to float, and then I just sink.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“I find,” she said in such a dignified way that all the others stopped laughing at once, “that I am unable to attend the committee meeting. I therefore appoint Henrietta in my place.” The”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“The committee will now adjourn upstairs for an hour, and when we have reached a decision we will come down and tell you about it.” So”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“So she said: “Since we don’t seem to be getting anywhere, I will appoint Freddy and Jinx and myself as a committee of three to decide on what course to take.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Now I’ll take you in order, and you’ll each have a minute to talk; we don’t want to be here all night. You first, young chipmunk—yes, you in the front row.” Even”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Good grief,” she said, “we’ll never get anywhere this way! If we could drive that boy away with talk, he’d be in China by now.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“But I must say, I don’t know what we can do. Has anybody any suggestions?” Well”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Mrs. Wiggins nodded. “Quite right,” she said. “It’s Mr. Bean’s land, and we have a right there. Besides, there are a lot of you rabbits and woodchucks that live near the fence, and you aren’t to be driven from your homes.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Now of course we can keep out of trouble by staying away from the side of the farm by the Witherspoon property—”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Anyway, we animals always settle our own quarrels without dragging Mr. Bean into it. Now if Peter were here, he could take that boy in hand without any fuss. A bear is about the only animal that his stones wouldn’t hurt. But as you know, Peter is spending some weeks with relatives in Herkimer County. “Now of course we can keep out of trouble by staying away from the side of the farm by the”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Henrietta’s right,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “We mustn’t do anything foolish. We can’t do much to that boy without getting Mr. Bean into trouble with Mr. Witherspoon.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Maybe I pushed you, Hank,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “I was pushing pretty hard in my mind. Anyway, you did just right.” And the other animals agreed. But”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“The slingshot?” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Georgie’s got it. We’re going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you’re the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go—” She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay

“Oh, never mind that, Emma,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Alice, what’ll we do with this boy? You’re the one that was hit. You’re the one to decide on his punishment.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Popinjay