Freddy Goes to Florida Quotes

“But the first thing,” she continued, “is to find out where Charles and Henrietta are, and the second thing is to find where the money is; then we can make a plan. Has anybody anything to suggest?”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Poor thing” said Mrs. Wiggins. “But we’ll get him out, if we have to tear the whole house down with our horns and claws and beaks and hoofs! Won’t we, animals?”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“I’m sorry, Alice,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “I’m afraid I used it all up. There’s so much of me to powder,”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“She had hung an emerald necklace on each horn, and they hung down and bobbed and dangled beside her broad, pleasant face like enormous ear-rings. And she had powdered her wide, black nose until it was as white as flour. She looked truly reckless. Alice,”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“I’m all of a flutter!” she said. “Oh my, oh my! Just put your hoof on my side and feel how my heart beats, Hank. What a dreadful experience!” But”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“All honest people are abed by this time of night,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Whoever it is is up to no good. Hank, you and I had better stay here, and the other animals can sneak up to the house and see what those people are up to.” So”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“You’ll laugh out of the other side of your mouth, young man, if I catch you,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “You knew it wouldn’t come off all the time.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“I’m not going to have anybody laughing himself into a fit on my account,” she said. And after that”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Well, I for one shall be glad to get back,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “We’ve had a grand time travelling, but home’s a pretty good place.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“But like most cows, she had a stout heart, and she turned round and lowered her horns and shook them threateningly at the alligators. “Keep away, now!” she said. “We won’t stand any nonsense!” But”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“It won’t help any to call names,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Come along, let’s try this direction. One way is as good as another, and this looks as if it might be right.” And”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“I can’t go another step!” she said. “I’m in a dripping perspiration. Charles, I’d take it kindly if you’d fan me with your wing for a few minutes.” So”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Come, come,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “Stop your fighting, animals. If there are swallows in that chimney, it means that there hasn’t been a fire built in the house in a long time. And that means that nobody lives there. Let’s get inside.” Bang,”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Well, there’s no use quarrelling about it,” said Mrs. Wiggins. “If there’s a house, there’s a barn, and if there’s a barn, maybe we can get into it, out of the rain. I’m going along.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Well,” said Mrs. Wiggins with a sigh, as she dropped off to sleep that night, “we certainly had a grand time. But I do wish I knew what a constituent is.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“I don’t suppose we’ll ever see them again. I hope this will be a lesson to me—cutting up silly didos on the bank like a two-weeks-old calf!”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Well,” said Mrs. Wiggins at last, “I guess they’re gone. They won’t drown—that’s a comfort. They’ll float down and land somewhere, but the current is pretty swift, and they may go miles before they can get ashore.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“me!” she exclaimed. “Where are Mr. and Mrs. Webb? They were sitting on my head when I fell in.” She”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Here I am,” she said, “down among the fishes where I wanted to be. Nothing like having your wishes come true.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“and there she was, sitting in the river with the water up to her neck. The”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Mrs. Wiggins was very much interested in the diving. “I do wish I could do that,” she said. “Just think how exciting it must be to be down among the fishes and see all the queer things that grow on the bottom, and look up at the sky through the green water!”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Mrs. Wiggins thought some more, and then she said: “I’ve got it! Suppose you spin a web between my horns! Then you’ll have it with you all day, and you can catch plenty of flies.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Mrs. Wiggins was a character. That means that when she did anything, she always did it in a little different way than anyone else would have done. And she did a good many things that nobody else would ever have thought of.”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“bellowed with laughter until the tears ran down her cheeks, and the man with the black moustache shivered with fear. Mrs. Wiggins was very fond of a joke. Pretty”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida

“Good gracious, what a silly question, cat! The roosters would never get up at all in the morning if the hens started to crow. They'd loaf round and sleep all day. They do little enough as it is. But at least they're out of the hen house early in the morning so their wives can get some work done. H'm! Crow indeed!”
― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Goes to Florida