Цитаты из книги автора O.Henry The Ransom of Red Chief and other stories

hitched the horse

tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser.

two-legged skyrocket of a kid

send a peremptory letter

I was only funning

sylvan attitude of somnolent sleepiness

dashed hither and yon

the sturdy yeomanry of the village armed with scythes and pitchforks beating the countryside for the dastardly kidnappers

ran my eye over the contiguous vicinity

to get a little imp like that back home